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Dr Raphael Woolf did his BA at Cambridge and his graduate study at King's, receiving his PhD in 1997. He held one-year positions at King's and Liverpool and then taught for seven years in the Harvard University philosophy department, with a sabbatical in 2002-03 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

• Ancient philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy 

Dr Woolf works mainly in ancient philosophy and has published on Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy.

• Raphael Woolf (2009) 'Pleasure and Desire', in The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism  pp. 158-178 [Chapter]
• Raphael Woolf (2009)  'Truth as a Value in Plato's 'Republic'' Phronesis,  54 (1), pp. 9-39. [Article in print Journal]
• Raphael Woolf (2009)  'Truth as a Value in Plato's Republic' Phronesis, 54 (1), pp. 9-39. [Article in print Journal]
• Raphael Woolf (2008) 'Misology and Truth', in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Volume XXIII (2007)  pp. 1-16
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• Raphael Woolf (2008)  'Socratic Authority ' Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 90 (1), pp. 1-38. [Article in print Journal]
• R Woolf (2008)  'Socratic authority' Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 90 (1), pp. 1-38. [Article in print Journal]
• Raphael Woolf (2007)  'Particularism, Promises and Persons in Cicero's 'De Officilis'' Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 33, pp. 317-346. [Article in print Journal]
• Raphael Woolf (2004)  'A Shaggy Soul Story: How not to Read the Wax Tablet Model in Plato's 'Theaetetus'' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 69 (3), pp. 573-604. [Article in print Journal]

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Undergraduate modules:

• 5AANB002 Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle
• 6AANA020 Neoplatonism 

Postgraduate modules:

• 7AAN2027 Greek Philosophy II: Aristotle
• 7AAN2031 Greek Philosophy III: Special Topics

Dr Woolf welcomes applications from prospective students seeking supervision in areas connected to his research interests. 

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