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Rachana Kamtekar

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
Moral Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
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Rachana Kamtekar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona.  She specializes in Ancient Philosophy, and is currently writing a book entitled The Powers of Plato's Psychology.

Selected Publications

     
‘Plato on Education and Art’, in The Oxford Handbook to Plato ed. Gail Fine (2008).
 
 ‘Speaking with the Same Voice as Reason: Personification in Plato’s         Psychology’,  in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. XXXI, Winter 2006.
 
‘Plato on the Attribution of Conative Attitudes’ Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie,    Band 88,, Fall 2006.
 
‘The Politics of Plato’s Socrates’, in A Companion to Socrates (eds. Ahbel-Rappe and Kamtekar, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, Blackwell, 2006).
 
‘The Friendship of Politics: Callicles, Democratic Politics, and Rhetorical Education in Plato’s Gorgias’ Ancient Philosophy, Fall 2005.
 
 ‘Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character,’ Ethics, vol. 114, no. 3 (April 2004).
 
‘What’s the Good of Agreeing?: Homonoia in Platonic Politics,’ Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy vol. XXVI  (Summer 2004).
 
‘Distinction without a Difference? Plato on 'Genos' vs. 'Race',’ Traditional Philosophers on Race (Blackwell, 2002).
 
 ‘Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic: Plato’s Two Principles,’ History of Political Thought vol. 22, 2001.
 
 ‘Imperfect Virtue,’ Ancient Philosophy 18, Fall 1998.
 
 ‘Aidôs in Epictetus,’ Classical Philology 93, April 1998.