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Susan Sauvé Meyer

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Professor and Chair of Philosophy
Ph.D. Cornell University
Contact Information
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(215) 898-8563
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Office Location: 
Claudia Cohen Hall 463
Office Hours: 
Spring 2011: TBA
Research Interests: 
  • Greek and Roman Philosophy
  • History of Moral Philosophy

I work on Greek and Roman philosophy, with focus on the natural philosophy of the period (especially Aristotle's and the Stoics'), as well as on the ancient ethical tradition. My recent Ancient Ethics (Routledge 2008) is a systematic treatment of Plato’s, Aristotle’s, Epicurean, and Stoic ethics designed to serve the interests both of students of ancient philosophy and of specialists in contemporary ethics who seek to understand the differences between Ancient and modern ethical philosophy. My current research centers on ancient theories of the emotions and on a translation and commentary on Plato's Laws.

Selected Publications: 

“Aristotle, Teleology, and Reduction.” The Philosophical Review 101, (1992), 791-825

Aristotle on Moral Responsibility, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993; to be reissued by Oxford University Press, 2011.

"Plato on the Law", A Companion to Plato, edited by Hugh Benson.  Blackwell, 2006, 373-87.

Ancient Ethics, Routledge, 2008

"Chain of Causes: What is Stoic Fate?" in God and Cosmos in Stoicism, edited by Ricardo Salles,  Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 71-90.

"Legislation as a Tragedy: On Plato, Laws VII, 817b-d," in Plato and the Poets, edited by F. G. Hermann and P. Destrée.  Mneumosune Supplement 328.  Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2011, pp. 387-402.

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Curriculum Vitæ: 
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