Mark Anderson
Education:
2003-2004. Ohio State University: Greek
Studies.
2000. Vanderbilt University: M. A.,
Classical Studies.
Thesis: “Socrates as Hoplite: Ancient Warfare and Socratic Ethics.”
1998. Vanderbilt University: Ph.D.,
Philosophy.
Dissertation: “Recovering a Lost Tradition: H. L. Mencken’s Nietzsche.”
1994. University of Calgary: M. A.,
Philosophy.
1992. Belmont University: B. A.,
Philosophy.
Areas of Specialization:
Ancient Philosophy
Nietzsche
Greek language, history, literature, mythology, and art.
Recent areas of research and publication:
Modernity and Metaphysics:
Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One (Sophia Perennis 2009).
Plato’s early and middle dialogues:
Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues (co-authored with Dr. Ginger Osborn).
Response phrases in the Platonic dialogues:
“Alêthê Legeis: Speaking the Truth in Plato’s Republic” (forthcoming, Ancient Philosophy, fall 2010).
“Dialectic of Assent”
(a minor contribution to the study of Republic
I).
Socratic argumentation:
“Argument Norms in Republic I” (co-authored with Dr. Scott F. Aiken, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, fall 2006).
Socrates’ military career:
“Socrates as Hoplite” (Ancient Philosophy, fall 2005).
Current areas of interest:
The epistemological assumptions of modernity and their impact on (our belief in the possibility of) metaphysics.
Critiques of modernity based upon ancient conceptions of metaphysics and knowledge.
Metaphysics and purification.
Ancient Skepticism.
Kai ta loipa:
Faculty sponsor of philosophy discussion group, The Philologoi.
Web Links:
Approaching Plato (web page under construction)