Malcolm Schofield


Malcolm Schofield, is a British classicist and academic, specialising in ancient philosophy. Having taught at Cornell University and the University of Oxford, he joined the University of Cambridge in 1972 as a lecturer in classics and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was promoted to Reader in Ancient Philosophy in 1989, and made Professor of Ancient Philosophy 1998. Since retiring in 2009, he has been an Emeritus Professor at Cambridge.
In 1997, Schofield was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected works

*