I am a philosopher and writer working on ancient philosophy, political thought, and the ideas that connect them to contemporary life. My academic work focuses on Plato and the Cynics — on philosophy understood not as a set of doctrines but as a practice, a way of inhabiting the world.
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Before philosophy, fourteen years as a cabinetmaker and furniture maker in Brooklyn. That work continues at brooklyncraftsman.com.
Academic research
Ridicule, Chatter, and Laborious Play: The Ethical Use of Comedy in Plato's Parmenides
Forthcoming in Plato's Use of Humor, ed. Capra, Destrée & Zucker
Forthcoming
Cynicism as Immanent Critique: Diogenes and the Philosophy of Transvaluation
Polis, Vol. 39, Issue 1, pp. 123–148
DOI ↗2022
Thought Experiments: Διάνοια as Propaedeutic Reasoning in Plato's Parmenides
Philodorema: Essays in Honor of Phillip Mitsis, Parnassos Press, pp. 85–98
DOI ↗2022
The Knowable Many: Cosmos as Discursive Order in Hypothesis 3
Études Platoniciennes 15
2019
Hypotheses on Both Sides: Comments on Horan
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 33–40
2019
The Ambiguity of the 'One' in Plato's Parmenides
Methexis, Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 36–59
2018
Teaching
I have taught at NYU, the University of Pennsylvania, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the New School, across ancient philosophy, the history of ideas, and political thought.
Ancient Philosophy
Plato, Aristotle, pre-Socratics, Hellenistic thought
History of Philosophy
Medieval and Renaissance thought; reception and transmission
Social & Political Thought
From the polis to modernity; Arendt, Marx, and Plato
Aesthetics & Continental Philosophy
Art, politics, and critique; 20th-century Continental thought
Contact
Available for writing and consulting work. I welcome correspondence about philosophy, ideas, and projects at the intersection of academic and public life.
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