Ronna C. Burger, Ph.D.

Ph.D. New School for Social Research, 1975

Professor
Department of Philosophy
Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair, Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies

Email:
rburger@tulane.edu

Office:
105F Newcomb Hall

Phone:
(504) 861-8640

Academic Interests:

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Philosophy of Religion

Books:

• Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics. (University of Chicago Press, Spring 2008)
• The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth. (Yale, 1984. Reprinted - St. Augustine's Press 1999)
• Plato's Phaedrus. (Alabama, 1980)

Books Edited:

• The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete. (Chicago, 2000)
• Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete. (Chicago, 2002)

Selected Articles:

• "The Erotic and the Thumotic Soul," Interpretation, Winter 2004-05.
• "Aristotle on Mimesis: The Visual Image and the Plot of Tragedy," Key Writers on the Arts, December 2002.
• "Male and Female Created He Them: Some Platonic Reflections on Genesis 1-3," in The Nature of Woman and the Art of Politics, edited by Eduardo Velasquez, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).

Recent Papers Presented:

• "Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed I.2," American Philosophical Association, December 2007.
• "Self-Restraint and Virtue: Sages and Philosophers in Maimonides' Eight Chapters," American Philosophical Association, December 2006.