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James Allen, Professor
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
PhD, Princeton, 1988
James Allen is professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has held a visiting appointment at Yale, been a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Stipendiat of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Universität Hamburg. His principal interests are in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is the author of articles about ancient conceptions of expertise, ancient skepticism, ancient medicine, Aristotelian logic, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cicero and Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence (Oxford, 2001).
Select Publications
"The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology," in Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium Hellenisticum, ed. D. Frede, B. Inwood (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 14-35.
"Experience as a Source and Ground of Theory in Epicureanism," in Re-inventions: essays on Hellenistic and early Roman science (Apeiron 37), ed. P. Lang (Academic Printing and Publishing, 2004), 89-106.
Inference from signs: ancient debates about the nature of evidence (Oxford University Press, 2001).
“Carneadean argument in Cicero's Academic books” in Assent and argument: studies in Cicero's Academic books Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenisticum, ed. J. Mansfeld, B. Inwood (Brill, 1997), 217-256.
"Academic Probabilism and Stoic Epistemology," Classical Quarterly, N.S. 44 (i) (1994), 85- 113.
"Failure and Expertise in the Ancient Conception of an Art," in Scientific Failure, ed. A. Janis, T. Horowitz (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), 83-110.
