Maureen Eckert
Phone: 508-999 8348
Office: Group I: 382
Courses: PHL 101 Introduction to Philosophy, PHL 221 History of Western Philosophy: Ancient, PHL 333 Plato, PHL 334 Aristotle, PHL 236 The Ideal State, PHL 409 (Seminar) "The Real and the Ideal," REL 201: Introduction to Religious Studies
Prof. Eckert is faculty advisor for the Philosophy Association: Meetings Spring '09 4-6:00 PM Liberal Arts Building Room 104
Recent Publications
Just published (May 2009): A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn
October 2006: Theories of Mind: Introductory Readings (Rowman and Littlefield)
Philosophical Horizons: Introductory Readings, eds. Steven Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Irvine: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2005).
Knowledge and Reality: Classic and Contemporary Readings, eds. Steven Cahn, Maureen Eckert, Robert Buckley (Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2004).
Conferences
"Philosophical Futures of Pessoa: The Book of Disquiet and Theories of Consciousness," Antonia Vieira and Futures of Luso-Afro-Brazillian studies and Theory Conference UMD, May 2-3 2008. UMASS Dartmouth
"Euthyphro and the Logic of Miasma" Symposium on Greek Philosophy, New Jersey City University, April 26, 2008.
"Initiation into the Mysteries in the Meno," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Fordham University, NYC, Oct 21. 2007, "Euthyphro and the Logic of Miasma," Oct 12, N.N.E.P.A. annual meeting, "Is Plato's Apology a Dialogue?" AITNER, Athens Greece June 4th 2007, "Socratic Piety Revisited," Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, NYC Oct. 21, 2006
"What is Socratic Piety?" AITNER International Philosophy Conference, Athens Greece, June 1 2006
"'This Site is Under Construction:' Hegel and New Plato(s)" for The Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford University: Sept.2, '05
In Progress
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology and Crito with Aristophanes' Clouds in contract with Focus Publishing
A Synoptic Reading of Plato's Lysis and Phaedrus
In Memoriam: David Foster Wallace
Rest in Peace. Favorite response here.
Great Links
Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Journal of the International Plato Society: http://www.nd.edu/~plato/
Philosophers px/txt http://flickr.com/groups/philolsophers/pool/
Photography: http://www.parkeharrison.com/
Art: http://www.slovakculture.org/gallery/benca/mslide.html
Comics: http://www.jimwoodring.com/
Yoga in Providence, RI: http://www.innerhappiness.com/
Last Updated On: 5/22/09
