Julia Annas

Julia Annas (Ph.D., Harvard), Regents Professor of Philosophy, was at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, for fifteen years before coming to the University of Arizona. She specializes in almost every facet of ancient Greek philosophy, including Ethics, Psychology and Epistemology. Her current research interests are in Platonic ethics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the founder and former editor of the annual journal, "Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy".

Major writings

Books

*"Plato: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford, 2003).
*"Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford, 2000).
*"Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader" (Oxford, 2000).
*"Platonic Ethics, Old and New" (Cornell, 1999).
*"The Morality of Happiness" (Oxford, 1993).
*"Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind" (California, 1992).
*"The Modes of Scepticism" (Cambridge, 1985), with Jonathan Barnes.
*"An Introduction to Plato's Republic" (Oxford, 1981).

Translations

*Plato, "Statesman" (Cambridge, 1995), with Robin Waterfield.
*Sextus Empiricus, "Outlines of Scepticism" (Cambridge, 1994), with Jonathan Barnes.
*Aristotle, "Aristotle's Metaphysics Books M and N" (Oxford, 1976).

Recent articles

*"Aristotle and Kant on Morality and Practical Reasoning" (Aristotle, Kant & The Stoics,ed. S. Ergstrom and J. Whiting, Cambridge 1996)
*"Virtue and Eudaimonism" (Virtue and Vice, ed. E. Paul, J. Jaul and F. Miller, Cambridge, 1998)
*"Prudence and Morality in Ancient and Modern Ethics" (Ethics, January 1995)
*"Epicurus on Agency" (Passions and Perceptions, Cambridge, 1993)
*"The Good Life and the Good Lives of Others" (The Good Life and the Human Good, Cambridge, 1992)
*"Plato the Sceptic" (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supp. Vol., 1992).