Professor of Philosophy
Chair, Thomas Hunter Honors Program
Ph.D. 1974, University of California, San Diego
Specializes in ancient philosophy, history of philosophy, and history of ideas. Has published articles in International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Neoplatonic Studies, History and Theory, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Augustinianum, Augustinian Studies, and the APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy. He has contributed chapters to several recent collections, including the chapter on Plato in the Columbia History of Western Philosophy (1998), of which he was also editor for ancient philosophy and the Continuum/Bloomsbury Guide to Plato 92012 / 2015), of which he was editor.
Books:
Editor, The Bloomsbury Guide to Plato (Bloomsbury Publishers, 2015)
Editor, The Continuum Guide to Plato (Continuum International Publishers, 2012)
Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum International Publishers, 2007)
Editor Who Speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity (Roman & Littlefield, 2000)
Editor, Plato's Dialogues: New Studies and Interpretations (Roman & Littlefield, 1993)
Study Guide for Thinking Logically (Prentice-Hall, 1988)
The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity (McGill-Queens University Press, 1982; reprinted 2003)
Recent Articles
“The Enactment of Moderation in Plato’s Charmides.” Forthcoming in Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis 54 (2018).
“The State of the Question in the Study of Plato: 20 Year Update.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 55 (2018), 9-35.
“The State of the Question in the Study of Plato: 15 Year Update,” in Russian translation, in Платоновский сборник (Platonic Papers), edited by Irina Protopopova. Moscow, 2013. Vol. 1, pp. 48-74.
“Early, Middle, and Late Platonic Provocation: Comments on Miriam Byrd’s “When the Middle Comes Early,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy, 28 (2012), 210-16.
“Digital Transitions,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2012), 471-76.
Recent Chapters
“Changing Course in Plato Studies,” pp. 187-96 in Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato, edited by Debra Nails and Harold Tarrant. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2015.
“History as Story: The Early Roman Empire and the Rhetorical Use of History by the Early Christians.” Reprint of The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity, ch. 3 in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 106 (2008), 160-74.
“The State of the Question in the Study of Plato,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 34 (1996), 507-32; reprinted Smith, Nicholas D, ed., Plato: Critical Assessments. London: Routledge, 1998. Vol. I: 309-32; Russian translation in Платоновский сборник (Platonic Papers), edited by Irina Protopopova. Moscow, 2013. Vol. I, pp. 8-47.
Recent Book Reviews:
Boys-Stones, George, Dimitri El Murr and Christopher Gill (edd.). The Platonic art of philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.5.28.
Thomas Tuozzo, Plato’s Charmides: Positive Elenchus in a Socratic Dialogue. Journal of the History of Philosophy. 51 (2013), 310-11
Catherine Zuckert, Plato’s Philosophers. Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2012), 133-135.
Christopher Rowe, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing. The Classical Review 59 (2009), 54-56.
Migliori, Maurizio, Linda M. Napolitano Valditara and Davide Del Forno (edd.). Plato ethicus: philosophy is life. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.12.05/
Rebecca Benson Cain, Plato’s Use of Philosophical Drama. Philosophy in Review 28.5 (October 2008), 322-24
Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception, eds. James Lesher, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield. Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008), 167-68.
Michail Maiatsky. Platon: penseur du visual. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2005. Journal of the History of Philosophy July, 2007.
Editing and Organizing:
From 1990-1997, he was Book Review Editor of The Journal of the History of Philosophy. From 1998-2003 he was Editor of The Journal. From 1991 to 2001 he was on the Program Committee of The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy organizing panels at the Annual Meeting. In 1994 he co-chaired a conference on "The Uses of Plato's Republic" at Hunter College. In 1997 he co-chaired the New York City International Philosophy Conference at Hunter College. He was co-chair of the Second Annual New York City International Conference on the History of Philosophy and Religion, held at Hunter College May 1-3, 1998.
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