Colin A. Anderson

Colin Anderson focuses on Ancient Greek Philosophy especially Plato and Aristotle. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his dissertation Before Theory and Practice: The Implications of Knowledge and Desire in Plato's Socratic Dialogues, and a book on Plato's Phaedo, The Impossible Desires of Philosophy: Death, Desire, and Thinking in Plato's Phaedo. His other interests include contemporary continental philosophy. His teaching includes courses in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Environmental Ethics, Animals and Ethics, Logic, Ethics, Epistemology, Existentialism, and Philosophy and Tragedy. In addition to contributing to the Philosophy Department and the General Education Program at Hiram, his courses contribute to the Classical Studies Major, Environmental Studies Program, Biomedical Humanities Program, and the Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies. He also serves as the faculty advisor to the Philosophy Forum.

Education:

Loyola University of Chicago, Philosophy Department, Ph.D. January, 2002.

Dissertation: “Before Theory and Practice: Implication(s) of Desire and Knowledge in Plato’s Dialogues” (Abstract PDF)

Director: Dr. Adriaan Peperzak.

Loyola University of Chicago, Philosophy Department, MA, May 1995.
St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, B.A., 1991.

"Majors": Philosophy, History of Mathematics and Science
Senior Thesis: “The Ontological Status of Essences in Husserl’s Thought.”
"Minors": Classics, Comparative Literature.

Publications:

Review of Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its cultural context, Andrea Wilson Nightingale: Oxford University Press, 2005. Forthcoming in July Bryn Mawr Classical Review (3000 words).

Review of Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's Republic, David Roochnik: Cornell University Press, 2003. Bryn Mawr Classical Review: October, 2004 (2300 words).

Review of Chorology: On Beginning in Plato’s Timaeus, John Sallis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Bryn Mawr Classical Review: June, 2000 (2000 words).

Review of Metaphysics in Ordinary Language, Stanley Rosen: Yale University Press, 1999. Philosophy in Review, June 2000 (3 pp).

Review of Plato’s Phaedo, Translated by Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, and Eric Salem: Focus Publishing, 1998. Bryn Mawr Classical Review March, 1999 (2000 words).

Presentations:

"The Comedy of Philosophy in Plato's Phaedo," American Philological Assocation, 2007 meeting, San Diego.

Comments of Freydberg "" (Ancient Philosophy Society 2006 meeting, DePaul University.

"On a Peculiar Absence of Theory in Plato” (North East Ohio Philosophy Consortium, 2004 Meeting, John Carroll).

Comments on McCoy “Questioning Philosophy and Rhetoric” (Ancient Philosophy Society 2004 meeting Penn State).

The Economic of Ethics: Philosophy in the 'Right Exchange Passage' (Phaedo, 69a-c). Presented paper (15 pp.) at the 2003 annual meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham New York, October 2003.

The Logic(s) of the Eschatological Myth in Plato’s Phaedo.” Presented paper (20 pp.) at the 2001 annual meeting of the Society for History of Ancient Greek Political Thought, Society for American Political Science, 2001 meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 31-September 3, 2001.

Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo.” Presented paper (10 pp.) at "Plato for the New Millennium." Conference at Lewis University, February 24-25 2000.

"Body, Soul and Desire in Plato’s Phaedo,” Presented paper (26 pp.), Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, May 1998.

Courses Taught:

Hiram:

Philosophy 101: Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 118: Introduction to Ethics
Philosophy 219: Contemporary Moral Problems
Philosophy 121: Introduction to Logic
Philosophy 210: History of Ancient Philosophy
Philosophy 211: History of Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy 241: Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy 270: Environmental Philosophy (EVST 270)
Philosophy 271: Animals and Ethics
Philosophy 281: Seminar: Philosophy and Death
Philosophy 381: Existentialism
Philosophy 480: Major Philosophers: Plato
Philosophy 480: Major Philosophers: Socratic Legacies
FRCL: Memory and Identity
FSEM: Philosophy of Love and Friendship
INTD 381: Philosophy and Tragedy
MAIS 5010: What is Knowledge? (6 credit hour course, team-taught with Janet Pope, History Department)

Previously Taught:

Philosophy 120: Philosophy of Human Nature
Philosophy 272: Knowledge and Reality: Metaphysics
Philosophy 274: Knowledge and Reality: Truth
Philosophy 281: Action and Value: Ethics
Philosophy 103: Introduction to Logic
Philosophy 170: Introduction to World Religion
Philosophy 231: Contemporary Moral Problems
Philosophy 321: History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy