Eric Sanday
- Ancient Philosophy
- Ethics
- Politics
- Metaphysics
- Continental Philosophy
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2003 (Philosophy)
M.A. Fordham University, 1996 (Philosophy)
B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1991 (Physics)
Eric Sanday specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy with a special focus on the relationship between ethics and ontology. His book, A Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides, is available from Northwestern University Press (2015). His recent and forthcoming articles focus on the nature of pleasure in Plato's Philebus, paradigm in Plato’s Statesman, and the existential weight of the philosophical path in Plato's Symposium. He is the co-editor with Greg Recco of a volume on Plato's Laws (Indiana University Press) and with Sean Kirkland of a collection of essays on ancient philosophy (Northwestern). His next book project will focus on the account of truth and life in Plato's Timaeus.
Note to potential graduate students:
"I am currently conducting ongoing correspondences and conversations with others about Plato's account perception and the common sensibles (ta koina) in the Theaetetus, the account of virtue in the Republic, the methodology behind the hypotheses in the Parmenides, the nature of bifurcatory and non-bifurcatory division in the Sophist and Statesman, and other related fascinating topics that others have been sufficiently patient and wonder-bound to discuss with me. I hope to give students an opportunity to strengthen their skills of reading and writing philosophically (i.e. with honesty, creativity, and precision) through careful analysis of some of the most difficult texts in Plato, and I hope to provide a basis for understanding the history of philosophy for oneself. I am particularly interested in working out in detail the Platonic conception of dialectic and the transformative process by which, in Plato's view, the philosopher develops into maturity."
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