Tushar Irani holds a joint appointment at Wesleyan in the Department of Philosophy and the College of Letters. His recent book, Plato on the Value of Philosophy: The Art of Argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus (Cambridge University Press, 2017), explores Plato’s views on the role and purpose of argument in civic life. You can read an interview with him about it here. In addition to his work on Plato, he has interests in questions of philosophical method, the history and practice of rhetoric, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, and the history of ethics (especially virtue ethics). He also has a strong interest in philosophy as a way of life. He is co-editing a special issue for Metaphilosophy…
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Interview with Anna Marmodoro (Durham and Oxford), editor of Ancient Philosophy Today
Anna Marmodoro is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and concomitantly an Associate Faculty Member at the University of Oxford, where she is a Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She has published widely in ancient, medieval and late antiquity philosophy; metaphysics; the philosophy of religion; and the philosophy of perception. She has been the recipient of research funding from the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, among other institutions, and with their support, has created and directs a research group working since 2011 on the metaphysics of powers. She is also the editor of a new journal, Ancient Philosophy Today: Dialogoi, which is…
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Call for Contributors to Endoxa
I am looking for additional contributors to this blog. I have some upcoming interviews and guest posts planned, but would like to get more people involved. I’m interested in posts on any topic that would be relevant to the ancient philosophy community. This could be anything from innovative teaching exercises to overviews of the available critical texts and translations for an ancient work to suggestions on how to write more productively to discussions of how to improve the field. If you are interested either in doing a guest post or becoming a regular contributor (posting once a month or so), please contact me. If you have suggestions for topics you’d like…
