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City University of New York Graduate Center
Gerald Alan Press
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
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Research Interests
- History of Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy
- Plato
- Aristotle
- History of Ideas
Currently researching and writing two monographs: A Study of Plato's Charmides and a new monograph project dealing with Plato's Meno, Protagoras, Theaetetus, and Phaedrus.
Courses Recently Taught
- Plato (Spring 2008)
- Writing Philosophy (Fall 2006)
- Plato (Spring 2005, Spring 2003)
- Aristotle's Metaphysics (Spring 2001)
Representative Publications
- Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed (2007)
- Editor, Who Speaks For Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity (1999)
- Editor, Plato's Dialogues: New Studies and Interpretations (1993)
- "The Logic of Attributing Characters' Views to Plato"
- "Plato" in The Columbia History of Western Philosophy
- "The Dialogical Mode in Modern Plato Studies"
- "Plato's Dialogues as Enactments"