How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems

About Malcolm Schofield

MALCOLM SCHOFIELD is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized as one of the major scholars in the world currently working on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His first book was An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge 1980) he co-authored with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge 1983) and has co-edited numerous other collaborative volumes including in 2015 with Catherine Rowett a special Heraclitus issue of the journal Rhizomata and with Tom Griffith a new English edition of Plato's Laws (Cambridge 2016). He now works mostly on Greek and Roman political philosophy. He was co-editor with Christopher Rowe of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge 2000). The Stoic Idea of the City (Cambridge 1991) Saving the City (1999) Plato: Political Philosophy (2006) and Cicero: Political Philosophy (2021) are among his major solo publications.