“Is Plato Still Relevant?”

Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Marina McCoy, professor of philosophy…

An episode of the WHY? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life podcast, hosted by Jack Russell Weinstein / Prairie Public, titled "“Is Plato Still Relevant?”" was published on September 8, 2024 and runs 80 minutes.

September 8, 2024 ·80m · WHY? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life

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Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Marina McCoy, professor of philosophy at Boston College. She is the author of the books Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists (Cambridge University Press, 2007) , Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy (Oxford U Press, 2013), and Image and Argument in Plato’s Republic (SUNY, 2020). Her interests range from ancient philosophy to ethics and the philosophy of mass incarceration and environmental ethics.

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Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Marina McCoy, professor of philosophy at Boston College. She is the author of the books Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists (Cambridge University Press, 2007) , Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy (Oxford U Press, 2013), and Image and Argument in Plato’s Republic (SUNY, 2020). Her interests range from ancient philosophy to ethics and the philosophy of mass incarceration and environmental ethics.

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