Voula Tsouna

Voula Tsouna is Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department, University of California (Santa Barbara). She is President of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt, co-editor of the CUP series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy, and has recently been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her publications include include [Philodemus] [On Choices and Avoidances] (Naples 1995, recipient of the Theodor Mommsen Award), The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (Cambridge 1998), The Ethics of Philodemus (Oxford 2007), Plato’s Charmides. An Interpretative Commentary (Cambridge 2022), Conceptions of the Normativity of Nature (Cambridge 2026), and approximately a hundred articles on Socrates, the Minor Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic and Roman philosophers. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Civic and Human Decline in Plato’s Republic VIII-IX (Cambridge, forthcoming) and is co-editor of a two-volume collection provisionally entitled Rationality and its Limits.