Mark
Anderson
Education:
2003-2004: Ohio
State University: Greek Studies.
2000: Vanderbilt
University: M. A., Classical Studies.
Thesis: “Socrates as Hoplite: Ancient
Warfare and Socratic Ethics.”
1998: Vanderbilt
University: Ph.D., Philosophy.
Dissertation: “Recovering a Lost
Tradition: H. L. Mencken’s Nietzsche.”
1994: University
of Calgary: M. A., Philosophy.
1992: Belmont
University: B. A., Philosophy.
Areas of Specialization:
Ancient Philosophy
Nietzsche
Ancient Greek language and culture.
Research and Publications:
Texts:
Plato and Nietzsche: Their Philosophical Art (forthcoming from Bloomsbury).
Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One (Sophia Perennis 2009).
Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues (online text co-authored with
Dr. Ginger Osborn).
Translations:
The “myths” from Plato’s Protagoras
(320c-324d), Symposium (189c-193d), Republic (614b-
621d), Timaeus
(20d-25d and 29d-34b), and Kritias (108e-121c). Available in Gods,
Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek,
Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in
Translation, Carolina López-Ruiz (ed.).
Oxford University Press, 2013.
Reviews and Articles:
“Melville in the Shallows” (Philosophy and Literature 36.2, 2012).
“On Professor Young, Again” (The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43.2, 2012).
“Telling the Same Story of Nietzsche’s Life” (The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 42, 2011).
“Alêthê Legeis: Speaking the Truth in Plato’s Republic” (Ancient Philosophy, fall 2010).
“Dialectic
of Assent” (a minor contribution to the study of response phrases in Republic I).
“Argument
Norms in Republic I” (co-authored
with Dr. Scott F. Aikin, Philosophy in
the
Contemporary World, fall 2006).
“Socrates as Hoplite” (Ancient Philosophy, fall 2005).
Web Links for Class:
Objectivism and
Relativism quiz