Malcolm Schofield

Malcolm Schofield (born April 19, 1942 ) is a British classical philologist and historian of philosophy with a focus on ancient philosophy .

After positions at Cornell University (as Assistant Professor of the Classics, 1967–1969) and the University of Oxford (as Dyson Research Fellow in Greek Culture at Balliol College , 1970–1972), he came in 1972 as a Lecturer in Classics and as a Fellow of the St John's College at the University of Cambridge . In 1989 he was appointed Reader in Ancient Philosophy and in 1998 Professor of Ancient Philosophy. Since 2009 he has been an emeritus professor in Cambridge.

In 1997 he was accepted into the British Academy (FBA). In 2018 Schofield was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Research focuses on the political thought of antiquity and the philosophy of Cicero .

Fonts (selection)

• Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC. New directions for philosophy. Cambridge 2013.
• Plato: Political Philosophy. Oxford 2006.
• (Ed., With Christopher Rowe): The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. Cambridge 2000.
• Saving the City. Routledge 1999.
• (Eds., With Keimpe Algra , Jonathan Barnes , Jaap Mansfeld ): The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge 1999.
• The Stoic Idea of ​​the City. Cambridge 1991; expanded edition Chicago 1999.
• (Eds., With Geoffrey S. Kirk and John Earle Raven ): The Presocratic Philosophers. 2nd edition, Cambridge 1983.
• (Eds., With Myles Frederic Burnyeat and Jonathan Barnes): Doubt and Dogmatism. Oxford 1980.
• An Essay on Anaxagoras. Cambridge 1980.

Web links

• Website at the University of Cambridge
• Website at St John's College, Cambridge
• Website at the British Academy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Malcolm Schofield. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , July 2018, accessed October 10, 2019 .