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Department of Philosophy - Faculty

Naomi Reshotko

Professor

Department Chair

Sturm Hall 261                                

303-871-2765   

nreshotk@du.edu

Education

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Areas

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology

Courses Taught

Greek Philosophy
Nature and Limits of Human Knowledge
Early Modern Philosophy
Philosophy of Biology

Great Thinkers: Plato
Great Thinkers: Aristotle
Theory of Knowledge
Socratic Ethics 

Selected Publications

Books

Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-Bad, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Editor, Desire, Identity, and Existence (Edmonton: Academic Printing and Publishing) 2003

Articles

"Virtue as the Only Unconditional - But not the Only Intrinsic - Good" Ancient Philosophy 21, 1-10, January, 2001

"The Good, the Bad, and the Neither Good nor Bad in Plato's Lysis," The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXXVIII/2, 251-262, June, 2000.

"Plato's Lysis: A Socratic Treatise on Desire and Attraction" Apeiron XXX/1, 1-18, March 1997.

"A Bastard Form of Reasoning: The Argument From the Sciences and the Introduction of the Receptacle in Plato's Timaeus" History of Philosophy
Quarterly XIV/1, 121-135, January 1997.

"Do Explanatory Desire Attributions Generate Opaque Contexts?" Ratio IX/2, 153-170, September 1996.

"A Reply to Penner and Rowe" Phronesis Vol. XL/3, 336-341, November, 1995.

"Heracleitean Flux in Plato's Theaetetus," History of Philosophy Quarterly 11/2, 139-161, April 1994.

"The Socratic Theory of Motivation," Apeiron XXV/3 145-170, September 1992.

Book Reviews:

Mark L. McPherran, ed., Wisdom, Ignorance and Virtue: New Essays in Socratic Studies in
Ancient Philosophy, Vol 19 (1999), pp. 407-411.

Francisco Gonzalez, ed. The Third Way: New Directions in Plato Scholarship in
Ancient Philosophy, Vol. 17 (1997), pp. 442-7.

Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, The Foundations of Socratic Ethics and Gregory Vlastos
(Ed. Myles Burnyeat), Socratic Studies in Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue
Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie XVI/1, February 1996, pp. 21-24.

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