Tad Brennan

Tad Brennan , actually Theodore Brennan (born June 15, 1962 ) is an American historian of philosophy and classical philologist .

Brennan studied Classics and Philosophy at Reed College in Portland , Oregon . He then completed a PhD in Classical Philosophy at Princeton . After various posts he was Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University , since then he has held a professorship in ancient philosophy in the Department of Classics and the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University .

Research focuses on the Hellenistic philosophy ( Epicureans , Stoics and Skeptics ), but also the pre-Socratics Anaxagoras , Aristotle and his logical theories, Sextus Empiricus and Simplikios .

Fonts (selection)

• Rachel Barney , Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain (Eds.): Plato and the Divided Self. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 0-521-89966-4
• The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2005. Review by Andrew Smith, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 05.45.2006
• Simplicius: On Epictetus, Handbook 1-26 . Translated by Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain. 2002, Cornell University Press: ISBN 0-8014-3904-3 , and Duckworth, London: ISBN 0-7156-3068-7
• Simplicius: On Epictetus, Handbook 27-53. Translated by Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain. 2002, Cornell University Press: ISBN 0-8014-3905-1 , and Duckworth, London: ISBN 0-7156-3069-5
• Immortality in ancient philosophy . In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Routledge, London 2002, online
• Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus . Garland, London, 1999, ISBN 0-8153-3659-4 .

Web links

• Personal page, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University
• Page on VIVO, Cornell University
• academia.edu