Charles Francis Brittain

Charles Francis Brittain (born 1966) is an American philosopher who is the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters at Cornell University. He specializes in ancient philosophy, specifically Hellenistic philosophy. His work lies within the Platonic tradition and draws on texts from Cicero, Augustine, and Simplicius.

Books Philo of Larissa. The last of the Academic sceptics. Oxford, 2001 Cicero: On Academic Scepticism. Hackett. 2006 Simplicius On Epictetus Handbook 1-26 (ed.). London & Ithaca, 2002 Simplicius On Epictetus Handbook 27-53. London & Ithaca, 2002, trans. with Tad Brennan, for the series The Greek commentators on Aristotle Plato: The Divided Self, edited with T. Brennan & R. Barney, Cambridge, 2012