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Sandra Peterson

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Specialties

  • ancient philosophy
  • Aristotle's ethics
  • moral philosophy
  • philosophy of language
  • Plato's metaphysics
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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.
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  • Classroom weekly volunteer: an inner city middle school. September 1993 - May 2003
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Awards

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