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Primary texts in translation
Translations of Aristotle are from Barnes (1984), and of other texts
are from Long and Sedley (1987). Citations of texts contained in Long
and Sedley (1987) also include LS [text number].
- Armstrong, A.H., (trans.), 1968–88, Plotinus, 7 volumes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library). (Scholar)
- Barnes, Jonathan, (ed.), 1984, The Complete Works of
Aristotle. The Revised Oxford Translation, Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Inwood, Brad and L. P. Gerson, 1997, Hellenistic Philosophy:
Introductory Readings, second edition, Indianapolis, IN:
Hackett. (Scholar)
- Long, A. A. and D. N. Sedley, 1987, The Hellenistic
Philosophers, 2 vols., Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (Scholar)
- Rackham, H. (trans.), 1942, Cicero. On the Orator: Book 3. On
Fate. Stoic Paradoxes. Divisions of Oratory, Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library). (Scholar)
- Sharples, R. W. (ed. and trans.), 1983, Alexander of
Aphrodisias “On Fate”: text, translation, and
commentary, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
- Smith, Martin Ferguson (trans.), 2001, Lucretius. On the
Nature of Things, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Scholar)
Primary texts cited
The following ancient texts are cited (by abbreviation, where
given):
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Aristotle
- [NE] Nicomachean Ethics
- [Int.] De Interpretatione (On
Interpretation)
- Cicero
- Academica
- [Fat.] De Fato (On Fate)
- [Fin.] De Finibus (On Goals)
- On the Nature of the Gods
- On Divination
- Tusculan disputations
- Clement of Alexandria, The Teacher
- Diogenes Laertius, [DL] Lives of the Philosophers
- Diogenes of Oinoanda (inscription)
- Epictetus
- Epicurus
- [KD] Kuriai Doxai (Principle Doctrines)
- [SV] Sententiae Vaticanae (Vatican Sayings)
- [Ep. Men.] Letter to Menoeceus
- [On Nature] Peri phuseôs
- The Letter to Herodotus
- Gellius, Noctes Atticae
- Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies
- Lucretius, [DRN] De Rerum Natura (On the Nature
of Things)
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Origen, On principles
- Plato
- Gorgias
- Laws
- Protagoras
- [Rep.] Republic
- [Tim.] Timaeus
- Plotinus, [Enn.] Enneads
- Plutarch, On Stoic Self-Contradiction
- Porphyry, On Abstinence
- Seneca, On Benefits
- Stobaeus, Eclogues
Secondary sources
- Annas, Julia, 1992, Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1993, “Epicurus on Agency”, in Passions & Perceptions: Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, Proceedings of the 5th Symposium Hellenisticum, Jacques Brunschwig and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 53–71. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511470325.005 (Scholar)
- Asmis, Elizabeth, 1990, “Free Action and the Swerve”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 8: 275–290. (Scholar)
- Bobzien, Susanne, 1998a, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (The definitive work on its subject.) (Scholar)
- –––, 1998b, “The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem”, Phronesis, 43(2): 133–175. doi:10.1163/15685289860511069 (Detailed study of Alexander of Aphrodisias and the influences on his theory. Argues that Alexander was the first to advance an incompatibilist theory of free will, although O’Keefe (2005) 153–162 claims that Carneades was the first.) (Scholar)
- –––, 2000, “Did Epicurus Discover the Free Will Problem?” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 19: 287–337. (Scholar)
- –––, 2006, “Moral Responsibility and Moral
Development in Epicurus’ Philosophy”, in The Virtuous
Life In Greek Ethics, Burkhard Reis (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 206–229. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511482595.012 (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics 3.5, 1113b7–8 and Free
Choice”, in Destrée, Salles, and Zingano 2014:
59–74. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility: Essays in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Collection of the above papers and others on the topic.) (Scholar)
- Bown, Alexander, 2016, “Epicurus on Bivalence and the Excluded Middle”, Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie, 98(3): 239–271. doi:10.1515/agph-2016-0012 (Scholar)
- Carter, Jason W., 2022, “Fatalism and False Futures in
De Interpretatione 9”, Oxford Studies in Ancient
Philosophy, 63: 49–88. (Scholar)
- Castagnoli, Luca, 2010, Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument From Democritus to Augustine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Collette-Dučić, Bernard, 2014, “Plotinus on
Founding Freedom in Ennead VI.8[39]”, in The
Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Pauliina Remes and Svetla
Slaveva-Griffith (eds.), New York: Routledge, ch. 26. (Scholar)
- Coope, Ursula, 2020, Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Destrée, Pierre, 2011, “Aristotle on Responsibility
for One’s Character”, in Moral Psychology and Human
Action in Aristotle, Michael Pakaluk and Giles Pearson (eds.),
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 285–319.
