Staff

Dr Luca Castagnoli

Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41669

Member of the Department of Philosophy

Contact Dr Luca Castagnoli (email at luca.castagnoli@durham.ac.uk)

Areas of Doctoral Supervision

Most areas and periods of ancient philosophy, and especially ancient dialectic and logic, ancient epistemology and scepticism, and ancient conceptions of memory.

Biography

Luca Castagnoli is Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy. Having studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Bologna (1994-8; Laurea 2000) and the University of California, Berkeley (1998/99), in October 2001 he moved to England, Cambridge University (St. John’s College) to read for a Ph.D. in Classics (obtained in 2005). From October 2004 to August 2007 he was a Lumley Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge; during this period he also lectured courses in ancient philosophy at Cambridge and King’s College London. He joined the Department of Classics and Ancient History of Durham University in September 2007.

Research Interests

Luca Castagnoli’s research interests are focused on ancient philosophy, especially ancient dialectic and logic, ancient epistemology and scepticism, and ancient conceptions of memory and learning. His first book, Ancient Self-Refutation (Cambridge University Press 2010), is a comprehensive history and analysis of ancient self-refutation arguments from Democritus to Augustine, with a few glimpses at the medieval period. He is currently co-authoring two handbooks on ancient logic (one in Italian, for Laterza, and one in English, for Acumen Press), and writing a series of articles on ancient logic, epistemology and scepticism (follow the 'personal web pages' link above for more details). His next major research project, for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (January 2014-March 2015), is to produce a monograph on ancient philosophers on memory, recollection and forgetting. He is keen to supervise graduate students in his areas of expertise.

Recent and Current Research Students

* Graziano Toto, Aristotle on Identity (Ph.D.)

* Matthew Neale, Madhyamaka in Pyrrhonism (Philosophy Ph.D., co-supervisor)

* Dorothee Schmitt, Relativism and Self-Refutation (Ph.D. visiting student, Bonn University, 2012)

* Yip-Mei Loh, On the Construction of Plato's Epistemology (Ph.D. visiting student, Fu-Jen University, Taiwan, 2012)

* Doriana Cadoni, Alexander of Aphrodisias' Quaestio 1.4 (MA by thesis)

* Hyeok Yu, Self-Knowledge in Plato's Charmides (Ph.D., submitted)

* Yumi Suzuki, The underlying paradox Plato's Meno 80d5-e5 (MA by thesis 2012)

* Yoon Cheol Lee, A study on Protagorean Objectivism (Ph.D. 2012)

* Atsushi Hayase, Plato's later dialectic (Ph.D. 2010)

* Roberto Medda, Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscentia: concepts and sources (MA by thesis 2009)

Publications

Books: authored

Castagnoli, Luca (2010). Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited works: contributions

Castagnoli, Luca (2013). Early Pyrrhonism: Pyrrho to Aenesidemus. In Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Sheffield, F. & Warren, J. Routledge (forthcoming).
Castagnoli, Luca & Di Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina (2012). Ancient Philosophy of Language. In Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. Fara, D. G. & Russell, G. Routledge. 811-826.
Castagnoli, Luca & Cavini, Walter (2012). La logica antica. In L'antichita'. Eco U. Milan: Encyclomedia Publishers. 14: 110-161.
Castagnoli, Luca (2009). Sextus Empiricus. In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Gagarin, M. Oxford University Press. 6: 289-292.
Castagnoli, Luca (2009). Skepticism. In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Gagarin, M. Oxford University Press. 6: 314-318.

Essays in edited volumes

Castagnoli, Luca (Forthcoming). Aristote sur la pétition du principe. In Logique and dialectique dans l’Antiquité. Gourinat, J.-B. & Lemaire, J. Paris: Vrin (2013).
Castagnoli, Luca (2012). Self-refutation and Dialectic in Plato and Aristotle. In Dialectic and Dialogue: The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle. Fink, J. L. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 27-61.
Castagnoli, Luca (2010). How Dialectical Was Stoic Dialectic?. In Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality. Nightingale A. & Sedley, D. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 153-179.
Castagnoli, Luca (2009). Synartēsis crisippea e tesi di Aristotele. In La logica nel pensiero antico. Alessandrelli, M. & Nasti De Vincentis, M. Naples: Bibliopolis. 105-163.
Castagnoli, Luca (2006). Memoria Aristotelica, memoria Agostiniana. In Mente, anima e corpo nel mondo antico. Immagini e funzioni. Lucchetta, G. A. & La Palombara, U. Pescara: Opera Editrice. 141-160.

