大象传媒

Education

• 1972 B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz (with Honors)
• 1978 M.A. University of California at Santa Barbara
• 1982 Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara

Areas of Interest

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Religion, Philosophy of Religion, History of Ethics

Current Research Projects

• "Socrates and Plato" (invited book chapter) for the History of Western Philosophy of Religion, edited by G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2007).
• Socrates and Plato on Piety: A Study of the Euthyphro (book manuscript).
• Socrates, book manuscript under contract with Acumen/University of California Press.
• "The Religious Dimension of Socratic and Platonic Moral Theory," invited book chapter for Foundations of Ancient Ethics/Grundlagen der Antiken Ethik edited by George Rudebusch and Jorg Hardy (Vandenhoek, forthcoming).
• Socrates (with N.D. Smith), book manuscript under contract with Polity Press, UK.

Publications

Books

• (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press; 1996 [pbk. 1999]

Edited Collections

• Recognition, Remembrance, and Reality: New Essays on Plato's Epistemology and Metaphysics. Apeiron Supplemental Volume 32.4 (1999)
• Wisdom, Ignorance, and Virtue: New Essays in Socratic Studies. Apeiron Supplemental Volume 30.4 (1997).

Recent Articles

• 2012 鈥淪ocratic Theology and Piety,鈥� chapter for the Continunum Companion to Socrates, edited by John Bussanich and Nicholas D. Smith (forthcoming).
  
• 2012 鈥淰irtue, Luck, and Choice at the End of the Republic,鈥� in Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Honor of David Keyt, Philosophical Studies, (2012); and chapter 7 in The Cambridge Critical Guide to the Republic, edited by Mark L. McPherran (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
  
• 2012 鈥淪ocrates鈥� Refutation of Gorgias: Gorgias 447c-461b,鈥� Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (forthcoming).
  
• 2012 鈥淪ocrates and Aesop in Plato鈥檚 Phaedo,鈥� Apeiron  (forthcoming).
  
• 2012 鈥淐omments on Chung-ying Cheng鈥檚 鈥淲orld Humanities as Based on Self-Reflection of the Human Person and Global Interaction of Traditions,鈥� Journal of Chinese Philosophy, December 2012.
  
• 2011 鈥淪antas, Socrates, and Induction,鈥� chapter for Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas. Edited by G. Anagnostopoulos, Philosophical Studies Series, v. 117 (Springer) 2001: 67-92.
  
• 2010 鈥淪ocrates and the Religious Dimension of Plato鈥檚 Thought,鈥� in G. Rudebusch and J. Hardy (eds.) Foundations of Ancient Ethics / Grundlagen der Antiken Ethik (Vandenhoek  2011) (abridged, edited version of 鈥淪ocrates and Plato鈥� in the History of Western Philosophy of Religion [2009] below).
  
• 2010 鈥淪ocrates, Plato, Er么s, and Liberal Education鈥� invited essay for the Oxford Review of Education special edition 鈥楥lassical and Modern Theories of Education,鈥� edited by C. Brooke and E. Frazer; Vol. 36, No. 5, 2010: 527-541.
  
• 2010 鈥淪ocratic Religion,鈥� Chapter 6 for The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Edited by Donald Morrison.
  
• 2010 鈥淛ustice and Piety in the Digression of the Theaetetus,鈥� Ancient Philosophy 30.1 (2010): 73-94.
  
• 2010 鈥淓xtrarational Intuition and the Elenchos in Socratic Thought,鈥� Philosophical Inquiry (2010).
  
• 2010 鈥淟ove and Medicine in Plato鈥檚 Symposium and Philebus,鈥� in L. Brisson and J. Dillon (eds.) Plato鈥檚 Philebus: Selected Papers from the Eighth Symposium Platonicum, International Plato Studies 26 (2010): 204-208.
  
• 2010 鈥淪ocratic Piety and the Life of Philosophy,鈥� (in French) chapter for Socrates鈥� Ethics (Librairie philosophique J. Vrin: Paris). Edited by Pierre Destr茅e and Louis-Andr茅 Dorion.
  
• Hypertext Books (WWW + CD-ROM): Plato's Sophist (with George Rudebusch [NAU] for Project Archelogos, University of Edinburgh; forthcoming, 2009.
• 2008 "Socrates and Plato" (invited book chapter) for the History of Western Philosophy of Religion, edited by G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Chesham, UK: Acumen, forthcoming).
• 2008 "Virtue, Luck, and Choice at the End of the Republic," Philosophical Inquiry (forthcoming).
• 2008 "Santas, Socrates, and Induction," Philosophical Inquiry (forthcoming).
• 2006 "Medicine, Magic, and Religion in Plato's Symposium," chapter for Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception (Harvard, 2006). Edited by J. Lesher, D. Hails, and F. Sheffield.
• 2006 "Socratic Epagoge and Socratic Induction," Journal of the History of Philosophy.
• 2006 "Platonic Religion," chapter for The Blackwell Companion to Plato. Edited by Hugh Benson.
• 2006 "The Piety and Gods of Plato's Republic," in G. Santas (ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic (Blackwell, 2006): ch. 5 (84-103).
    

Recent Lectures and Presentations

• 2012 鈥淥n the Myth of Plato鈥檚 Socratic Period,鈥� invited symposium presentation, Pacific Division Meeting of the APA; Seattle, April. 
  
• 2012 Commentator on Chung-ying Cheng鈥檚 鈥淲orld Humanities as Based on Self-Reflection of the Human Person and Global Interaction of Traditions,,鈥� 大象传媒 Symposium on World Humanities, January. 
  
• 2011 鈥淪ocrates and Aesop in Plato鈥檚 Phaedo,鈥� the 4th West Coast Plato Workshop, Lewis & Clark College, May. 
  
• 2011 鈥淪ocrates鈥� Refutation of Gorgias: Gorgias 447c-461b,鈥� invited presentation, 2011 Austin J. Fagothey SJ Philosophy Conference, University of Santa Clara, February; 16thAnnual Arizona Colloqium in Ancient Philosophy, February; invited talk, Norte Dame University Ancient Philosophy Workshop series, September; and the 大象传媒 Philosophy Colloquium series, November. 
  
• 2010 鈥淪ocrates, Plato, Er么s, and Liberal Education,鈥� Keynote Address, 1st Annual Northwestern Philosophy Conference, Lewis and Clark College, September.
  
• 2010 鈥淭he Gods of the Republic,鈥� International Plato Society IX Symposium, Tokyo, August, 2010. 
  
• 2010 鈥淟ove and Medicine in Plato's Symposium and Philebus,鈥� for the UC Berkeley Working Group in Ancient Philosophy, April, 2010. 
  
• 2010 鈥淪ocrates, Plato, Er么s, and Liberal Education,鈥� and 鈥淪ocratic Religion,鈥� for the Fleishhacker Chair Lecture Series, USF, March, 2010. 
  
• 2010 Commentator on John Bussanich鈥檚 Comments on 鈥淟iberation and Bondage in the Phaedrus Myth,鈥� Third Annual West Coast Plato Workshop: Plato鈥檚 Phaedrus; UC San Diego, May.
    

Service to the Profession

• 2007-10: Member, Program Committee, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.
• 2005-08: Member, the Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy, American Philosophical Association.
• 2000-present: Editorial Board Member of Apeiron (appointed 2/2000).
• 1996-present: Founder, Organizer, and Director: The Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, University of Arizona