Professor Lindsay Judson

MA, DPhil (Oxford)

I studied Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford as an undergraduate and then wrote a doctoral thesis in Philosophy, on necessity, chance and explanation in Aristotle.  I held college lecturerships at Pembroke, Jesus and Wadham, and have also taught at King's College London, the Open University, and Stanford University.  I held a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church 1984–7, and was appointed to an Official Studentship here in 1987.

I teach most of the Greek philosophy courses on the Oxford syllabus, as well as Ethics and Early Modern Philosophy.

My research focuses on ancient philosophy, and especially on the thought of Plato and Aristotle.

Books and articles

Aristotle: Metaphysics Λ: A Translation and Commentary (Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford University Press, 2019)

The Meno’, in Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2019), 161–81

‘Aristotle and Crossing the Boundaries between the Sciences’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101 (2019), 177–204

‘First Philosophy in Metaphysics Λ’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54 (2018), 227–77

‘Physics I.5’, in Diana Quarantotto (ed.), Aristotle’s Physics I: A Systematic Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 130–53

‘Hypotheses in Plato’s Meno’, Philosophical Inquiry 41 (2017), 29–39

‘Aristotle, Metaphysics Θ.8 1050b6-28’, Phronesis 61 (2016), 142–59

‘Aristotle’s Astrophysics’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49 (2015), 151–92

Faculty of Philosophy publications

General Editor of two series of research monographs:

• Clarendon Aristotle Series
• Oxford Aristotle Studies