Verity Harte
Professor of Philosophy and Classics
She held research fellowships at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, and was Lecturer, then Reader, in Philosophy at King’s College London, prior to joining the Faculty at Yale in 2006. She is Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London and the Managing Editor of the ancient philosophy journal Phronesis. At Yale, she holds a joint position in Philosophy and Classics (office in Philosophy: Connecticut Hall).
Current Courses
Fall 09:Directed Studies Philosophy (DRST 003 04) & (with Professor Susanne Bobzien) Aristotle: the voluntary, prohairesis & responsibility (EN III.1-5, EE II.6-11) (GREK 412 01/GREK 712 01/PHIL 400 01/PHIL 600 01). Spring 10: on sabbatical leave.
Selected Recent Publications
- Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford: Clarendon 2002. Paperback edition, Oxford: Clarendon 2005.
- "Platonic Metaphysics", The Oxford Handbook to Plato, ed. Gail Fine,
Oxford: OUP 2008, pp. 191-216. - "Language in the Cave", Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, ed. Dominic Scott, Oxford 2007, pp. 195-215.
- "Beware of Imitations: Image Recognition in Plato", New Essays on Plato,
ed. Fritz-Gregor Hermann, Swansea: the Classical Press of Wales 2006, pp. 21-42. - "The Philebus on Pleasure: the good, the bad and the false", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society II, 2003-4, pp. 111-28.
- "Conflicting Values in Plato’s Crito", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81, 1999,
pp. 117-47. Reprinted in R. Kamtekar ed. Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology and Crito:
Critical Essays, Rowman and Littlefield 2004, pp. 229-59.23
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