Education:

Ph.D., Philosophy, Cornell University

M.A., Philosophy, Cornell University

B.A., Philosophy, awarded with Highest Distinction, University of Virginia

Research:

Dr. Hensley specializes in the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.  His published research focuses on the philosophy of the ancient Stoics, especially their physics and metaphysics.  He also has interests in contemporary philosophical discussions in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and ethics. 

Teaching:

Dr. Hensely currently teaches Philosophy 340: Ancient Greek Philosophy.  At his previous institutions, Dr. Hensley has taught many courses in the history of philosophy, which have focused on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicurus, medieval Arabic and Latin philosophy, and early modern philosophy.  Additionally, he has regularly taught general introductory philosophy and introductory logic and reasoning.  In the past, he has also supervised student projects on the relation between Stoicism and popular self-help, on the concept of posthumous harm, and on the images of the line and the cave in Plato's Republic, among other topics.

Select Publications:

"The Stoics and Anaximenes on Basic Corporeal Change" in Stoic Presocratics - Presocratic Stoics: Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy, edited by Christian Vassallo, Michele Alessandrelli, and Stavros Kouloumentas, forthcoming. 

"Elements and Matter in Diogenes Laertius 7.137" in Classical Philology 118, no. 2 (2023): 273-281.

"The Physics of Stoic Cosmogony" in Apeiron 5, no. 2 (2021): 161-187.

"The Physics of Pneuma in Early Stoicism" in The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle, edited by Sean Coughlin, David Leith, and Orly Lewis (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 171-201. 

"Stoic Epistemology" in The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, edited by Kelly Arenson (New York: Routledge, 2020), 137-147.

"On the Separability and Inseparability of the Stoic Principles" in the Journal of the History of Philosophy 56, no. 2 (2018): 187-214. 

"Chrysippus's Elemental Theory" in Ancient Philosophy 37, no. 2 (2017): 361-385.