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David Wolfsdorf

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Director, Graduate Student Teaching Mentor Program


Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997
 
Professor Wolfsdorf specializes in Ancient Greek philosophy. He has wide-ranging interests, particularly in ethics and meta-philosophy


Selected Bibliography
"Desire for Good in Meno 77B2-78B6," Classical Quarterly 56 (2006) 77-92

"Hippias Major 301b2-c2: Plato's Critique of a Corporeal Conception of Forms
and the Form-Participant Relation," Apeiron 39 (2006) 122-56

"The Ridiculousness of Being Overcome by Pleasure: Protagoras 352b1-358d4,"
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2006) 113-36

"Courage and Knowledge at Protagoras 349E1-351B2," Classical Quarterly 56
(2006) 436-44

"The Irony of Socrates," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2007) 175-87

Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy, Oxford University Press,
2007

"Philia in Plato's Lysis," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, forthcoming, 2008

"Rhetoric's Inadequate Means: Gorgias 466a4-468e5," Classical Philology,
forthcoming, 2008

"The Method eks hupotheseos at Meno 86e1-87d8," Phronesis, forthcoming, 2008

"Hesiod, Prodicus, and the Socratics on Work and Pleasure," Oxford Studies in
Ancient Philosophy
, forthcoming, 2008

 

Recent Courses
• Pleasure in Greek Philosophy
• Aristotle's Metaphysics

Contact Information
Office: 748 Anderson Hall

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-3262

dwolfsdo@temple.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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