Department of Philosophy

• A.B., Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), 2002
  
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), 2008

• Ancient Philosophy
• Socrates
• Aesthetics
• Democratic Theory

• Ancient Philosophy
• Political and Social Philosophy
• Greek

• “Chaerephon, Telephus, and Cure in Plato’s Gorgias,” Arethusa (forthcoming May 2012)
• “The Myth of Theuth in the Phaedrus,” in Status, Uses and Function of Plato’s Myths, Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée, Francisco Gonzalez, edd. (Brill, forthcoming Spring 2012)
• “Socratic Persuasion in the Crito,” British Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming November 2011)
• “Appearance and Reality,” in A Companion to Plato, Francisco Gonzalez, Debra Nails, Gerald Press, Harold Tarrant, edd. (Continuum, forthcoming)

Reviews for Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews of L. Apfel, The Advent of Pluralism: diversity and conflict in the age of Sophocles; T. Blackson, Ancient Greek Philosophy; L. Castagnola, Ancient Self-Refutation: the logic and history of the self-refutation argument from Democritus to Augustine; V. Bychkov and A. Sheppard, edd. Greek and Roman Aesthetics: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; M. Puchner, The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy; M. Schofield, ed., T. Griffith, tr., Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras; W. Wians, ed., Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature; S. Goldhill, ed., The End of Dialogue in Antiquity; A. Tschemplik, Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus; J. Ober, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens.

• Studies of Plato’s Phaedrus, Clitophon, and Charmides
• The origins of “philosopher” (philosophos) as a name
• The virtue of “forethought” (promêtheia) in ancient thought