Philosophy

Max Robitzsch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He received his MA from the University of Cologne (Germany) and was a visiting student at the University of Paris IV - Sorbonne (France);  his PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the University of Florida in fall 2024, he worked at Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea), the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Greifswald (Germany)

Selected Publications

Books

• Forthcoming: Epikur: Eine hellenistische Alternative zur Stoa [Epicurus: A Hellenistic Alternative to the Stoa]. Reclam. (co-authored with Andree Hahmann)
• 2024: Epicurean Justice: Nature, Agreement, and Virtue. Cambridge University Press.
• 2018: Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato’s Menexenus. Berlin: De Gruyter. (co-edited with Harold Parker)

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Forthcoming: “Epicurean Feelings (pathē) as Criteria.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
• Forthcoming: "Justice and the Virtues." In The Philosophy of Epicurus: A Guide. Edited by Phillip Mitsis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2024: “Gegen wen ist Kuria Doxa 33 gerichtet?” [Against whom is Kuria Doxa 33 directed?]. Mnemosyne.
• 2024: “Democritus on Human Nature and Sociability.” Ancient Philosophy 44, no.1: 1-15.
• 2023: “Protagoras on How Political Communities Come to Be.” Classical Philology 118, no. 3: 387-398.
• 2022: “Epicurus on Justice ‘In Itself’ (kath’ heauto) (Kuria Doxa 33).” Apeiron 55, no. 3: 443-453.
• 2022: “A Functional Reading of the Epicurean Classification of Desires.” Apeiron 55, no. 2: 193-217.
• 2022: “Epicurus’ Non-Propositional Theory of Truth.” Mnemosyne 75, no. 5: 739-758. (co-authored with Andree Hahmann)
• 2021: “epibolē tēs dianoias: Reflections on the Fourth Epicurean Criterion of Truth.” Classical Quarterly 71, no. 4: 601-616.
• 2021: “Epicurus’ Divine Hedonism.” Mnemosyne 74, no. 3: 401-422. (co-authored with Andree Hahmann)
• 2020: “The Presentation of the Epicurean Virtues.” Apeiron 53, no. 4: 419-435.
• 2020: “‘I wrote it in part because of you:’ Broch and Arendt on Human Rights.” History of Political Thought 41, no. 1: 175-190.
• 2020: “On Real and Simulated Relationships in Spike Jonze’s Her.” Film and Philosophy 24: 120-133.
• 2020: "Epicurus on What There Is." In Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy. Edited by Kelly Arensen. 204-214. London and New York: Routledge.
• 2019: “The Genesis of Hannah Arendt’s Conception of Human Rights.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 57, no. 2: 240-258.