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Verity Harte

Verity Harte

Professor of Philosophy and Classics
Ct. Hall 402 (mail C 108)
203.432.1697
verity.harte@yale.edu

Areas of Interests

Ancient Philosophy and Metaphysics

Education

Ph.D. 1994, St. Edmund’s and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge

Current or Recent Courses Taught

  • Fall 2006 Directed Studies
  • Fall 2006 Aristotle Categories
  • Spring 2007 Plato Republic X
  • Spring 2007 Plato’s Philosophical Psychology
  • Fall 2007 Directed Studies
  • Fall 2008 Aristotle’s Psychology (with Susanne Bobzien)

Selected Publications

  • Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford: Clarendon 2002. Paperback edition, Oxford: Clarendon February 2005.
  • ‘The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies: Something from Nothing?’, forthcoming in volume of papers from conference “Plato’s Timaeus: Life, the Universe, Everything–and More: New Work on Plato”, title as yet unknown, ed. Richard Mohr & Kirk Sanders, Parmenides Publishing.
  • ‘Reply to Matt Evans’ “Plato's Anti–Hedonism”’, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
  • ‘Platonic Metaphysics’, forthcoming in Oxford Handbook to Plato ed. Gail Fine Oxford: OUP
  • ‘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. 111–128.
  • ‘Plato’s Problem of Composition’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, volume 17, 2002, pp. 1–17.
  • ‘Conflicting Values in Plato’s Crito’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81, 1999, pp. 117–147. Reprinted in R. Kamtekar ed Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology and Crito: Critical Essays, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2004, pp. 229–59.
  • ‘Quel prix pour la vérité? (Philèbe 64a7–66d3)’, La fêlure du plaisir: études sur le philèbe de platon 1. commentaires sous la direction de Monique Dixsaut, Paris: Vrin, 1999, pp. 385–401
  • Co–authored with Melissa Lane, ‘Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism: Catching Sextus Out?’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 2, 1999, pp. 157–172.
  • ‘Aristotle Metaphysics H6: a dialectic with Platonism’, Phronesis XLI, 3, 1996, pp. 276–304.

Works in Progress

  • Research on Plato’s Philebus with a view to writing a monograph on this dialogue for Cambridge Series, Studies in the Dialogues of Plato, ed. M.M. McCabe

Papers in Progress

  • The Life of Protarchus’ Choosing: Philebus 20b–22c’
  • ‘Republic X and the role of the audience in art’
  • ‘What’s a particular and what makes it so? Some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle.’