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J. J. Mulhern

Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Government Administration
Director of Professional Education at the Fels Institute of Government
Contact Information
Office Address: 
Fels Institute of Government
Phone: 
(215) 898-8217
Email Address: 
Education: 

Ph.D. (Philosophy), State University of New York, Buffalo, 1970

M.A. (Philosophy), Fordham University, 1961

B.A. Fordham University, 1960

Research and Teaching Interests: 
  • Government and politics from classical antiquity to the present
  • Interpretation, especially interpretation of the Platonic dialogues
  • History of logic
  • Classical tradition
Selected Publications: 

“ΤΡΟΠΟΣ and ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΙΑ in Plato's ‘Hippias Minor’,” Phoenix 22 (1968), pp. 283-288.

“Treatises, Dialogues, and Interpretation,” The Monist 53 (1969), pp.631-641.

“Two Interpretative Fallacies,” Systematics 9 (1971), pp. 168-172.

“ΜΙΑ ΜΟΝΟΝ ΠΑΝΤΑΧΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΦΥΣΙΝ Η ΑΡΙΣΤΗ (EN 1135a5),” Phronesis 17 (1972), pp. 260-268.

“Modern Notations and Ancient Logic,” in Ancient Logic and its Modern Interpretations, ed. J. Corcoran ("Synthese Historical Library," Vol. 9; Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1974), pp. 70-81.

Editor, Population Policy in Plato and Aristotle (Arethusa 8, 2 [special issue]), 1975.

“ΠΑΡΡΗΣΙΑ in Aristotle,” in Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, Mnemosyne Supplement 254, ed. Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen (Leiden:  Brill, 2004), pp. 313–339.

“The Ariste Politeia and Aristotle’s Intended Audience in the Politica,” Polis 24, 2 (2007), pp. 284-297.

“ΚΑΚΙΑ in Aristotle,” in Badness, Mnemosyne Supplement 307, ed. Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 233-254.

Recent Courses: 

(undergraduate) Ancient and Modern Constitutionmaking; The Classics and American Government (both in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars program); Ancient Philosophy (at Bryn Mawr College)

(graduate, at Bryn Mawr College) Aristotle, Plato