Paul M. Carelli

Associate Professor

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Biography

My research specialty is in the history of philosophy, with a strong concentration in ancient Greek philosophy and a significant and growing concentration in the philosophies of ancient China and India. My main research focus is on the moral psychology found in Plato’s dialogues. This is a dynamic field of study at the forefront of current research in ancient philosophy. Research on Plato is in a state of flux. As recently as twenty five years ago, scholars routinely took for granted a division between early dialogues portraying the historical Socrates, and middle and late dialogues in which the character Socrates is a mouthpiece for Plato’s own mature views. Research of the past quarter century has undermined that division and introduced controversy between those holding to this developmental thesis about Plato’s writings (that there is substantial change in positions between early and later dialogues ) and those with a unitarian thesis (that there are no major changes of position throughout the dialogues). Even the ablest defenders of the unitarian thesis, however, have admitted a distinction in the dialogues’ moral psychology. My work challenges this dogma of the supposed change in Plato’s moral psychology through careful reconsideration of certain arguments in the dialogues and by attending to the dramatic settings and characterizations that form the context of those arguments.

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Cuantificación de educación / académica

Philosophy, PhD, University of Kentucky

… → 2008

Classical Studies, MA, University of Kentucky

… → 2001

English, BA, University of Arizona

… → 1993

Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, BA

… → 1991