Steve Strange
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Emory University

Mailing address:
Steven K. Strange
Department of Philosophy
214 Bowden Hall, 560 South Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta GA 30322-2410 USA

Contact information:
phone/voicemail: 404-727-0460
fax: 404-712-9425
Office: 320 Bowden Hall
Office hours for Spring 2009: 10-11 Fridays and by appointment (email me: see below for link)

My specialties are the history of ancient philosophy, especially Platonism and the Hellenistic schools, the later history of Platonism, and the history of ethics. I regularly teach graduate courses on Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, and Neoplatonism. I also have strong interests in the history of philosophy more generally, especially medieval and Renaissance philosophy and 17th- and 18th-century philosophy.

I am serving as the Director of Graduate Studies for Emory's philosophy graduate program. For more information about Emory's philosophy program, please visit the Emory Philosophy Department homepage at:

http://www.philosophy.emory.edu/

Teaching

In Fall 2009 I am teaching Philosophy 251, History of Western Philosophy II and a Freshman Seminar on ethics. For course atlas info and textbooks, click here.

In Spring 2009 I taught Philosophy 512, a graduate seminar on Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy.

In Fall 2008 I taught Philosophy 251, History of Western Philosophy II (16th-19th century philosophy) and Ancient Mediterranean Studies 202S, Socrates on Trial (co-taught with Bracht Branham). In Spring 2009 I will be teaching a graduate seminar on Hellenistic Philosophy. (See Spring 2005 for a description and syllabus for the previous version of this course.)

I was on teaching leave for the whole of the 2007-2008 academic year.

In Spring 2007 I taught Philosophy 251, History of Western Philosophy II.

In Fall 2006, I taught an upper-level seminar (Philosophy 367WR) on Hellenistic philosophy, co-taught with Bracht Branham Ancient Mediterranean Studies 202S, Socrates on Trial, and taught a graduate seminar on Plotinus (Philosophy 789).

In the second Summer term of 2006, I taught Philosophy 115, Introduction to Ethics.

In Spring 2006, I taught Philosophy 250, History of Western Philosophy I, covering ancient and medieval philosophy, and a graduate seminar (Philosophy 789) on Aristotle and the commentary tradition.

In Fall 2005, I taught an upper-level undergraduate seminar on Plato and Platonism (Philosophy 367WR), and a freshman seminar on Socrates (Philosophy 190).

In Spring 2005, I taught a graduate seminar on Hellenistic Philosophy (Philosophy 789) and Philosophy 250, History of Western Philosophy I.

Research
My current work is on the philosophy of Plotinus and Neoplatonism, on the history and background of Neoplatonism, and on Stoic ethics and moral psychology.

My colleague Kevin Corrigan and I led a seminar at Emory under the aegis of Emory's Philosophy Deparment's new Institute for the History of Philosophy June 9th-17th, 2008. Participants included John Dillon, Gerald Bechtle, Volker Drecoll, Michael Harrington, Deepa Majumdar, Sarah Pessin, Svelta Slaveva-Griffin, and John Turner. The schedule for the seminar is here.

My colleagues Jack Zupko, Niall Slater, and myself organized a workshop on Stoicism and the Self at Emory on September 28th and 29th, 2007. Other participants included Sylvia Berryman, Marcia Colish, Henry Dyson, Mary Beth Ingham, Judith Miller, Margaret Osler, Nancy Sherman, and Christopher Star. The schedule for the workshop is here.

I organized the 29th Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop at Emory on April 21-22, 2006.

The volume Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations, papers from the second biennial Leroy Loemker Conference held March 31-April 2, 2000 at Emory, and edited by my colleague Jack Zupko and myself, was published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press. It contains contributions by Lawrence Becker, Firmin DeBrabander, Sten Ebbesen, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Brad Inwood, Jacqueline Lagrée, A. A. Long, Calvin Normore, Martha Nussbaum, Donald Rutherford, Richard Sorabji, and myself.

For more information, here is a link to my shorter curriculum vitae.