C. D. C. Reeve works in ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, moral psychology, history of philosophy, the philosophy of sex and love, and philosophical aspects of film. His books include, Philosopher-Kings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006), Socrates in the Apology (Hackett 1989), Practices of Reason (Oxford, 1992), Substantial Knowledge (Hackett 2000), and Love's Confusions (Harvard 2005). He has translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito (2002), Republic (2004), and Meno (2006) as well as Aristotle’s Politics (1998). Among his recent articles are "A Celemín of Shit: Comedy and Deception in Amododóvar's Talk to Her" in Philosophers on Film:Talk to Her (2009), Glaucon's Challenge and Thrasymacheanism,“ in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (2008), “A Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium," in Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception (2007), “Goat-Stags, Philosopher-Kings, and Eudaimonism in the Republic,” in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (2007), "Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought," in The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006). Forthcoming are Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics Book VI: text, translation, and commentary as well as papers on Blade Runner, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Short Film about Love, and on Plato's psychology.

