Description: I'm an assistant professor in the philosophy department at UMBC. I work on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. I received my PhD from Princeton University, my BPhil from Oxford University, and my BA from Cornell University
philosophy (1724) princeton (412) ancient (360) plato (110) whitney (72) schwab (66) aristotle (42) umbc (6) stoics (4)
[Forthcoming] Journal of the History of Philosophy
The kataleptic impression—an impression that is, in some special way, “true and such as could not be false”—is at the core of Stoic epistemology. Since Gisela Striker’s groundbreaking work on the criterion of truth, the dominant view among scholars is that the Stoics restricted kataleptic impressions to certain perceptual impressions. I argue that the Stoics in fact countenanced non-perceptual kataleptic impressions and explain how they thought non-perceptual impressions can meet the definition of the katal
[Forthcoming] The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (edited by Jacob Klein and Nate Powers)