Rachel Barney
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Born | 14 September 1966 |
Education | Princeton University (PhD) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
Thesis | A Reading of Plato's Cratylus (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | John Madison Cooper |
Main interests | ancient philosophy |
Website | http://individual.utoronto.ca/rbarney/Home.html |
Rachel Barney (born 14 September 1966) is a Canadian philosopher and Professor and Acting Associate Chair at the department of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is known for her works on ancient philosophy.[1][2][3]
Education
[edit]Barney got her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD at Princeton.[4] She returned back to the University of Toronto after teaching at the University of Chicago, the University of Ottawa, and Harvard.[4]Barney did research that ranged from the early sophists to the late Neoplatonic commentator Simplicius; nevertheless, most of her research focused on Plato. The areas of research she was most interested in were ethics, psychology, philosophical methods, and epistemology.[4]
Publications
[edit]- Names and Nature in Plato’s Cratylus, Routledge, 2001
- Plato and the Divided Self, co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Francis Brittain, Cambridge University Press, 2012
- “History and Dialectic (Metaphysics A 3, 983a24-4b8)”, in Carlos Steel ed., Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha (Symposium Aristotelicum XVIII) (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- “Notes on the Kalon and the Good in Plato,” Classical Philology (Special Issue: Beauty, Harmony and the Good, October 2010)
- ”Plato on Desire for the Good”, S. Tenenbaum, ed., Desire, Good, and Practical Reason. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
- “Ring-Composition in Plato: the Case of Republic X,” in M. McPherran, ed., Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- “Gorgias’ Defence: Plato and his Opponents on Rhetoric and the Good,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 48.1 (2010): 95-121
- “Simplicius: Commentary, Harmony, and Authority,” Antiquorum Philosophia 3 (2009): 101-20
- “Aristotle’s Argument for a Human Function,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 (2008): 293-322
- “Eros and Necessity in the Ascent from the Cave,” Ancient Philosophy 28:2 (2008): 357-72
- “The Carpenter and the Good”, in D. Cairns, F. G. Herrmann, and T. Penner (eds.) Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato’s Republic (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008).
References
[edit]- ^ Kraut, Richard (4 July 2006). "Review of The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ^ Hyman, Malcolm. "Review of: Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ Lautner, Peter. "Review of: Plato and the Divided Self". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ a b c "Rachel Barney". Department of Philosophy. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
External links
[edit]- "Rachel Barney". Department of Philosophy.