PROF. RAPHAEL WOOLF
Honorary Professor in Philosophy
Raphael Woolf is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at KCL. After undergraduate study in Classics at Cambridge, he received his MPhil (1993) and PhD (1997) in Philosophy at King’s. His main interests are in ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy. Recent work includes a monograph on Plato’s Charmides and the edited volume Cicero’s De Officiis: A Critical Guide (both 2023). He is author of Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic (2015) and co-editor (with Verity Harte) of Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017). He has translated Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics (with Brad Inwood, 2013), and Cicero’s De Finibus (‘On Moral Ends’, edited by Julia Annas, 2001), and has published articles on Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy. Before returning to King’s in 2006, he was Assistant then Associate Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, and was visiting Professor of Philosophy at Yale University in Fall 2012.
