I work primarily in ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. My books include: Philosopher-Kings (Princeton 1988; reissued 2006; Chinese edition, 2021); Socrates in the Apology (Hackett 1989; Chinese edition, 2019); Practices of Reason (Oxford, 1992), named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1992 by Choice; Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Hackett 2000); Love’s Confusions (Harvard 2005; Russian edition, 2021); Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (Harvard 2012; Portuguese edition, 2014; Chinese edition forthcoming), named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2012 by Choice; Blindness and Re-Orientation: Problems in Plato’s Republic (Oxford, 2012; Chinese edition, 2025); Aristotle on Practical Wisdom: Nicomachean Ethics Book VI (Harvard, 2013; Chinese edition, 2025); Aristotle’s World (in Chinese, 2025).
I have translated Plato’s Cratylus (1997), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito (2002), Republic (2004), Meno (2006), and Laws (2022), as well as (with extensive introductions and notes), Aristotle’s Politics (1998; revised edition, 2017), Nicomachean Ethics (2014; 2nd. ed, 2023), Metaphysics (2016), De Anima (2017), Physics (2018), Rhetoric (2018), Generation of Animals with History of Animals I and Parts of Animals I (2019), De Caelo (2020), Eudemian Ethics (2021), Aristotle’s Theology: The Primary Texts (2022), Aristotle’s Chemistry: Coming to Be and Passing Away, Meteorology 1.1–3, 4.1–12 (2023). Aristotle’s Dialectic: Topics, Sophistical Refutations, and Related Texts (2024).
I am General Editor of the New Hackett Aristotle Series, and, with Pavlos Kontos, of the projected Aristotle Complete Works, scheduled for publication in 2025, and with István Bodnár and Pavel Gregoric, of Aristotle: Associated Works.
My recent articles include: “Appetites, Akrasia, and the Appetitive Part of the Soul in Plato’s Republic,” in D. Keyt and C. Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy – Studies of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Cham, 2024), pp. 115–133; “Hylomorphic Explanation and the Scientific Status of the De Anima,” in C. Cohoe (ed.), Aristotle’s De Anima: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 14–31; “Aristotle on Hupolêpis, Doxa, and Epistêmê,” Dialogoi (2021), pp. 172–199; “Aristotle on Women: Diminished Deliberation and Divine Male Rule,” Revue Roumaine de Philosophie (2020); “Human Happiness As a Political Achievement in Aristotle,” Kronos Philosophical Journal (2019), pp. 61–84; “The Killing Feet: Evidence and Evidence-Sensitivity in Oedipus Tyrannus,” in P. Woodruff (ed.), Oedipus in Sophocles (Oxford 2018), “Good and Bad in Aristotle,” in P. Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle (Cambridge, 2018); and “Agalmata, Deontology, and the Erotics of Emptiness in the Symposium,” (Consecutio Rerum, 2017). With I. B. Fishbeyn, I have translated Marina Tsvetaeva, The Story of Sonechka (accepted by Columbia University Press but, because of the war in Ukraine, to be published by Academic Studies Press in 2025).