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Education

University of Chicago

Ph.D., philosophy, 1995 (M.A. 1989).

Stanford University

B.A. with honors and distinction, philosophy and relgious studies, 1987.

Employment

  • 8/04–present. Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona. Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure Track)
  • 9/00–6/04. Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan. Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure Track)
  • 7/95–6/00. Department of Philosophy, Williams College. Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure Track)
  • 8/94–6/95. Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology. Teaching Fellow
  • 1/89–3/92. Department of Philosophy and Continuing Education Program, University of Chicago. Instructor and Teaching Assistant

Awards

  • Laurance Rockefeller Center for Human Values Fellowship, Princeton University, 2004–2005
  • University of Michigan Horace Rackham Summer Fellowship, Summer 2003
  • Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, 2000 (non-stipendiary)
  • Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998–1999
  • Teaching Fellowship, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1994–1995
  • Mellon Dissertation Year Fellowship 1993–1994
  • Ames Fellowship 1992–1993
  • University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship 1988–1992

Publications

Scholarly books

  • A Companion to Socrates (co-editor, with Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, Blackwell, 2006)
  • Critical Essays on Plato’s Euthyphro, Crito, and Apology (editor; Rowman and Littlefield, 2004)

Chapters in scholarly books

  • “Plato on Education and Art,” forthcoming in Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Plato
  • “Updating Practical Wisdom” forthcoming in C. Upton (ed.), Virtue Ethics, Character and Moral Psychology (Oxford University Press)
  • “The Politics of Plato’s Socrates,” in Ahbel-Rappe and Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, (Blackwell 2006), pp. 214-27
  • “Distinction without a Difference? Plato on ‘Genos’ vs. ‘Race’,” in J. Ward and T. Lott (eds.) Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 1-13

Refereed journal articles

  • “Speaking with the Same Voice as Reason: Personification in Plato’s Psychology,” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. XXXI, Winter 2006, pp. 167-202
  • “Plato on the Attribution of Conative Attitudes,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Band 88, Fall 2006, pp. 127-62
  • “The Profession of Friendship: Callicles, Democratic Politics, and Rhetorical Education in Plato’s Gorgias,” Ancient Philosophy, Fall 2005, pp. 319-39
  • “What’s the Good of Agreeing?: Homonoia in Platonic Politics,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. XXVI, Summer 2004, pp. 131-70
  • “Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character,” Ethics, vol. 114, no. 3, April 2004, pp. 458-91
  • “Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic: Plato’s Two Principles,” History of Political Thought vol. 22, 2001, pp. 189-220
  • “Imperfect Virtue,” Ancient Philosophy 18, Fall 1998, pp. 315-39
  • “Aidôs in Epictetus,” Classical Philology 93, April 1998, pp. 136-60

Book Reviews

  • Warren, Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (forthcoming in Philosophical Review)
  • Gill (ed.) Virtue, Norms and Objectivity, Polis vol. 23 no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 418-26
  • Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Ancient Philosophy vol. 24 no. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 228-32
  • Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, and Sex and Social Justice, Philosophical Review, April 2002, pp. 262-70
  • Koziak, Retrieving Political Emotion, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2002, pp. 826-29
  • Annas, Platonic Ethics Old and New, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 1999 (7 pp.)
  • Hadot, The Inner Citadel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, November 1998 (8 pp.)

Encyclopedia Entries

  • “Character”, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Scribner, 2005), pp. 297-99

Bibliography

  • Annotated bibliography for Plato’s Republic (tr. Lee, Penguin, 2003), pp. lix-lxix

Comments published in conference/colloquium proceedings

  • “The Good and Order: Does the Republic Display an Analogy between a Science of Ethics and Mathematics?” (reply to Christopher Gill, “The Good and Mathematics”, forthcoming in T. Penner (ed.) Pursuing the Good, Edinburgh University Press)
  • “Good Feelings and Motivation: Comment on John Cooper, ‘The Emotional Life of the Wise’,” Southern Journal of Philosophy supplementary volume 2005, pp. 219-29
  • “Philosophical Rule from the Republic to the Laws: Commentary on Schofield,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 13, 1997, pp. 242-54

Other

  • “Why Life-Saving Drugs Should be Public Goods,” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics vol. 12 (3) (July-September 2004)

Works in Progress

  • “The Powers of Plato’s Psychology,” (for Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy lecture 2007)
  • “Psychology and the Inculcation of Virtue in Plato’s Last Dialogues,” (for a volume on Plato’s Laws, ed. Christopher Bobonich, Cambridge University Press, projected publication 2008)
  • “Knowledge by Likeness,” (under review)
  • “Desire and the Good in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus”
  • “Self-deception” (for Philosophy Compass)
  • “Marcus Aurelius’ for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Reviews of Brennan, The Stoic Life for Mind, Heinaman (ed.) Plato and Aristotle’s Ethics for Classical Review

