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Published & Forthcoming Work
Published & Forthcoming Work
Books:
Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle (edited volume), co-editor with Patricia Marechal. Oxford University Press, 2026.
Available here (see publisher for description).
Journal Articles:
"Trapped in the Cave: Toward a Platonic Theory of Ideology", in European Journal of Philosophy, early view.
"The Powers of the Soul and the Pure Pleasures of Learning in Plato's Philebus", in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy volume LXV, 61-88, 2026.
“Identity and Difference in Kind: The Metaphysics of Pleasure at the Beginning of Plato’s Philebus”, in Philosophers' Imprint 25, 2025
"Summoning Intelligence as Psychological Liberation in Plato: Republic VII", British Journal of the History of Philosophy 33, no.1, 977-998, 2025.
“A Story of Corruption: False Pleasure and Plato’s Methodological Critique of Hedonism in the Philebus”, Ancient Philosophy 2024, vol. 44, no.2, 363-384.
“Plato, Sophist 259c7-d7: Contrary Predication and Genuine Refutation”, in The Classical Quarterly 2023, vol.73, no.1, 66-77.
“Plato on Natural Kinds: The Promethean Method of the Philebus”, in Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, 2022, vol. 55, no.2, 305-327
“Ethical Narratives and Oppositional Consciousness”, in APA Studies, Spring 2021, vol. 20, no.3, 11-15
“The Cause of Cosmic Rotation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics xii 6-7”, in Ancient Philosophy, 2020, vol. 40, no.2, 349-367
Book Chapters
"Ancient Greek Philosophy of Race: A Genealogical Approach" (with Patricia Marechal), Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle (see above)
“Plato’s Scientific Feminism: Collection and Division in Republic V’s ‘First Wave’” (with Rachana Kamtekar), Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy, eds. Sara Brill and Catharine McKeen, Routledge Publishing, 2024, 217-234.
Link to volume here.
“Division and Proto-Racialism in the Statesman”, in misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask, eds. Matthew Clemente, Bryan J. Cocchiara, and William J. Hendel, Routledge Publishing, 2022, 188-201.
Other published work:
Review of Kevin Corrigan, A less familiar Plato: from Phaedo to Philebus, Cambridge University Press, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (here).
“Hedonism”, entry in Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Springer, forthcoming.
Work in Progress
Work in Progress
Freeing the Mind: Plato on Psychological Liberation. (Under contract with Oxford University Press)
What does it mean to free your mind? This book reconstructs a Platonic answer by tracing Plato’s association of philosophy with the liberation of the soul across the Phaedo, Republic, Theaetetus, and Sophist. Rather than being a project of inner cultivation only, the book argues that Plato offers an emancipatory social theory. Philosophy is a collaborative practice that reconfigures the individual, both internally and in their relations to others, by developing their capacity to think and speak for the sake of truth. In its fully developed form, philosophy is a practice of rational self-determination. For Plato, then, philosophy is a kind of social revolution, and his defense of it should be understood as a defense of radical social freedom. At the same time, philosophy is a social activity incorporated into the division of labor. It is therefore a limited liberation project. To this end, the book reconstructs the significance of elitism and the institution of slavery in Plato’s theory. Along the way, it puts Plato’s ideas in dialogue with modern accounts of the relationship between mental and social liberation. Thus, this book offers a charitable, nuanced, and clear-eyed reconstruction of a significant but neglected area of Plato’s thought. It resists both triumphalist and dismissive perspectives on Plato, instead asking the reader to take seriously the promises and challenges Plato’s theory of psychological liberation exposes.
I am also working on a few papers (email for drafts):
A paper on the social theory at work Republic Book VIII
A paper defending a unified conception of the social mediation of death and dying.
A paper on the relationship between method and metaphyics in Plato's Parmenides.
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Dissertation
Dissertation
Classifying Difference and Value: The Metaphysics of Kinds and the Search for the Good in Plato’s Philebus
Abstract: Plato’s Philebus is a late dialogue that records a dispute between a hedonist (Philebus/Protarchus) and an advocate of the superiority of knowledge to pleasure (Socrates). This dissertation argues that it advances Plato’s late method and metaphysics in the context of the ethical project at the heart of the dialogue: acquiring knowledge of the nature of the good human life. It demonstrates how Plato uses his method of collection and division, its corresponding metaphysics of kinds, and a teleological natural philosophy to continue his exploration of a science or expertise in morality familiar from dialogues like the Republic and Protagoras. Moreover, it puts Plato in conversation with topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of science, and social philosophy.
Committee: Rachana Kamtekar (Chair), Tad Brennan, Scott MacDonald, Julia Annas (external)
Available in the Cornell digital repository: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/110625
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