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David Neil Sedley (born 30 May 1947) is the seventh Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University.
 
Sedley was educated at Trinity College, Oxford where he was awarded a first class honours degree in Literae Humaniores in 1969.
 
He was awarded a PhD in 1974 by University College London for a text, translation and commentary on Book XXVIII of Epicurus' On Nature.
 
Since 1976 Sedley has been a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
 
From 1996 he was Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University before in July 2000 being elevated to the Laurence Professorship of Ancient Philosophy.
 
He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University (September 1981 - March 1982), University of California, Berkeley (1984 and 2004), Yale University (1990), and Cornell University (2001).
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 1994.[1]

Publications

The Hellenistic Philosophers (with A. A. Long), Cambridge 1987
 
LUCREZIO
Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Cambridge 1998
 
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, Cambridge 2003
 
Plato's Cratylus, Cambridge 2003
 
The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus, Oxford 2004
  • Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2007
  • Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155-86 BC (edited with A.M. Ioppolo), Naples, 2007

[edit] References

  1. ^ British Academy fellowship record
Academic offices
Preceded by
Gisela Striker
Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy Cambridge University
2000 -
Succeeded by
incumbent
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