CURRICULUM VITAE

James Allen
Philosophy Department
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 624 1814
jvallen+@pitt.edu

5931 Hobart Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15217
(412) 422 9435

Academic Positions:
University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh, Instructor Philosophy

2003-present
1994-2003
1988-94
1987-88

Visiting Position:
Philosophy Department, Yale University, Associate Professor

1995

Education:
Princeton University, Ph.D.., Philosophy (1988)
Yale University, B.A. Philosophy, Greek, magna cum laude

1982-7
1977-81

Honors, Awards and Fellowships:

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship renewed
Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship (declined)
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellowship
Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Visiting Fellow
Junior Faculty Research Grants, University of Pittsburgh,
Whiting Fellowship, Princeton University
DAAD Scholarship for German language study, Summer
Paul Elmer More Fellowship, Princeton University

2002-03
1998
1998-99
1990
1989, 1990
1986-87
1984
1982-86

Publications:
Syllogism, Demonstration, and Definition in Aristotles Topics and Posterior
Analytics in Essays in Memory of Michael Frede (Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy XL, Summer 2011), edd. James Allen, Eyjolfur Emillson,
Wolfgang-Rainer Mann, Benjamin Morrison, 63-90.
Pyrrhonism and Medicine, in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient
Scepticism, ed. R. Bett (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 232-248.
Greek Philosophy and Signs, in Divination and the Interpretation of Signs in the
Ancient World, ed. A Annus (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
2010), 29-42.

Aristotle on Disciplines of Argument: Rhetoric, Dialectic, Analytic, Rhetorica 25

(2007), 87-108. (In modern Greek translation, 2008)
Rhetoric and Logic, in A Companion to Greek Rhetoric, ed. I. Worthington (Basil
Blackwell, 2007), 350-64.
Dialectic and Virtue in Platos Protagoras, in The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics, ed.
B. Reis (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 6-31.
"Ancient Skepticism," "Antiochus of Ascalon," "Arcesilaus," "Carneades"
and "Philo of Larissa" in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition,
ed D. Borchert (MacMillan, 2005).
"The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology," in
Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age Proceedings
of the Ninth Symposium Hellenisticum, ed. D. Frede, B. Inwood (Cambridge
University Press, 2005), 14-35.
"Antiochus of Ascalon," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2005 Edition),
Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2005/
entries/antiochus-ascalon/>
"Experience as a Source and Ground of Theory in Epicureanism," in Re-inventions:
essays on Hellenistic and early Roman science (Apeiron 37), ed. P. Lang
(Academic Printing and Publishing, 2004), 89-106.
"Carneades", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2004 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), URL = <http:// plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entries/
carneades/>.
Inference from signs: ancient debates about the nature of evidence (Oxford
University Press, 2001; paperback 2008).
Zur Diskussion: Galen as (mis)informant about the views of his predecessors: A
discussion of R. J. Hankinson (ed.), Galen on Antecedent Causes (Cambridge,
1998)," in Archiv fr Geschichte der Philosophie, 83 (2001), 81-9.
Kunst in Der neue Pauly Lexikon der Antike, Bd. 6, ed. H. Schneider et al.
(Metzler, 1999), 915-17. (English translation in Brills New Pauly, 2002-7)
Epicurean Inferences: the Evidence of Philodemus De Signis, in Method in
Ancient Philosophy, ed. G. Gentzler (Oxford University Press, 1998), 307-349.
Carneadean argument in Cicero's Academic books in Assent and argument:
studies in Cicero's Academic books Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenisticum,
ed. J. Mansfeld, B. Inwood (Brill, 1997), 217-256.

"Aenesidemus," "Agrippa, " "Arcesilaus," "Lacydes, " "Pyrrho and Pyrrohnism,"

"Sextus Empiricus," "Timon of Phlius" in The Encyclopedia of Classical
Philosophy, ed. D. Zeyl (Greenwood Press, 1997), 6-8, 17, 46-8, 297-8, 463-5,
488-90, 562-3.
The Development of Aristotles Logic: part of an account in outline, in
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 11 (1995), 177205.
"Academic Probabilism and Stoic Epistemology," Classical Quarterly, N.S. 44 (i)
(1994), 85-113.
"Failure and Expertise in the Ancient Conception of an Art," in
Scientific Failure, ed. A. Janis, T. Horowitz (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), 83110.
"Pyrrhonism and Medical Empiricism: Sextus Empiricus on Evidence and
Inference," in Aufsteig und Niedergang der Rmischen Welt ll, 37, l (De Gruyter,
1993), 644-690.
"Stoic Epistemology," in A Companion to Epistemology, ed. J. Dancy and E. Sosa
(Basil Blackwell, 1992), 490-493.
"The Skepticism of Sextus Empiricus" in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Rmischen Welt ll
36,4 (De Gruyter, 1990), 2582-2607.
Reviews:
Review of Sextus Empiricus: Against the Grammarians, ed. and trans., David Blank,
Journal of Hellenic Studies 123 (2003), 258.
Review of The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories & Their
Context, W.- R. Mann, The Journal of Philosophy 99 (2002), 329-32.
Review of tudes sur les Philosophies Hellnistiques: Epicurisme, stocisme,
scepticisme, J. Brunschwig, Review of Metaphysics 205 (1998), 132-4.
Review of The Skeptic Way, ed. and trans. B. Mates and Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of
Scepticism, ed. and trans. J. Barnes and J. Annas The Philosophical Review 107
(1998), 151-55.
Forthcoming:
"Galen," in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie Begrndet von Friedrich
Ueberweg, Die Philosophie der Antike, Band 5: Philosophie der Kaiserzeit
und der Sptantike, ed. C. Horn et al.