Journal papers: academic

Castagnoli, Luca (2013). Democritus and Epicurus on Sensible Qualities in Plutarch, Against Colotes 3-9. Aitia. Regards sur la culture hellénistique au XXIe siècle 3(forthcoming).
Castagnoli, Luca (2012). Aristotle on Begging the Question Between Dialectic, Logic and Epistemology. Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 15 : 90-121.
Castagnoli, Luca (2007). Everything is true, Everything is False: Self-Refutation Arguments from Democritus to Augustine. Antiqvorvm Philosophia 1: 11-74.
Castagnoli, Luca (2006). Liberal Arts and Recollection in Augustine's Confessions X (ix 16 - xii 19). Philosophie Antique 6: 107-135.
Castagnoli, Luca (2004). Il condizionale crisippeo e le sue interpretazioni moderne. Elenchos 25(2): 353-395.
Castagnoli, Luca (2004). Protagoras refuted. How clever is Socrates' "most clever" argument at Theaetetus 171a-c?. Topoi 23(1): 3-32.
Castagnoli, Luca (2002). L'elenchos di Agatone: una rilettura di Platone, Simposio 199c3-201c9. Dianoia 6: 39-84.
Castagnoli, Luca (2000). Self-bracketing Pyrrhonism. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 18: 263-328.

Articles: review

Castagnoli, L. (2013). Ancient Philosophy Subject Review. Greece&Rome 60(2): (forthcoming).
Castagnoli, L. (2011). Ancient Philosophy Subject Review. Greece&Rome 58(1): 141-153.
Castagnoli, L. (2011). Critical Notice on R. Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 1(1): 44-55.
Castagnoli, L. (2011). Review of P. Stern, Knowledge and Politics in Plato’s Theaetetus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Classical Review 61(1): 64-67.
Castagnoli, L. (2011). Review of R. Salles, The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). Ancient Philosophy 31(1): 228-235.
Castagnoli, L. (2009). Review of R. Sorabji, Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Classical Review 59(1): 69-71.
Castagnoli, L. (2008). Review of H. Tarrant, Recollecting Plato's Meno (London: Duckworth, 2005). Ancient Philosophy 28(2): 413-418.
Castagnoli, L. (2007). Review of M.-K. Lee, Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005). Ancient Philosophy 27(2): 405-418.
Castagnoli, L. (2007). Sextus Empiricus’ Dialectical Moves: Review of R. La Sala, Die Züge des Skeptikers: Die dialektische Charakter von Sextus Empiricus’ Werk (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005). Classical Review 57(2): 370-372.
Castagnoli, L. (2006). Review of M. Bonazzi, Accademici e Platonici: Il dibattito antico sullo scetticismo di Platone (Milano: LED, 2004). Journal of Hellenic Studies 126: 214-215.
Castagnoli, L. (2005). Plato’s Republic Revis(it)ed: Review of D. Roochnik, Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato’s Republic (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003). Classical Review 55(1): 55-57.
Castagnoli, L. (2004). Review of L. Floridi, Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Ancient Philosophy 24(1): 232-235.
Castagnoli, L. (2004). Review of M. Nasti De Vincentis, Logiche della connessività (Bern: Haupt, 2002). Elenchos 25(1): 179-192.
Castagnoli, L. (2002). Review of R. Bett, Pyrrho, his Antecedents, and his Legacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Ancient Philosophy 22(2): 443-457.

Journal papers: online

Castagnoli, Luca (2007). Everything is true, everything is false: self-refutation arguments from Democritus to Augustine. Antiquorum Philosophia 1: 11-74.
Castagnoli, Luca (2007). Synartesis crisippea e tesi di Aristotele.