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Notes on the Contributors


Anne-Marie Bowery is an a ssociate professor of philosophy at Baylor Universit y.
She also teaches in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core and codirects the Summer
Teaching Institute at Baylor. She has published several articles related to her
work on Plato and Platonic pedagogy, and she is at work on a monograph that
expands her chapter in this collection.


Bernard Freydberg is the author of The Play of the Platonic Dialogues and Pro-
vocative Form in Plato, Kant, Nietzsche (and Others). He has written and lectured
widely on Plato. His essay “Agon in the Platonic Dialogues” appeared in the
journal Iphitos, and “Rewriting Homer and Aristophanes in the Platonic Text”
appeared in Rewriting the Platonic Text. He is professor of philosophy at Slippery
Rock University.


Jill Gordon is a professor of philosophy at Colby College in Waterville, Maine,
and the author of Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure
in Plato’s Dialogues and numerous articles on Plato, literary theory, and political
philosophy.


Benjamin J. Grazzini received his Ph.D. from the New School for Social Re-
search. His work focuses on the Platonic and Aristotelian texts and the his-
tory of their reception. His dissertation is an account of the problem of self-
movement as it arises in Aristotle’s physical, psychological, and ethical treatises.
He is working on a study of the image of the wax block in relation to percep-
tion and memory in the Aristotelian tradition and medieval discussions of the
intellect.


Phil Hopkins is an assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of Reli-
gion and Philosophy at Southwestern University. His research focuses on early
Greek conceptions of cognition and language. He is completing a book on the
epistemological signifi cance and the relation of the expositional practices of
several early Greek thinkers, from Thucydides to Plato.


Gerard Kuperus completed his dissertation on Hegel and is assistant profes-
sor at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. His areas of interest include phenom-

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