Why there are ends of both goods and evils in ancient ethical theory in the
Festschrift for Gisela Striker, M. Lee, M Schiefsky (edd.) OUP.
Practical and Theoretical Knowledge in Aristotle Bridging the Gap Between
Aristotle's Science and Ethics edd. D. Henry and K. Nielsen. CUP.
Aristotle on probability: persuasiveness and likelihood in rhetoric in EIKOS:
Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought, ed. V.
Wohl. CUP.
Galen the Philosopher for the Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, ed. J.
Warren et al. and had it approved by ed. Not sure of publication schedule.
Hellenistic Ethical Theory for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics,
Wiley/Blackwell.
Talks:
Univerity of Patras, Conference on teleology, 19-21 June 2011
Harvard University, Conference on the occasion of Gisela Strikers
retirement) (6-8 May 2011)
Philosophy Department, University of California Berkeley, 10 Feb. 2011
The Waldorf School, Brooklyn, 13 March 2010
Commentator, University of Toronto Workshop Perceiving Ourselves, 26-28
March 2010
Cicero Seminar, Classics Department, University of Toronto 25 November 2009
Faculty Student Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, 16 April 2009
Workshop Bridging the Gap between Aristotles Science and Ethics, University of
Western Ontario, 19-21 March 2009.
Conference, Science and Superstition, Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World,
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 6-7 March 2009.
Seminar Presentation, Kings College London, 11 December 2008
Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, 9 December
2008
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, 20 November 2008

Seminar presentation, Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval

Philospophy,, University of Toronto, 17 November 2008
Classics Faculty, Cambridge University, Lunchtime series, 11 November 2008
Philosophisches Seminar, Humboldt Universitt zu Berlin, 28 October 2008
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy, Newnham College, Cambridge
University, 18-20 September 2008
Conference on Eduard Zeller, Berlin, 12-14 March 2008
Comments on Julie Ponesse Eastern Division APA convention, Baltimore, 28
December 2007
University of Toronto, Philosophy Department 3 May 2007
Comments on Mark Schiefsky, Conference on Plato on the divided soul, Cornell 1315 October 2006
Philosophy Department, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 10 May 2006
Philosophy Department, University of Toronto 26 November 2005
Department of Philosophy, McGill Univesity 24-25 September 2005 (two talks)
Conference on Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric, University of Crete, 29-31 October
2004
Conference on Ancient Skepticism, Assos Turkey, 5-9 July 2004
Faculty Student Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh 20 February 2004
Conference on Hellenistic and Early Roman Science, Emory University, 4-5 October
2003
Philosophisches Seminar, Humboldt Universitt zu Berlin, 28 January 2002
Philosophisches Seminar, Universitt Bonn, 12 December 2002
Classics Department, Cornell University, 26 April 2002
Philosophy Department, Cornell University, 25 April 2002
Symposium Hellenisticum Hamburg, 23-8 July 2001
Invited Talk, Ancient Logic, Central Division Meeting APA 5 May 2001

Comments on a paper by Michael Frede, Center for the History and Philosophy of
Science Symposium, Rethymnon, Crete, 26 October 2000
Philosophisches Seminar, Universitt Hamburg, 28 April 1999
Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, Christs College, 8 February 1999
Comments on H. von Staden, Symposium on the History and Philosophy of
Greek Medical traditions from Hippocrates to Harvey, Athens 22 May 1998
Comments on R. Bett, Chicago conference on ancient philosophy, Chicago 26
April 1998
Invited talk, APA Eastern meeting, Philadelphia, 28-30 December 1997
Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, Christs College, 27 November 1995
Symposium Hellenisticum, Utrecht, 20-27 August 1995
Department of Philosophy, Yale University, 20 April 1995
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Harvard
University, December 1, 1994
Comments on paper by Gisela Striker, Conference entitled Methodos, Amherst
College, 8-10 April 1994
Center for the History and Philosophy of Science Lunchtime Talk, University of
Pittsburgh 7 December 1993
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, 23 January 1992
Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, 22 January 1992
Comments on paper by R. J. Hankinson, Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,
Princeton University, 7 December 1991
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley,
31 January 1991
Meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Central Meeting of the
American Philosophical Association, Chicago, 28 April 1989
Workshop on Scientific Failure, University of Pittsburgh, 23 April 1988
Referee:
Oxford University Press
Ancient Philosophy

Annals of Science
Archiv fr Geschichte der Philosophie
History and Philosophy of Logic
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Philosophical Quarterly
Foundations of the Formal Sciences
Dissertation supervision:
Director: David Berger, Timothy Greenfield, Nic Thorne
Committee member: Keith Bemer (2nd reader), Gregory Salmieri(2nd reader), Gregory
Gates, Hans Lottenbach, Mark Holowchak, Paul Muench, Katharine Nolan, Steven
Quevedo, John Quilter, Heike Sefrin-Weiss, Jakovos Vasiliou, Christopher Williams,
Sara Worley
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1999-00

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1997-98

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1996-97

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Undergraduate advisor,

Judge of Bennett and Reiser prize competitions, member ad hoc
committee to study research equivalency

1995-96

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee

1991-92

Member, Graduate Committee

1990-91

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee

1989-90

Member, Junior Faculty Search Committee

1988-89

Chair, Admissions Committee

1987-88

Undergraduate advisor and advisor to the Philosophy Club

University Service:
2003-4

Member, Promtion Committee, Communications Department

2001-4

Director, Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Sciences

1997-98

Tenure council service

1996-97

Tenure Council alternate member

1995-96

Director, Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Sciences

1993-94

Director, Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Sciences

Member, Provosts and Humanities Fellowship Committee

Member, Lawler Fellowship Committee