
Brad Inwood
· William Lampson Professor of Philosophy and of ClassicsYale University · Department of Classics
Active 1979–2026
About
Brad Inwood is the William Lampson Professor of Philosophy and of Classics at Yale University. He is a specialist in ancient philosophy with particular emphasis on Stoicism and the Presocratics. His academic background includes a BA in Classics from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, an MA in Classics from the University of Toronto, and a doctorate in Classics from Toronto with a focus on ancient philosophy. His career began with a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, followed by a teaching position at the University of Toronto, where he served as DGS in Classics, chair of the Classics department, and acting chair of Philosophy. He also founded Toronto’s Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, serving as its director for two terms. In addition, he has held fellowships at the National Humanities Centre and the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, and held the Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy. His research has consistently focused on ancient philosophy, especially during the Hellenistic and Presocratic periods. His major works include titles such as 'Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism,' 'The Poem of Empedocles,' 'Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome,' 'Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters,' and 'Ethics After Aristotle.' From 2007 to 2015, he was the editor of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and he has recently published 'Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation' for Cambridge University Press. His primary appointments are in both Philosophy and Classics, with special interests in Presocratics, Stoicism, moral psychology, and ethics.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Epistemology
- Philosophy
- Social Science
- Classics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Law
- History
- Literature
- Art
Selected publications
The Legal, the Political and the Ethical
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Dialogue’s Place in the Corpus
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCambridge University Press eBooks · 2026-03-04
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingEthics and Natural Philosophy in Marcus Aurelius
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2025-07-02
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding23 Summing up: ‘the dog that didn’t bark’
Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2025-05-04
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 15 shared
Raphael Woolf
King's College London
- 11 shared
David Sedley
- 9 shared
Malcolm Schofield
- 8 shared
R. J. Hankinson
The University of Texas at Austin
- 7 shared
Keimpe Algra
Utrecht University
- 7 shared
Dorothea Frede
Universität Hamburg
- 6 shared
Enzo Degani
- 6 shared
Franco Montanari
Awards & honors
- Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy
- Winkler Prize
- Resume-aware match score
- Save to shortlist
- AI-drafted outreach
See your match with Brad Inwood
PhdFit ranks faculty by your research interests, methods, and publications — grounded in their actual work, not templates.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- 30-second signup