I. On Plato’s Republic, more or less:
“Imagery and Utopia in Plato’s Republic”, in Rereading Plato’s Republic, M.M. McCabe and Simon Trépanier (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025), 351-370.
“What Kind of Theory is the Theory of the Tripartite Soul?”, in Proceedings of the XXXVIIth Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, G. Gurtler ed., Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2016, 53-83.
Plato and the Divided Self. Co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
“Eros and Necessity in the Ascent from the Cave”, Ancient Philosophy 28:2 Spring (2008): 357-72.
“Platonism, Moral Nostalgia and the City of Pigs”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy17 (2001): 207-27.
“Ring-Composition in Plato: the Case of Republic X”, in M. McPherran (ed.), Cambridge Critical Guide to Plato’s Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 32-51.
“Socrates’ Refutation of Thrasymachus”, in G. Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, 44-62.
“Callicles and Thrasymachus”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004. < http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/callicles-thrasymachus/>. Revised 2011 and 2017.
II. On the Cratylus:
Names and Nature in Plato’s Cratylus. New York: Routledge, 2001.
“Socrates Agonistes: the Case of the Cratylus Etymologies”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 16 (1998): 63-98.
“Plato on Conventionalism”, Phronesis 42 (1997): 143-62. “Appearances and Impressions”, Phronesis 37 (1992): 283-313
III. Other topics in Plato:
“Platonic Qua Predication”, Analytic Philosophy 2023, 1-20.
“Notes on Plato on the Kalon and the Good”, Classical Philology (Special Issue: Beauty, Harmony and the Good), 105 (2010): 363-377.
“Intellectualism and the Method of Hypothesis in Plato’s Early Dialogues”, in Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: The Ninth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, edited by M. R. Hampson and F. Leigh (Oxford, 2022), 21-53.
“Plato on Normative Measurement: Statesman 283b1-287b3”, in Plato’s Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion, eds. P. Dimas, M. Lane, and S.S. Meyer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 115-35.
“Techne as a Model for Virtue in Plato”, in Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, ed. T. Johansen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 62-85.“Notes on Plato on the Kalon and the Good”, Classical Philology (Special Issue: Beauty, Harmony and the Good), 105 (2010): 363-377.
“Plato on Desire for the Good”, in S. Tenenbaum (ed.), Desire, Good, and Practical Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 34-64.
“The Carpenter and the Good”, in D. Cairns, F. G. Herrmann, and T. Penner (eds.), Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato’s Republic, 293-319. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008.
“Plato on Measure and the Good: the Rank-Ordering of the Philebus”, in J. Jirsa, F. Karfik, S. Spinka (eds.), Plato’s Philebus: Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium Platonicum Pragense Praha: Oikoymenh Publishers, 2017, 208-29.
IV. On the sophists:
“Gorgias’ Defence: Plato and his Opponents on Rhetoric and the Good”, Southern Journal of Philosophy 48.1 (2010): 95-121.
“Protagoras and the Myth of Plato’s Protagoras”, GANPh [Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie] Proceedings V, ed. C. Riedweg, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019, 135-160.
“Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen”, in Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy, ed. E. Schliesser, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 1-25.
“The Sophistic Movement”, in M.L. Gill and P. Pellegrin (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, 77-97.
V. Aristotle and Others:
“[Aristotle], On Trolling”, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2:2 (2016): 193-95.
“Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vicious Habituation”, Festschrift for John M. Cooper, ed. Ben Morison and Hendrik Lorenz, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy special volume 57 (2019), 273-307.
“Aristotle’s Argument for a Human Function”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 (2008): 293-322.
“History and Dialectic (Metaphysics A 3, 983a24-4b8)”, in Carlos Steel ed., Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha (Symposium Aristotelicum XVIII). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 69-104.
“A Puzzle in Stoic Ethics”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24 (2003): 303-40.
“Simplicius: Commentary, Harmony, and Authority”, Antiquorum Philosophia 3 (2009): 101-20.
“The Inner Voice: Kant on Conditionality and God as Cause”, in Aristotle and Kant on the Highest Good, ed. J. Aufderheide and R. Bader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 159-82.