Rachel Barney

Research interests: ancient philosophy, including the sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy and the commentary tradition. Selected recent-ish publications: “Eros and Necessity in the Ascent from the Cave”, forthcoming in Ancient Philosophy; “Aristotle’s Argument for a Human Function”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXXIV (May 2008), 293-322; “The Carpenter and the Good”, in Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, ed. D. Cairns, F.-G. Herrmann, T. Penner (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008), 293-319; “The Sophists”, in M.L. Gill and P. Pellegrin (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell), 77-97; “Socrates’ Refutation of Thrasymachus”, in G. Santas ed., The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 44-62; “Callicles and Thrasymachus”, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/, published August 2004); “A Puzzle in Stoic Ethics”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24 (Summer 2003), 303-340; “Platonism, Moral Nostalgia and the City of Pigs”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy XVII (2001), 207-227; Names and Nature in Plato’s Cratylus (New York: Routledge, 2001). Appointments: Jan. 2003-present: Canada Research Chair in Classical Philosophy, Departments of Classics and Philosophy, University of Toronto; 1998-2002: Assistant, then Associate (Fall 2002) Professor, University of Chicago (Philosophy); 1999-2000: Laurance Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University; 1997-8: Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard (Classics and Philosophy); 1995-7: Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa.