Jason started following the work of Aaron Patzer.
Jason started following the work of Libby Barringer, University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science.
Jason started following the work of Flora Lee, Cornell University, Philosophy.
Jason Revising two papers that I had up. Plato's Theology; Stoic Ontology/Cosmology.
Visiting Scholar/ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Visiting Assistant Professor
Thesis Title: The Intelligible Creator God and the Intelligent Soul of the Cosmos in Plato's Metaphysics and Theology
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Susan Suavé Meyer |
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My two main areas of research are:
* Ancient Greek Philosophy
(with lots of spill-over into classics and the history of science)
[Currently writing about Plato's late metaphysics/cosmology/theology; other significant past or ongoing projects have been on Aristotle's view of science/knowledge and its relationship to 'first philosophy' (especially Metaphysics IV); the Stoic Archai; Greek Philosophical Theology; Cradle Arguments]
*Issues at at the intersection of the history and philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Under that heading, I'm particularly keen on:
- how and why things should be grouped together (issues of concepts/universals/natural kinds/species/natures)
- what influence philosophy (especially metaphysics and epistemology) has and has had on other intellectual and social domains
- the internal logic of philosophical systems (i.e. typologies of world-views; how commitments to certain methods and theses in one area of philosophy often lead to or even constitute positions in other areas)
- What motivates the development of 'transcendental' philosophies, both Platonist and Kantian/Idealist? I work on Plato and dabble in Kant, but I'm an Aristotelian through and through. I want to know how it is that historical geniuses, e.g. Plato and Kant, end up saying that the world we see isn't fully real - a view which is, prima facie, loony.
[Have a forthcoming article on species concepts and natural kinds; starting to work on how issues of kinds/species demarcation might bare on questions of 'human nature'.
I dabble in early modern philosophy, primarily on Locke and Kant.
I am also interested in Objectivism.
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[My main hobby is writing (formal) poetry, and so I pursue a personal/non-professional interest in historical poetry, especially ancient Greek, 18th-19th c. German and English (Romantics and Victorians), and epics].
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