Sandra Peterson

Specialties

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

Publications

• Plato's Parmenides: A Principle of Interpretation and Seven Arguments: Peterson, Sandra, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 34, 1996.
• Apparent Circularity in Aristotle's Account of Right Action in the Nicomachean Ethics: Peterson, Sandra, Apeiron, 25, 1992.
• Zeno's Second Argument Against Plurality: Peterson, Sandra, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 16, 1978.
• Socrates Talks to Himself in Plato's Hippias Major: Peterson, Sandra, Ancient Philosophy, 20, 2000.
• New Rounds of the Exercise of Plato's Parmenides: Peterson, Sandra, Modern Schoolman, 80, 2003.
• An Authentially Socratic Conclusion in Plato's Phaedo: Socrates' Debt to Asclepius: Peterson, Sandra, Desire, Identity, and Existence, 2003.
• "The Parmenides": Oxford University Press, Peterson, Sandra, The Oxford Handbook of Plato, ed. Gail Fine, 2008.
• Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato. Cambridge University Press, Peterson, Sandra, 2011.

Activities

Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1983 - none

Courses

• 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