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Cornell Classics Faculty: Gail

CORNELL CLASSICS FACULTY AND STAFF

Gail Fine
Professor of Philosophy and Classics

219 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
(607) 255-6827
FAX: (607) 255-8177
e-mail: gjf1@cornell.edu
Fall 2006 Course

PHIL 309 Plato, TR, 1:25-2:40, 104 RF

On Leave Spring 2007

Education:

B.A. University of Michigan 1971
M.A. Harvard University 1973
PhD. Harvard University 1975

Employment:

Assistant Professor, Cornell University 1975-81
Associate Professor, Cornell University, 1981-87
Full Professor, Cornell University, 1987 ---

Recent Courses Taught:

Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz)
Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Skepticism
Ancient Epistemology
Substance
Aristotleís Criticisms of Plato
Ancient Metaphysics

Selected Publications:

Books:

On Ideas: Aristotleís Criticism of Platoís Theory of Forms (Oxford University Press, 1993)

Plato I: Metaphysics and Epistemology; Plato II: Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul (edited for Oxford University Press, 2000)

Articles:

ëDescartes and Ancient Skepticism: Reheated Cabbage?", Philosophical Review (2000)

ëSceptical Dogmataí, Methexis (2000)

ëPlatoís Refutation of Protagoras in the Theaetetusí, Apeiron (1998)

ëConflicting Appearancesí, in Form and Argument in Late Plato, eds. C. Gill and M. McCabe (Oxford, 1996)

ëProtagorean Relativismsí, in Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 10 (1994)

ëInquiry in the Menoí, in Cambridge Companion to Plato, ed. R. Kraut (1992)

ëKnowledge and Belief in Republic V-VIIí in Companions to Ancient Thought, ed. S. Everson (1990)

ëSeparationí, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1984)

ëKnowledge and Logos in Platoís Theaetetusí, Philosophical Review (1979)

Current Projects:

I am currently working primarily on ancient skepticism, especially Sextus and the Cyrenaics. I am also working on various topics in Platoís epistemology.

Recent Invited Lectures:

I have recently read papers at a conference in Delphi, Greece, sponsored by the European Cultural Centre at Delphi; in fall 2001, I will be reading papers at Dartmouth College and at a conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have also recently read papers in Corpus Christi, Oxford; at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand; at Toronto University; MIT; and at the Keeling Conference in London. Selected titles: ëSextus and External World Skepticismí; ëSubjectivity, Ancient and Modern: Sextus, the Cyrenaics, and Descartesí; ëReheated Cabbage: Descartes and Ancient Skepticismí.

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