Malcolm Schofield

Malcolm Schofield, (born 19 April 1942) is a British classicist and academic, specialising in ancient philosophy.

Career Having taught at Cornell University and the University of Oxford, he joined the University of Cambridge in 1972 as a lecturer in classics and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was promoted to Reader in Ancient Philosophy in 1989, and made Professor of Ancient Philosophy 1998. Since retiring in 2009, he has been an emeritus professor at Cambridge.

In 2002, Schofield was reported to be a candidate to become the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, the principal academic and administrative officer of Cambridge University.

In 1997, Schofield was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. From 2008 to 2011, Schofield served as the president of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. From 2010 to 2016 served as Chair of Council of the British School at Athens.

Selected works

Schofield, Malcom (1980). An Essay on Anaxagoras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Burnyeat, Miles; Barnes, Jonathon; Schofield, Malcolm, eds. (1980) Doubt & Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.

Schofield, Malcolm (1999).The Stoic Idea of the City. New Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Algra, Kemp; Barnes, Jonathon; Mansfeld, Jaap; Schofield, Malcolm, eds. (1999). The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Schofield, Malcom (2021). Cicero: political philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.