Malcolm Schofield, (born 19 April 1942) is a British

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and academic, specialising in

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. Having taught at

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and the

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, he joined the

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in 1972 as a lecturer in classics and a

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of St John's College, Cambridge. He was promoted to

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in Ancient Philosophy in 1989, and made Professor of Ancient Philosophy 1998. Since retiring in 2009, he has been an

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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 1989 to 2003, Schofield was Honorary Secretary of the

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, and from 2006 to 2007 he served as its president. From 2008 to 2011, Schofield served as the President of the

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. From 2010 to 2016 served as Chair of Council of the British School at Athens.

Selected works

*Schofield, Malcom (1980). ''An Essay on Anaxagora''s''.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521042611 *Burnyeat, Miles; Barnes, Jonathon; Schofield, Malcolm, eds. (1980) ''Doubt & Dogmatism: Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology.'' Oxford: The Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198246015 * * *Schofield, Malcolm (1999).''The Stoic Idea of the City''. New Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226740065 *Algra, Kemp; Barnes, Jonathon; Mansfeld, Jaap; Schofield, Malcolm, eds. (1999). ''The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosoph''y. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 9781139053617. * * * *Schofield, Malcom (2021). ''Cicero: political philosophy''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199684922.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schofield, Malcolm 1942 births Living people British classical scholars Scholars of ancient philosophy Cornell University faculty Classical scholars of the University of Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of classics Fellows of the British Academy Presidents of the Classical Association