Scholarly Presentations

  • “Eros in Plato’s Phaedrus,” American Philosophical Association [APA] Central Division Symposium on Eros, April 19, 2007
  • “Empirical Challenges to Moral Agency,” Georgetown University Philosophy Colloquium, March 30, 2007
  • “The Powers of Plato’s Psychology,” Arizona State University Philosophy Department Colloquium, February 23, 2007
  • “Psychology and the Inculcation of Virtue in Plato’s Last Dialogues,” University of Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 17, 2007
  • “Updating Practical Wisdom,” Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) conference on Self-Knowledge and Agency, January 11, 2007 (earlier version read at University of Denver conference on Virtue Ethics and Moral Psychology, October 7, 2005)
  • Comments for Author-Meets-Critics on David Sedley, The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus, Pacific APA, March 25, 2006
  • Comments for Author-Meets-Critics on Michael White, An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Pacific APA, March 23, 2006
  • Comment on Rachel Barney, “Gorgias’s Defence: Plato and his Opponents on Rhetoric and the Good,” University of Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Feb. 17, 2006
  • “Plato on Desiring the Good,” read at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Philosophy Colloquium, October 15, 2005 (also read at Stanford University Philosophy Department February 2005; earlier versions read at Seminar on Plato, University of Edinburgh, April 9, 2003, McGill University Department of Philosophy, October 27, 2000, and University of California-Berkeley Conference on Ancient Philosophy, November 18, 2000)
  • “Speaking With the Same Voice as Reason: Personification in Plato’s psychology,” University of Toronto Conference on the Divided Self, April 15-17, 2005, also read at Pacific APA, March 2005 (earlier version read at Edinburgh Philosophy Society, November 2003)
  • Comment on Christopher Gill, “Mathematics and the Good,” University of Edinburgh Leventis Conference, March 4, 2005
  • “The Politics of Plato’s Socrates,” University of Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2005
  • “Like Knows Like?” University of Michigan Classical Studies and Philosophy conference on Philosophy Before Socrates, January 28, 2005 (also read at Stanford University dedicated lecture for undergraduates February 2005)
  • Comment on John Cooper, “The Emotional Life of the Wise,” Spindel Conference, University of Memphis, October 9, 2004
  • Comment on Clerk Shaw, “Socrates and the True Political Art: Gorgias 521d6-8,” Central APA, April 25, 2004
  • Comment on Gerasimos Santas, “Methods of Reasoning about Justice in Plato’s Republic” University of Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 21, 2004
  • Comment on Giorgios Anagnostopoulos, “Ancient Greek Views of Medicine and their Implications,” Platsis Symposium on Bioethics, Ancient and Modern, University of Michigan, September 21, 2003
  • “The Healthy City and the Fevered City: Plato’s Republic on Desire and Education,” University of Arizona Colloquium on Plato, February 20, 2003
  • “Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character,” read at SUNY Binghamton SPEP seminar, October 24, 2002, and at Michigan State University Philosophy Colloquium, November 16, 2001
  • “What’s the Good of Agreeing?: Homonoia in Plato’s Politics,” University of Michigan Departmental Faculty Colloquium, October 11, 2002, also read to Cornell University Ancient Philosophy Colloquium Series, September 20, 2002, University of Toronto Department of Classics, January 26, 2002, and University of California-Berkeley Department of Philosophy, February 1, 2001
  • Comment on Eric Brown, “Minding the Gap in Plato’s Republic”, Chicago Ancient Philosophy Conference in honor of Ian Mueller, April 20, 2002
  • Comment on David Keyt, “Plato’s Ship of State,” Pacific APA March 28, 2002
  • “Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic,” APA Symposium on Greek Ethics, April 21, 2000 (also read at University of Michigan Department of Philosophy, January 19, 2000, and Edinburgh University Department of Philosophy, October 29, 1999)
  • Comment on George Rudebusch, “Socratic Perfectionism,” Pacific APA March 31, 2001
  • “Three Characters and Three Virtues: Hume, Cicero and Aristotle on Greatness, Goodness and Strength of Mind,” (with Kate Abramson), Midwest Early Modern Conference, Milwaukee, December 5, 1999
  • “Plato on Race,” APA Central Division, May 6, 1999
  • Comment on Mi-Kyoung Lee, “Thinking and Perception in Plato’s Theaetetus,” read at University of Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 21, 1999
  • “Political Justification in Plato,” Roberts Lecture at Grinnell College, February 16, 1999
  • “The Profession of Friendship: Plato’s Criticism of Rhetoric and Democratic Politics,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy in conjunction with the American Philological Association meetings, December 30 1998 (also read at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Greek Philosophy workshop, December 11, 1998)
  • Comment on Mark LeBar, “Friends and Selves,” Eastern APA December 29, 1998
  • “Plato on Women, Work and Education,” University of Chicago workshop in Ancient Philosophy, November 20, 1998
  • “Imperfect Virtue,” University of Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 13, 1998
  • Comment on Malcolm Schofield, “The Disappearance of the Philosopher-Kings,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, April 3 1997
  • Comment on Jeffrey Turner, “The Unity of Virtue Argument in Meno 71e-79e,” Eastern APA December 1995

Presentations to non-scholarly audiences

  • Guest on National Public Radio Talk of the Nation, April 12, 2007, to discuss ethical choices
  • “Is Death an Evil?” at Cornucopia: Exploring the Humanities, University of Michigan, October 2, 2003
  • “Plato and Feminism,” Southwest Vermont Teachers' Conference, Bennington, October 1997