Samuel Baker

Bio

Samuel Baker specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, especially the ethics of Aristotle.  He received an MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University. He has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

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Research Interests

• Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Selected Publications

• "Nicomachean Revision in the Common Books: The Case of NE 6. (≈EE 5.) 2," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 63 (2024): 193-236. 
• "'In a Complete Life' (NE I 7, 1198a18): Aristotle on the Human Good, Time and Immortality," Ancient Philosophy 45.1 (2025): 193-220.
• "A Monistic Conclusion to Aristotle's Ergon Argument: The Human Good as the Best Achievement of a Human," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103.3 (2021): 373-403
• "Aristotle on the Nature and Politics of Medicine," Apeiron, 54.4 (2021): 411-449
• "What is the 'best and most perfect virtue'?" Analysis 79 (2019): 387-393
• “The Metaphysics of Goodness in the Ethics of Aristotle,” Philosophical Studies 174 (2017), 1839-1856

• “The Concept of Ergon: Towards an Achievement Interpretation of Aristotle’s ‘Function Argument’,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 48 (2015): 227-266

Courses

• PHL 131 Introduction to Ethics
• PHL 240 Western Philosophy: Classical
• PHL 351 Philosophy of Religion
• PHL 433 Advanced Ethical Theory
• LG 101 and 102 Introductory Latin
• LG 201 and 202 Intermediate Latin
• LG 141 and 142 Introductory Classical Greek