Sandra L Peterson

Contact Me

peter009@umn.edu

Affiliations

• Philosophy

Links

• personal homepage

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

• ancient philosophy
• Aristotle's ethics
• moral philosophy
• philosophy of language
• Plato's metaphysics

Courses Taught

• Phil 4010W - Selected Ancient Philosopher
• Phil 1910W - Topics: Freshman Seminar: Socrates, Moral Phil & Ironist
• Phil 8081 - Seminar: History of Philosophy--Ancient Philosophers
• Phil 4085W - Wittgenstein
• Phil 3001W - History of Philosophy: Ancient
• Phil 1003W - Introduction to Ethics

Research & Professional Activities

Outreach

• Classroom weekly volunteer: an inner city middle school, September 1993 - May 2003

Publications

• Remarks on Three Formulations of Ethical Relativism: Peterson, Sandra, Ethics, 95 , 1985.
• Plato's Parmenides: A Principle of Interpretation and Seven Arguments: Peterson, Sandra, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 34 , 1996. Download
• Apparent Circularity in Aristotle's Account of Right Action in the Nicomachean Ethics: Peterson, Sandra, Apeiron, 25 , 1992. Download
• A Reasonable Self-Predication Premise for the Third Man Argument: Peterson, Sandra, Philosophical Review, 82 , 1973.
• Zeno's Second Argument Against Plurality: Peterson, Sandra, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 16 , 1978. Download
• Socrates Talks to Himself in Plato's Hippias Major: Peterson, Sandra, Ancient Philosophy, 20 , 2000. Download
• The Language Game in Plato's Parmenides: Peterson, Sandra, Ancient Philosophy, 20 , 2000.
• New Rounds of the Exercise of Plato's Parmenides: Peterson, Sandra, Modern Schoolman, 80 , 2003. Download
• An Authentially Socratic Conclusion in Plato's Phaedo: Socrates' Debt to Asclepius: Peterson, Sandra, Desire, Identity, and Existence, 2003. Download
• "The Parmenides": Peterson, Sandra, Oxford University Press, The Oxford Handbook of Plato, ed. Gail Fine, 2008.
• Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato. Peterson, Sandra, Cambridge University Press, Author, 2011. Link

Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1983