Areas of Interest

Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient Greek Religion, Philosophy of Religion, History of Ethics

Current Research Projects

• "Socrates and Plato" (invited book chapter) for the History of Western Philosophy of Religion, edited by G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2007).

• Socrates and Plato on Piety: A Study of the Euthyphro (book manuscript).

• Socrates, book manuscript under contract with Acumen/University of California Press.

• "Love and Medicine in Plato's Symposium and Philebus" (under submission).

• "The Religious Dimension of Socratic and Platonic Moral Theory," invited book chapter for Foundations of Ancient Ethics/Grundlagen der Antiken Ethik edited by George Rudebusch and Jorg Hardy (Vandenhoek, forthcoming).

• Socrates (with N.D. Smith), book manuscript under contract with Polity Press, UK.

• The Cambridge Critical Guide to the Republic (forthcoming, 2010).

Publications

Books

• The Religion of Socrates (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press; 1996 [pbk. 1999]

Edited Collections

• Recognition, Remembrance, and Reality: New Essays on Plato's Epistemology and Metaphysics. Apeiron Supplemental Volume 32.4 (1999)

• Wisdom, Ignorance, and Virtue: New Essays in Socratic Studies. Apeiron Supplemental Volume 30.4 (1997).

Recent Articles

• Hypertext Books (WWW + CD-ROM): Plato's Sophist (with George Rudebusch [NAU] for Project Archelogos, University of Edinburgh; forthcoming, 2009.

• 2008 "Socrates and Plato" (invited book chapter) for the History of Western Philosophy of Religion, edited by G. Oppy and N. Trakakis (Chesham, UK: Acumen, forthcoming).

• 2008 "Virtue, Luck, and Choice at the End of the Republic," Philosophical Inquiry (forthcoming).

• 2008 "Santas, Socrates, and Induction," Philosophical Inquiry (forthcoming).

• 2006 "Medicine, Magic, and Religion in Plato's Symposium," chapter for Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception (Harvard, 2006). Edited by J. Lesher, D. Hails, and F. Sheffield.

• 2006 "Socratic Epagoge and Socratic Induction," Journal of the History of Philosophy.

• 2006 "Socratic Religion," chapter for The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Edited by Donald Morrison.

• 2006 "Socratic Piety and the Life of Philosophy," (in French) chapter for Socrates' Ethics (Librairie philosophique J. Vrin: Paris). Edited by Pierre Destree and Louis-Andre Dorion.

• 2006 "Platonic Religion," chapter for The Blackwell Companion to Plato. Edited by Hugh Benson.

• 2006 "The Piety and Gods of Plato's Republic," in G. Santas (ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic (Blackwell, 2006): ch. 5 (84-103).

Service to the Profession

2007-10: Member, Program Committee, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

2005-08: Member, the Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy, American Philosophical Association.

2000-present: Editorial Board Member of Apeiron (appointed 2/2000).

1996-present: Founder, Organizer, and Director: The Annual Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, University of Arizona.