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Jacob Klein
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department/Office Information
Philosophy
101 Hascall Hall
Contact
jklein@colgate.edu
(315) 228-6031
BA, Hillsdale College
MA, Cornell University
PhD, Cornell University (advised by Terence Irwin)
I am interested in ancient ethics and moral psychology generally, but especially as they relate to questions about the objectivity of norms and value. My main interest is in Plato, but I have taken a long detour through Stoic (i.e. Socratic) ethics and moral psychology.
I have recently co-edited
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
with Nathan Powers (SUNY Albany). I am currently completing a book manuscript on
The Ethics of the Older Stoics.
I plan to return to Plato on the other side of these projects.
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
(edited with Nathan Powers, Oxford University Press, 2025)
"Apprehension and Assent: Cicero's Transmission of Stoic Epistemology," forthcoming in
Works of Philosophy and Their Reception
(De Gruyter)
The Stoics and Kant on the Motive of Duty
" in
Kant and Stoic Ethics,
forthcoming from Cambridge University Press
Original Sins: Chrysippus on Command and Prohibition,
" forthcoming in a volume on
The Philosophy of Chrysippus
for the Symposium Hellenisticum series (Cambridge University Press)
The Scope and Themes of Hellenistic Philosophy
" (with Nathan Powers), in
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 2025)
The Highest Good in Stoicism,
" in
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 2025)
Autonomy and Stoicism
," in
The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy
, ed. Ben Colburn (Routledge, 2022).
Desire and Impulse in Epictetus and the Older Stoics,
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie,
103 (2021), 221–51.
Aristotelian and Stoic Virtue
," in
The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
, ed. Kelly Arenson (Routledge, 2020)
The Stoic Argument from
oikeiôsis
" Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
, 50 (2016), 143-200.
Making Sense of Stoic Indifferents,
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy,
49 (2015), 227-81.
Of Archery and Virtue: Ancient and Modern Conceptions of Value
,"
Philosophers' Imprint
Vol. 14, No. 19
June 2014
Stoic Eudaimonism and the Natural Law Tradition
," in
Reason, Religion and Natural Law: Plato to Spinoza
, ed. Jonathan Jacobs (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Stoic Thinkers,
" in
Key Ethical Thinkers
, ed. Tom Angier (Bloomsbury, 2012)
Review of Inwood,
Later Stoicism 155 BCE to AD 200
(Cambridge, 2022),
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
, 2025.01.21
Review of Annas and Betegh (eds.),
Cicero's 'De finibus':
Philosophical Approaches
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
, 2017.05.29
Review of Brad Inwood,
Ethics after Aristotle
(Harvard, 2014),
Phoenix
Vol. 69, No. 3/4
Review of René Brouwer,
The Stoic Sage
The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates
Cambridge 2014),
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
2015.04.13
Review of A. Long (ed.),
Plato and the Stoics
(Cambridge, 2013),
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
2014.09.34
Review of Tony Burns,
Aristotle and Natural Law
(Continuum, 2011),
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
2012.06.02
Review of Henry Dyson,
Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa
(Walter de Gruyter, 2009),
Journal of the History of Philosophy,
January, 2011
PHIL 501: The Moral Psychology of Plato's
Republic
(University of Michigan)
PHIL 429: Ethical Analysis (University of Michigan)
PHIL 417: Plato's
Republic
PHIL 417: Noncognitivism in Ethics
PHIL 417: Ancient Ethical Theory
PHIL 417: Ancient Stoicism
PHIL 381: Skepticism Ancient and Modern
PHIL 343: Contemporary Metaethics
PHIL 335: Contemporary Epistemology
PHIL 301: Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophical Problems
CORE 151: Legacies of the Ancient World
Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University (upcoming, Spring 2026)
Visiting Nelson Endowed Professor, University of Michigan, Fall 2022
Fulbright Award to Germany, 2012-13
Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-09
Norman Malcolm Fellowship (Cornell, King's College London), 2006-07
"The Stoic Theory of Motivation," University of Toronto Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Seminar, March 2025
"Epictetus on Freedom and Free Action," Stanford University Ethics and Politics Ancient and Modern Research Workshop, February 2025
"The Stoic Theory of Motivation," Fudan University Shanghai, June 2024
"Stoic Freedom," Renmin University of China, June 2024
Prolêpsis, Hupolêpsis, Hormê
: The Stoic Theory of Motivation," Conference on Stoic Ethics, Renmin University of China, June 2024
"Epictetus on Freedom and Free Action," Conference on Later Stoicism, Yale University, April 2024
"Knowledge and Opinion in Early Stoicism," Conference on Ancient Metaphysics and Epistemology, Stanford University, February 2024
"The Stoic Theory of Motivation," Syracuse University Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, September 2023
“The Stoic Theory of Motivation,” Assos Academy of Philosophy (Assos, Turkey), July 2023
“The Stoics and Kant on Moral Motivation,” University of New South Wales, May 2023
“Original Sins: The Early Stoics on Moral Mistakes and Middle Duties,” University of Notre Dame Australia, May 2023
"Original Sins: The Early Stoics on Moral Mistakes and Middle Duties,” University of Michigan, January 2023
“A Stoic and Socratic Theory of Motivation,” University of Michigan, December 2022
“Original Sins: Chrysippus on Command and Prohibition,” Notre Dame Workshop in Ancient Philosophy,” November 2022
“Chrysippus on Command and Prohibition,” Fourteenth Symposium Hellenisticum, Fondation Hardt, Geneva, July 2022
“Moral Motivation in Epictetus and the Older Stoics,” University of Pittsburgh, April, 2022
“According to All the Virtues: the Older Stoics on Epistemic and Moral Perfection,” University of Pittsburg, January, 2020
“Stoicism and the Ethics of Equality,” Wesleyan University, May 2019
“The Structure of Stoic Impulse,” Balliol College, Oxford, March 2019
“Original Sins: the Stoics on Mistakes and Moral Progress,” Syracuse University SPAWN Conference, August, 2018 (comments by Brad Inwood)
Original Sins: the Stoics on Mistakes and Moral Progress,” Oxford University Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, June 2018
“Original Sins: the Stoics on Mistakes and Moral Progress,” University of St Andrews Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, May 2018
”Desire and Impulse in Epictetus and the Older Stoics,” University of Tennessee Knoxville, April 2018
”Desire and Impulse in Epictetus and the Older Stoics,” University of Pennsylvania, November 2017
“On the Guise of the Good (and the Bad) in Stoicism,” University of Toronto, March 2017 (comments by James Allen)
Orexis, Ekklisis
, and the Guise of the Good in Stoicism,” Ludwig Maximilian University Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, November, 2016
Orexis
and
Hormê
in Epictetus and the Older Stoics,” Cornell University Conference on Stoicism, September 2015 (comments by Larkin Philpot)
Orexis
and
Hormê
in Epictetus and the Older Stoics,” Northwestern University Conference in Ancient Philosophy, June 2014 (comments by John Wynne)
“What is Stoic Selection?” Hebrew University Conference in Ancient Moral Psychology,  July 2013
"Two Accounts of Stoic
oikeiôsis
" (comments by Martha Nussbaum) APA Central Division Meeting, Symposium on Stoic ethics, Feb 2010