Books
- (with A.A. Long) The Hellenistic Philosophers
- (Cambridge 1987); vol. 1, xv + 512 pp.; vol. 2, xi + 512 pp. (German edition, tr. K. Hülser, Stuttgart 2000; French edition, tr. J. Brunschwig and P. Pellegrin,Paris, 2001)

- Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom
- (Cambridge 1998)
- paperback edition, September 2003

- (editor) The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy
- (Cambridge 2003)

- Plato’s Cratylus
- (= the Townsend Lectures, Cornell University,fall semester 2001; in M.M. McCabe, ed., Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato)(Cambridge, 2003)

- The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus
- (Oxford, May 2004; paperback edn. Sept. 2006)

- Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity
- Sather Classical Lectures 66
- (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2007)

- (ed., with A.M. Ioppolo) Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155-86 BC
- (Naples, 2007)