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Verity Harte

Verity Harte

Professor of Philosophy and Classics
Ct. Hall 402 (mail C 108)
203.432.1697
verity.harte@yale.edu

Areas of Interests

Ancient Philosophy and Metaphysics

Information on ancient philosophy at Yale can be found here

Education

Ph.D. 1994, St. Edmund’s and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge

Current or Recent Courses Taught

  • Directed Studies Philosophy Fall 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
  • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (Phil 125) Fall 2008, Fall 2011
  • Plato's Republic X (Greek reading) Spring 2007, Spring 2010
  • Aristotle Categories (with Susanne Bobzien) (Greek reading) Fall 2006
  • Plato's Philosophical Psychology (readings in translation) Spring 2007
  • Aristotle's Psychology: On Memory and related texts (with  Susanne Bobzien) (Greek      reading) Fall 2008
  • Plato's Parmenides (with Barbara Sattler) (Greek Reading) Fall 2008
  • Pleasure in Plato and Aristotle (readings in translation) Spring 2009
  • Aristotle on the voluntary, prohairesis and responsibility (EN lll.1-5, EE ll.1-6) (with Susanne Bobzien) (Greek Reading) Fall 2009
  • Plato's Sophist (with Barbara Sattler) (Greek reading) Fall 2010
  • Greco-Roman Theories of Emotion (Readings in translation) Spring 2011
  • Aristotle's Metaphysics XII (with John Hare) (Greek reading)
  • Plato's Philebus (readings in translation) Spring 2012

Selected Publications

  • Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford: Clarendon 2002. Paperback edition, Oxford: Clarendon February 2005.
  • Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato, BICS Supplementary Volume, London: Institute of Classical Studies, co-edited by V. Harte, M.M. McCabe, R.W. Sharples, A. Sheppard.  BICS Supplement 107.  London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 2010.
  • "Republic X and the role of the audience in art," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 38, 2010, 69-96
  • What's a Particular and what makes it so?  Some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle', Particulars in Greek Philosophy:  The Seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy ed. Robert W. Sharples, Leiden: Brill 2010, 97-125
  • "The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies: Something from Nothing?", One Book, the Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today, ed. Richard. Mohr & Barbara Sattler, Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2010, 131-40.
  • "The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies: Something from Nothing?", forthcoming in volume of papers from conference “Plato’s Timaeus: Life, the Universe, Everything–and More: New Work on Plato”, title as yet unknown, ed. Richard Mohr & Kirk Sanders, Parmenides Publishing.
  • ‘Reply to Matt Evans’ “Plato's Anti–Hedonism”’, forthcoming in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
  • ‘Platonic Metaphysics’, forthcoming in Oxford Handbook to Plato ed. Gail Fine Oxford: OUP
  • ‘Language in the Cave’, Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, ed. Dominic Scott, Oxford 2007, pp. 195–215.
  • ‘Beware of Imitations: Image Recognition in Plato’, New Essays on Plato ed. Fritz–Gregor Hermann, Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales 2006, pp. 21–42.
  • ‘The Philebus on Pleasure: the good, the bad and the false’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society II, 2003–4, pp. 111–128.
  • ‘Plato’s Problem of Composition’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, volume 17, 2002, pp. 1–17.
  • ‘Conflicting Values in Plato’s Crito’, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 81, 1999, pp. 117–147. Reprinted in R. Kamtekar ed Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology and Crito: Critical Essays, Rowman & Littlefield, December 2004, pp. 229–59.
  • ‘Quel prix pour la vérité? (Philèbe 64a7–66d3)’, La fêlure du plaisir: études sur le philèbe de platon 1. commentaires sous la direction de Monique Dixsaut, Paris: Vrin, 1999, pp. 385–401
  • Co–authored with Melissa Lane, ‘Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism: Catching Sextus Out?’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 2, 1999, pp. 157–172.
  • ‘Aristotle Metaphysics H6: a dialectic with Platonism’, Phronesis XLI, 3, 1996, pp. 276–304.

Ongoing Research

  • Work on Plato's Philebus for monograph for Cambridge Series, Studies in the Dialogues of Plato, edited M.M. McCabe
  • Work on Plato's Republic in connection with the Yale-King's College London Plato Republic Seminar
  • In preparation Politeia: Constitutions Human and Divine in Greek and Roman Philosophy, co-edited with Melissa Lane.  Under contract with CUP
  • In preparation, "Plato's politics of ignorance," paper for Politeia
  • In preparation, "Desire, Memory and the Authority of Soul: Plato Philebus 35cd," article in progress
  • In preparation, "Mixed Emotions about Comedy: Philebus 48a-50b," article in progress