John Wynne portrait
  • Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures
  • Coördinator, Religious Studies Program, World Languages and Cultures
  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy
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Research Keywords

  • Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • Ancient Roman Philosophy
  • Classical Latin Language or Literature
  • Classical Greek Language or Literature
  • Cicero
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Epistemology
  • History of Christian thought
  • Religious Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Patristics
  • History of Philosophy
  • Philosophical Literature
  • Hellenistic
  • Roman

Presentations

  • ''Materia' in Cicero's philosophical works', for the international conference series The Elusive Substrate: Prime Matter and Hylomorphism from Ancient Rome to Qing China, organized by Nicola Poloni at KU Leuven. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/14/2021.
    https://potestas-essendi.com/elusivesubstrate/
  • 'Cicero on parental love', invited presentation on a panel on Cicero's ethics, at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy annual conference, Christopher Newport University. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/16/2019.
  • Presentation on Cicero's Timaeus at workshop on Cicero's Timaeus, Department of Classics, University of Toronto. Presentation, Presented, 04/21/2019.

Research/Scholarship Projects

  • ‘The family in De Officiis’. PI: J. P. F. Wynne. 11/01/2019 - present.
  • ‘The argument of Cicero’s On Fate: a philosophical reconstruction.'. PI: J. P. F. Wynne. 01/01/2019 - present.
  • The Lust of the Eyes: The Inordinate Desire for Truth in Ancient Thought. PI: J. P. F. Wynne. 01/01/2019 - present.
  • The problem of evil in ancient philosophy. PI: John Wynne. 01/01/2018 - present.

Languages

  • Ancient Greek (to 1453), fluent.
  • Arabic, basic.
  • French, basic.
  • German, basic.
    Merely a reading knowledge.
  • Latin, fluent.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Greece
    in antiquity.
  • Holy See
  • Italy
    in antiquity.
  • Northern Africa
    in antiquity.
  • Southern Europe
    in antiquity.
  • Western Asia
    in antiquity.

Publications

  • J. P. F. Wynne (2023). 'The Family in De Officiis' in Raphael Woolf (ed.), Cicero's De Officiis: A Critical Guide. Cambridge University Press. Published, 10/31/2023.
  • J. P. F. Wynne & Jacob Klein and Nathan Powers (2021). 'Ethics from the Old to the New Academies', for the Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy. Oxford UP. Accepted, 09/17/2021.
  • J. P. F. Wynne (2020). ‘Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations: a sceptical reading.’ in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Oxford University Press. Vol. 58, 205–238. Published, 11/17/2020.
  • J. P. F. Wynne & (Brad Inwood & James Warren eds.) (2020). ‘Cicero on the soul’s sensation of itself: Tusculans 1.49-76’ in Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. Published, 06/01/2020.
  • J. P. F. Wynne (2019). Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination.. Cambridge University Press. Published, 10/01/2019.
  • J. P. F. Wynne & (Baron Reed & Diego Machuca eds.) (2018). 'Cicero' in Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present. (pp. 93-101). Bloomsbury Academic. Published, 01/2018.
  • J. P. F. Wynne (2015). ‘Learned and Wise: Cotta the Sceptic in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum.’ in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Oxford University Press. Vol. 47. Published, 06/01/2015.
  • J. P. F. Wynne (2012). ‘God’s Indifferents: Why Cicero’s Stoic Jupiter Made The World’ in Apeiron. De Gruyter. Vol. 45. Published, 02/01/2012.