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Philosophy Department

Rose Cherubin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information:
Office: Robinson Hall B462
Email:rcherubi@gmu.edu
Phone: 703 993-1332

Website:
Homepage: www.gmu.edu/courses/phil/ancient/index.htm

Office Hours:
Tue | 4:30-5:30 pm | Thur | 3:00-4:00 pm |
and by appointment

Fall 2008 Courses:
PHIL 301 History of Western Philosophy (3)

Phil 301 001 | TR | 5:55-7:10 pm | 72051
 
Phil 301 002 | TR | 1:30-2:45 pm | 72052

Areas of Interest:
Professor Cherubin received her B.A from The School of Visual Arts and her Ph.D. from City University of New York Graduate Center. Her research interests include ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. She is currently working on an article on the metaphysics of justice in Aeschylus’ Eumenides, and on a book manuscript on Parmenides.

Her publications include:

“Why Matter? Aristotle, the Eleatics, and the Possibility of Explanation.” The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 26.2, Fall 2005

“Light, Night, and the Opinions of Mortals: Parmenides B8.50-61 and B9.” Ancient Philosophy 25, Spring 2005

“Modernity, Philosophy, and the Color Line: A Response to Frank Kirkland.” Du Bois Lecture Monographs vol. 1 (2005): 42-59

“Parmenides’ Poetic Frame.” International Studies in Philosophy 36 (2004): 7-38

“Aletheia and Inquiry in Parmenides.” Proceedings of the Ancient Philosophy Society 2004: 1-20

“Inquiry and What Is: Eleatics and Monisms.” Epoché 8.1 (2003): 1-26

“Zeno’s Paradoxes and the Episteme of Phusis.” Proceedings of the Ancient Philosophy Society 2002

“Legein, Noein, and To Eon in Parmenides.” Ancient Philosophy 21 (2001): 277-303

“What is Eleatic About the Eleatic Stranger?” In G.A. Press, ed., Plato’s Dialogues: New Studies and Interpretations, pp. 215-35. Rowman & Littlefield, 1993