Office Hours Fall 2009

T 5:15-6:15, W 1:00-2:00 and by appointment

Interests include:  ancient Greek philosophy, recent continental European philosophy, psychoanalytic theory.

She is the author of Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics:  Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction (State University of New York Press, 2002).  Her essays on Aristotle's ethics have appeared in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV: Aristotle's Ethics (State University of New York Press), Crossroads of Norm and Nature:  Essays on Aristotle's 'Ethics' and 'Metaphysics' (Rowman and Littlefield), Feminism and Ancient Philosophy (Routledge). Her essay, "The Eternal and the New: Socrates and Levinas on Desire and Need" recently appeared in Levinas and the Ancients (Indiana University Press).

Courses Taught:

Phil 211--Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

Phil 314--Survey of 20th Century Continental European Philosophy

Phil 409/609--Recent French Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas; Jacques Derrida

Phil 410/610--Plato

Phil 411/611--Aristotle

Phil 476/676--The Self: Philosophic and Psychoanalytic Explorations

Phil 477/677--Sigmund Freud: Philosophic and Cultural Approaches

Also teaches Core Humanities courses

Greek Lyric Poetry

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PHACT -- Philosophy and Critical Theory Group

Links to Readings and Information

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