Aidan Nathan
PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages
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I am a historian of philosophy with a PhD in Classics from the University of Sydney. My main area of interest is ancient Greek philosophy and I am (in the process of!) shifting my focus towards more generic issues in the historiography of philosophy - that is, I am looking into how historians of philosophy go about writing the history of philosophy. In particular, I am interested in the role played by hindsight, especially as it pertains to the Presocratics, who (by all accounts) inaugurated the Western tradition of philosophy.
- Research area
- Research outputs
Historiography of philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy
- 2023, ‘The Study of Being in Plato and Aristotle’, Peitho. Examina Antiqua 14, pp. 29-43.
- 2022, ‘Meno and the Slave’, Antichthon 56, pp. 58-76.
- 2022, ‘Why is Plato’s Good Good?’ Peitho. Examina Antiqua 13, pp. 125-36.
- 2016, ‘Protagoras’ Great Speech’, Classical Quarterly 67.2, pp. 380-99.
- 2013, ‘The Literary Function of Euthyphro’, Melbourne Historical Journal 41.2, pp. 59-80.