Julia Elizabeth Annas is a British American philosopher. She is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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Biography

Annas graduated from Oxford University in 1968 with a B.A., and from Harvard University

Harvard University

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  with an A.M. (1970) and a Ph.D. (1972). She was a Fellow and Tutor at St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College, Oxford

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 for 15 years and taught for a shorter time at Columbia University. She concentrates on the study of ancient Greek philosophy

Greek philosophy

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire...

, including Ethics

Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

, Psychology

Psychology

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 and Epistemology.
Her current research interests are in Platonic ethics. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 in 1992. She is the founder and former editor of the annual journal, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. She is married to the Hume scholar, David Owen, also a professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona.

Books

• Intelligent Virtue (Oxford, 2011).
• 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). (reprint 1995, ISBN 9780195096521)
• Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind (California, 1992).
• The Modes of Scepticism (Cambridge, 1985), with Jonathan Barnes
  Jonathan Barnes
  Jonathan Barnes is a British philosopher, translator and historian of ancient philosophy.-Education and career:He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford University....
  
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• An Introduction to Plato's Republic (Oxford, 1981).

Translations

• Plato
  Plato
  Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
  
  , Statesman (Cambridge, 1995), with Robin Waterfield
  Robin Waterfield
  Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction.-Career:Waterfield was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University, where he achieved a first class degree in 1974...
  
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• Sextus Empiricus
  Sextus Empiricus
  Sextus Empiricus , was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. His philosophical work is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism....
  
  , Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge, 1994), with Jonathan Barnes
  Jonathan Barnes
  Jonathan Barnes is a British philosopher, translator and historian of ancient philosophy.-Education and career:He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford University....
  
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• Aristotle
  Aristotle
  Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
  
  , Aristotle's Metaphysics Books M and N (Oxford, 1976).

Recent articles

• "What are Plato’s “Middle” Dialogues in the Middle Of?" (Harvard University Press, 2002)
• "Democritus and Eudaimonism" (Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alex Mourelatos, edited by Victor Caston and Daniel Graham, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2002)
• "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).

External links

• Author's website