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546541.003.0012 (Scholar)
- Destrée, Pierre, Ricardo Salles, and Marco Zingano (eds.), 2014, What is up to us? Studies on Causality and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy, Bonn: Academia Verlag. (A wide-ranging collection.) (Scholar)
- Englert, Walter G., 1987, Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action, (American Classical Studies, 16), Atlanta, GA: Scholar’s Press. (Scholar)
- Frede, Michael, 2011, A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Furley, David J., 1967, Two Studies in the Greek Atomists, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Gaskin, Richard, 1995, The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. (Scholar)
- Harari, Orna, 2023, “Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Theory of Action and the Capacity of Doing Otherwise”, Apeiron, 56(4): 693–721. doi:10.1515/apeiron-2022-0114 (Scholar)
- Ilievski, Viktor, 2018, “Theodicy and Moral Responsibility in the Myth of Er”, Apeiron, 51(3): 259–278. doi:10.1515/apeiron-2017-0053 (Scholar)
- Inwood, Brad, 1985, Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Liu, Benjamin C., 2024, “Particular Desire in
Aristotle’s ‘Voluntary’”, Apeiron,
57(1): 83–109. doi:10:1515/apeiron-2023-0082 (Scholar)
- Johnson, Monte, 2014, “Changing Our Minds: Democritus on What is Up to Us”, in Destrée, Salles, and Zingano 2014: 1–18. (Argues that Epicurus and others are wrong to attribute to Democritus the view that human actions are necessitated.) (Scholar)
- Kane, Robert, 2014, “Acting ‘of One’s Own Free
Will’: Modern Reflections on an Ancient Philosophical
Problem”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 114
(1): 35–55. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9264.2014.00363.x (Scholar)
- Mackenzie, Mary Margaret, 1981, Plato on Punishment, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
- Meyer, Susan Sauvé, 2011, Aristotle on Moral Responsibility: Character and Cause, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697427.001.0001 (Thorough and well-argued.) (Scholar)
- O’Keefe, Tim, 2005, Epicurus on Freedom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511482571 (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, “Action and Responsibility”, in The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, James Warren (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 142–157. doi:10.1017/ccol9780521873475.009 (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, “The Stoics on Fate and
Freedom”, in The Routledge Companion to Free Will,
Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith, and Neil Levy (eds.), New York:
Routledge, 236–246. (Scholar)
- Purinton, Jeffrey, 1999, “Epicurus on ‘Free Volition’ and the Atomic Swerve”, Phronesis, 44(4): 253–299. doi:10.1163/15685289960464601 (Scholar)
- Rescher, Nicholas, 1963, “An Interpretation of
Aristotle’s Doctrine of Future Contingency and Excluded
Middle”, in his Studies in the History of Arabic Logic,
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 43–54. (Scholar)
- Sedley, David, 1983, “Epicurus’ refutation of
determinism”, in SUZETESIS. studi sull’ epicureismo
Greco e romano offerti a M Gigante, Naples: Bibliopolis, pp.
11–51. (Scholar)
- –––, 1988, “Epicurean Anti-Reductionism”, in Matter and Metaphysics: Fourth Symposium Hellenisticum, Jonathan Barnes and Mario Mignucci (eds.), Naples: Bibliopolis. pp. 295–327. (Scholar)
- Segvic, Heda, 2000, “No One Errs Willingly: the Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 19: 1–45. (Scholar)
- Sharples, R.W., 1975, “Aristotelian and Stoic Conceptions of Necessity in the De Fato of Alexander of Aphrodisias”, Phronesis, 20(3): 247–274. doi:10.1163/156852875x00111 (Scholar)
- Sorabji, Richard, 1980, Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle’s Theory, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
- Van Rijen, Jeroen, 1989, Aspects of Aristotle’s Logic of
Modalities, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)