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Ronna C. Burger, Ph.D.


Burger

Ph.D. New School for Social Research, 1975

Faculty Position

Professor


Email: rburger@tulane.edu

Office: 105F Newcomb Hall

Phone: (504) 862-3381

Office Hours: Thursday 3-4 pm


Academic Interests:

  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Philosophy of Religion

Books:

  • Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics (University of Chicago Press, Spring 2008)
  • The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth (Yale, 1984. Reprinted - St. Augustine's Press 1999)
  • Plato's Phaedrus.(Alabama, 1980)

Books edited:

  • The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete (Chicago, 2000)
  • Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete . (Chicago, 2002)

Selected Articles:

  • "The Erotic and the Thumotic Soul," Interpretation, Winter 2004-05.
  • "Aristotle on Mimesis: The Visual Image and the Plot of Tragedy," Key Writers on the Arts,December 2002.
  • "Making New Gods: on Plato's Euthyphro," in Plato and Platonism , edited by Jan M. Van Ophuijsen, (The Catholic University of America Press, 2000).
  • "Male and Female Created He Them: Some Platonic Reflections on Genesis 1-3," in The Nature of Woman and the Art of Politics, edited by Eduardo Velasquez, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
  • "Ethical Reflection and Righteous Indignation," in Essays in Ancient Greek PhilosophyIV, J.P. Anton ed. (SUNY-Albany, 1991).
  • "Is Each Thing the Same as its Essence: On Metaphysics Z:6-11," The Review of Metaphysics 41 (1987) 53-76.
  • "Socratic Eironeia," Interpretation13 (1985), 143-49.

Recent Paper Presented

“Self-Restraint and Virtue: Sages and Philosophers in Maimonides’ Eight Chapters,” American Philosophical Association, December 2006.





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