Luca Castagnoli

College Oriel College

Area of Specialisation Ancient Philosophy

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Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Oriel College

luca.castagnoli@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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2015 - present	Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
2007 - 2015	Lecturer/Senior Lecturer of Ancient Philosophy, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University
2004 - 2007	Henry Lumley Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge
2005	Ph.D. University of Cambridge (Classics)
2000	Laurea University of Bologna (Philosophy)

2019	Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, co-edited with Paola Ceccarelli. Cambridge: CUP.
Forth.	The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic, co-edited with Paolo Fait. Cambridge: CUP.

2000	‘Self-bracketing Pyrrhonism’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 18, 263-328.
2001	‘L’elenchos di Agatone: Una rilettura di Platone, Simposio, 199c3-201c9’, Dianoia 6, 39-84.
2004	‘Protagoras Refuted: How Clever is Socrates’ “Most Clever” Argument at Theaetetus171a-c?’, Topoi 23: 3-32.
2006	‘Memoria Aristotelica, Memoria Agostiniana’, in G. A. Lucchetta, U. La Palombara (eds.),Mente, anima e corpo nel mondo antico. Immagini e funzioni, Pescara: Opera Editrice: 141-160.
2006	‘Liberal Arts and Recollection in Augustine’s Confessions X (ix 16 - xii 19)’, Philosophie Antique, 6: 107-135.
2007	‘Everything is true, Everything is False: Self-Refutation Arguments from Democritus to Augustine’, Antiquorum Philosophia 1: 11-74.
2009	‘Synartēsis crisippea e tesi di Aristotele’, in M. Alessandrelli, M. Nasti De Vincentis (eds.), La logica nel pensiero antico. Napoli: Bibliopolis: 105-163.
2010	‘How Dialectical Was Stoic Dialectic?’, in A. Nightingale, D. Sedley (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality. Cambridge: CUP: 153-179.
2012	‘Ancient Philosophy of Language’ (co-authored with E. V. Di Lascio), in D. G. Fara, G. Russell (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. London and New York: Routledge: 811-826.
2012	‘Aristotle on Begging the Question Between Dialectic, Logic and Epistemology’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 15: 90-121.
2012	‘Self-refutation and Dialectic in Plato and Aristotle’, in J. L. Fink (ed.), Dialectic and Dialogue: The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle, Cambridge: CUP: 27-61.
2013	‘Democritus and Epicurus on Sensible Qualities in Plutarch, Against Colotes 3-9’, Aitia. Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle 3.
2013	‘Early Pyrrhonism: Pyrrho to Aenesidemus’, in F. Sheffield, J. Warren (eds.), Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy. London and New York: Routledge: 496-510.
2015/6	‘Aristotle on the Non-Cause Fallacy’, History and Philosophy of Logic 37: 9-32.
2016	‘Aristote sur la pétition de principe’, for J.-B. Gourinat and J. Lemaire (eds.), Logique and dialectique dans l’Antiquité, Paris: Vrin: 259-302.
2017	‘Skeptical Ethics’, in C. Bobonich (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics, Cambridge: CUP: 2018-239.
2017	‘Aporia and inquiry in Ancient Pyrrhonism’, in V. Politis, G. Karamanolis (eds.), The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge: CUP: 205-227.
2018	‘Aenesidemus’, in D. Machuca, B. Reed (eds.) Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present, London and Oxford: Bloomsbury: 67-80.
2019	‘Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy’, for T. Bénatouïl and K. Ierodiakonou (eds.), Dialectic After Plato and Aristotle. Cambridge, CUP: 168-217.
2019	‘Is Memory of the Past? Aristotle on the Objects of Memory’, in L. Castagnoli and P. Ceccarelli: 236-255.
2019	‘Introduction’ (co-authored with P. Ceccarelli), in L. Castagnoli and P. Ceccarelli: 236-255.
2019	‘The Phaedo on Philosophy and the Soul’, in G. Fine (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Plato, 2nd edn. Oxford: OUP: 183-205.
2020	‘Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History’, in B. Dignas (ed.) A Cultural History of Memory in the Age of Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury: 83-100.
Forth.	‘Fallacies and Paradoxes’, in L. Castagnoli and P. Fait (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic. Cambridge: CUP.
Forth.	‘Validity and Syllogism’ (co-authored with P. Fait), in L. Castagnoli and P. Fait (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic. Cambridge: CUP.

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