J. J. MULHERN
Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Government Administration
Director of Professional Education at the Fels Institute of Government
Education
Ph.D. (Philosophy), State University of New York, Buffalo, 1970
M.A. (Philosophy), Fordham University, 1961
B.A. Fordham University, 1960
Teaching and research
Government and politics from classical antiquity to the present
Interpretation, especially interpretation of the Platonic dialogues
History of logic
Classical tradition
Courses taught
(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
Some early publications
"TROPOS and POLUTROPIA 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.
"MIA MONON PANTACHOU KATA PHUSIN HE ARISTE (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.
Some recent publications
PARRHESIA 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.
"KAKIA in Aristotle,” in Badness, Mnemosyne Supplement 307, ed. Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 233-254.
Contact
Office: Fels Institute of Government
Phone: (215) 898-8217
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