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.