Congratulations to our colleague Brad Inwood who just published (together with Raphael Woolf) a new translation of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics!
Here’s an excerpt from the cover: “Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete translation of the work has been available. But the Eudemian Ethics is a masterpiece in its own right, offering valuable insights into Aristotle’s ideas on virtue, happiness and the good life. This volume offers a translation by Brad Inwood and Raphael Woolf that is both fluent and exact, and an introduction in which they help the reader to gain a deeper understanding both of the Eudemian Ethics and of its relation to the Nicomachean Ethics and to Aristotle’s ethical thought as a whole.”
For more information check the publisher’s website.
The latest issue of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) has just appeared in print! Contributors to vol. 41 comprise Devin Henry, Carl A. Huffman, Mark A. Johnstone, Alan Kim, Dominic Scott, Matthew S. Strohl, Naly Thaler, Franco V. Trivigno, and Michael V. Wedin. OSAP is edited by Brad Inwood.
A new book of CPAMP Alumnus Tom Angier is about to come out in November – already his third book! Congratulations. Ethics: The Key Thinkers “surveys the history of Western moral philosophy, guiding students through the work and ideas of the field’s most important figures, from Plato to MacIntyre.” The book contains 11 chapters written by various experts and it “explores the contribution of each thinker in turn, narrating how they have changed the shape of ethical theory as a whole. The book also includes guides to the latest reading on each thinker. An ideal resource for
all students of ethics.”
For more information see here.
To quote from the cover: “Thirteen new essays investigate the continuities between medieval and early modern thinking about the emotions, and open up a contemporary debate on the relationship between emotions, cognition, and reason, and the way emotions figure in our own cognitive lives. A team of leading philosophers of the medieval, renaissance, and early modern periods explore these ideas from the point of view of four key themes: the situation of emotions within the human mind; the intentionality of emotions and their role in cognition; emotions and action; the role of emotion in self-understanding and the social situation of individuals.”
The volume contains chapters by three CPAMP members: Peter King, Ian Drummond, and Martin Pickavé – and also a paper by this year’s CPAMP faculty visitor Dominik Perler! For more information see here.
CPAMP is very well presented at the upcoming International Plato Society Regional Meeting at the University of Michigan (4-7 October 2012). Lloyd Gerson, Robert Howton, Bryan Reece, Matthew Siebert, and Jacob Stump will all present papers, as will CPAMP alumni Emily Fletcher and Nicholas Riegel! See here for a detailed program and more information about the event.
The Collaborative Program is very happy to welcome to faculty visitors this term: Prof. George Boys-Stones (Durham University) and Prof. Dominik Perler (Humboldt University, Berlin). A warm welcome to both of them.
Prof. Boys-Stones is here for the whole Fall term. He will also co-teach a graduate seminar with Brad Inwood; Prof. Perler will be with us for six weeks until the middle of October. Both will give talks at the beginning of their stay and I hope everyone will all take up the occasion to meet them while they are here.
Plato and the Divided Self, a book that Rachel Barney co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain, just came out. The volume, which also contains a chapter by Jennifer Whiting, originated from an exciting conference that took place at the University of Toronto in 2005.
The book is a must-read for everyone interested in Plato’s moral psychology and in the influence Plato’s account of the tripartite soul had on later authors such as Galen, Plutarch, and Plotinus. For more information about the volume check the publisher’s website.
Fresh from the press: a new issue of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) has just appeared in print! Contributors to vol. 42 comprise Matt Evans, James Doyle, Suzanne Obdrzalek, Karel Thein, Timothy Clarke, Jacob Rosen and Marko Malink, Zena Hitz, Sean McConnell, and Jaap Mansfeld. OSAP is edited by Brad Inwood.
CPAMP is well represented at the First Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 3-5 May 2012. Rachel Barney, Lloyd Gerson, and Brad Inwood present papers at the meeting, and CPAMP student Willie Costello has a poster presentation. For more information go to the colloquium website.
Peter Hartman, who in October successfully defended his dissertation on “Durand of St.-Pourçain on Cognitive Acts: Their Cause, Ontological Status, and Intentional Character”, has accepted a tenure-track position in the Philosophy Department of Loyola University Chicago. He will start at Loyola in the Fall 2013 after spending next year as a postdoc at the Université du Québec à Montréal (with Claude Panaccio). Congratulations Peter!
Congratulations to our colleague Brad Inwood who just published (together with Raphael Woolf) a new translation of Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics!
A new book of CPAMP Alumnus Tom Angier is about to come out in November – already his third book! Congratulations.
To quote from the cover: “Thirteen new essays investigate the continuities between medieval and early modern thinking about the emotions, and open up a contemporary debate on the relationship between emotions, cognition, and reason, and the way emotions figure in our own cognitive lives. A team of leading philosophers of the medieval, renaissance, and early modern periods explore these ideas from the point of view of four key themes: the situation of emotions within the human mind; the intentionality of emotions and their role in cognition; emotions and action; the role of emotion in self-understanding and the social situation of individuals.”
Plato and the Divided Self, a book that Rachel Barney co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain, just came out. The volume, which also contains a chapter by Jennifer Whiting, originated from an exciting conference that took place at the University of Toronto in 2005.