Faculty

• Socrates and the State (Princeton UP: 1984).
• Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton UP: 1989).
• Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, translation with commentary (Clarendon: 1997).
• Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Oxford UP: 2002)
• What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (Harvard UP: 2007).
• How to Read Plato (Granta Books: 2008).

Books Edited

• The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge, 1992).
• Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
• Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (with Steven Skultety, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
• The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006)

Selected articles and recent work

• "Two Conceptions of Happiness," The Philosophical Review 88 (1979), pp. 167-197. (Reprinted in Louis P. Pojman, ed., Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings , Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1989; also in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993, and in T.I. Irwin, ed., Articles on Greek and Roman Philosophy, Garland Publishing Inc.
• "The Defense of Justice in Plato's Republic ," in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato , Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 311-337.
• "Desire and the Human Good," Presidential Address, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68:2 (Nov. 1994), pp. 39-54. Reprinted in Value, Morality, and the Good Life, Paul Moser/Thomas Carson (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1996.
• "Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521," In Oxford Readings in Philosophy: Plato: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, ed. by Gail Fine, Oxford University Press, 1999
• "Socrates," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th rev. ed., 2003.
• "Doing Without Morality: Reflections on the Meaning of Dein in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, May 2006, pp. 169-200.
• "How to Justify Ethical Propositions", in Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, (2006, pp. 76-95).
• "The Examined Life", Sara Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates. Blackwell (2006, pp. 228-42).

Current CV

• CURRENT CV

Recently Taught Courses

• PHIL 420: Seminar in Ancient Philosophy (Aristotle's Ethics) (Fall 2003)
• PHIL 401-2-20: Proseminar (1st-Yr Grad Students Only) : "Plato" (Spring 2003)
• PHIL 401-2-20: Proseminar (1st-Yr Grad Students Only) : "Plato" (Winter 2003)