A.B., Ph.D. Princeton (1978, 1987)
also graduate work at Cornell and Harvard (Classics)

Areas of Specialization:
Ancient philosophy, in all its periods.

Professor Mann joined the department in the fall of 1992.  In 1991-92 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Previously he held visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, Middlebury College, and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst); he has also been a Mellon Post-Doctoral Scholar at Johns Hopkins.

He is the author of: The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context (Princeton, 2000).

Recent articles include:

• "Learning How to Die: Seneca's Use of Aeneid 4, 653 at Epistulae morales 12, 9" in: K. Volk and G. Williams, eds., Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics (Leiden, 2006), 103-122.

• "Plato in Tübingen," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 31 (2006), 349-400.

• "Was kann man von Euthydemos und seinem Bruder lernen," in: C. Rapp and T. Wagner, eds., Wissen und Bildung in der antiken Philosophie (Stuttgart, 2006), 103-126.

Teaching
PHIL G9121 Plato