Moral Motivation
A History
Edited by Iakovos Vasiliou
Author Information
Edited by Iakovos Vasiliou, Professor of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Iakovos Vasiliou is currently Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published a number of articles on Plato and Aristotle, and is the author of Aiming at Virtue in Plato (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He has also taught at Brooklyn College, Georgia State University, and Johns Hopkins University.
Contributors:
Joy Connolly, Professor of Classics and Dean for Humanities at New York University, is the author of The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome (2007), The Life of Roman Republicanism (2014), and essays about Roman literature and culture. Current interests include melodrama, exemplarity, and ancient literary theory.
Anne Diebel received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she now teaches in the Core Curriculum as the Robert Belknap Faculty Fellow. She has published articles on Henry James and Theodore Dreiser and is working on a book about American modernism and personality.
Brad Inwood is University Professor Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy. He is the author of Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism (1985), Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome (2005), and Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters (2007), all published by Oxford University Press.
Jonathan Jacobs, PhD University of Pennsylvania (1983), works on moral psychology, metaethics, history of philosophy, and criminal justice. He has published over seventy articles and several books and has held fellowships and been a visiting scholar at universities in the U.S. and U.K. He is Professor and Chair of Philosophy, John Jay College, City University of New York.
Chadwick Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Music at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He specializes in the relationships between music and philosophy, the history of music theory, Schenkerian analysis, and opera studies.
Susan Sauvé Meyer is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism, she is the author of Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (1993, reissued with a new introduction 2011), Ancient Ethics (2008) and the forthcoming Plato: Laws I-II: Translation and Commentary (Clarendon Press).
Phillip Mitsis is Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization at New York University. He has published on Greek epic and tragedy, and on the history of ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy. He is working on a larger study of Locke's use of ancient Epicurean, Stoic, and skeptic arguments, and the way that we conceptualize the origins of particular philosophical notions.
Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999), and The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Princeton, 2011).
Angelica Nuzzo is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Among her recent publications: History, Memory, Justice in Hegel, (Macmillan, 2012), Hegel on Religion and Politics (ed. 2013); Hegel and the Analytic Tradition (ed. 2009), Ideal Embodiment. Kant's Theory of Sensibility (Indiana, 2008).
Steven Sverdlik is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he has taught since 1982. He writes on ethics, moral psychology and punishment, and is the author of Motive and Rightness (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is currently working on issues in the morality of punishment.
Jacqueline Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She has published Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy and Society in Hume's Philosophy with Oxford University Press (2015). Her edited volume, Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals, is also forthcoming from OUP.
Jennifer Uleman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purchase College, SUNY. Her publications include An Introduction to Kant's Moral Philosophy (2010), "External Freedom in Kant's Rechtslehre: Political, Metaphysical" (2004), "On Kant, Infanticide, and Finding Oneself in a State of Nature" (2000), and various writings on art, politics, and feminism.
Iakovos Vasiliou is Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Aiming at Virtue in Plato (Cambridge, 2008) and a number of articles on Plato and Aristotle.
Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of articles and books on style and the body in Greek literature and culture, including Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2008) and Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (Cambridge 2015).
