Eve A. Browning. Curriculum Vitae. Ph.D. in philosophy University of California, San Diego, 1979

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1 Eve A. Browning Curriculum Vitae Personal Data: Education: Born April 14, 1952 Jacksonville, Florida U.S. citizen B.A. in philosophy and literature Phi Beta Kappa University of Florida, 1973 Ph.D. in philosophy University of California, San Diego, 1979 Dissertation: Eleatic and Platonic Semantics: a study of ways in which specific assumptions about meaning and reference shaped Greek ontology from Parmenides through Plato. Directed by Edward N. Lee. Areas of Specialization: Ancient philosophy; classical studies, feminist philosophy,. Areas of Competence: History of philosophy, especially early modern and 19th century; philosophy of religion; aesthetics; humanities. Language competences: Classical Greek, Latin, German. Academic appointments: Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014-present Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth Lecturer, University of Minnesota Duluth Assistant Professor, University of Denver Assistant Professor, Ohio State University Administrative Experience: University of Texas at San Antonio: Chair, Department of Philosophy & Classics, 2014-present University of Minnesota Duluth: Department Head, Philosophy , , , Faculty Fellow for Online and Technology Enhanced Learning,

2 Publications: (a) Books Director, UMD Honors Program Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts Special Project Associate for Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs 1994 Co-Director, UMD Environmental Studies Program Director, UMD Center for Ethics & Policy, Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice, co-edited with Susan Coultrap-McQuin. Indiana University Press, April Philosophy and Feminist Criticism, Paragon Issues in Philosophy Series, Paragon House, Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions, with D. Cole and F. Schroeder. Greenwood Press, (b) Papers "Autarkeia in Aristotle", University of Dayton Review 19 (1988-9). "Demonstrating the Pythagorean Intervals", Teaching Philosophy 11 (1988). "Women, Slaves, and Love of Toil in Aristotle's Ethics", Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Essays on the History of Western Philosophy edited by Bat-Ami Bar-On; SUNY Press "Theophrastus on Animal Intelligence", Rutgers Studies in Classical Philosophy vol.iv, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh (1991). "Enchantment and Semantics in Plato's Euthydemus", Proceedings of the IInd International Conference on Greek Philosophy, edited by Konstantin Boudouris; Kluwer, "Weaving and Practical Politics in Plato's Statesman", The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXXIX, Summer "Plotinus on the Souls of Beasts", Journal of Neoplatonic Studies I, Fall "The Soul of the Beast in Stoic Thought", Proceedings of the IVth International Conference on Greek Philosophy, edited by Konstantin Boudouris; Kluwer

3 "The Last Best Ally: Sophocles on the Death of Oedipus", Interdisciplinary Humanities X.1, Winter "Body, Mind, and Gender", Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader ed. Gary Kessler; Wadsworth 1994/2008. "Animal Politics: Visions of Animal Political Life in Ancient Greek Thought". Skepsis VII (fall 1996). A Peacemaking Way of Doing Philosophy, chapter 1 of Justice for Here and Now ed. James Sterba. Cambridge University Press Plato and Diotima, chapter 1 of An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy ed. Karen J. Warren (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009) Xenophon on Beauty, Xenophon 2 (2017) forthcoming. To Gaze Upon Panthea: Xenophon on Beauty and Risk, Skepsis International 2017 (forthcoming) (c) Reviews Review of Janet Radcliffe Richards, The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Inquiry. Women's Studies Review 3.2 (1981) Review of Zillah R. Eisenstein, The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism. Women's Studies Review 3.2 (1981) "From the Care Perspective"; review of Women and Moral Theory, edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Diana T.Meyers. The Women's Review of Books, January Review of "Ethics and Human Reproduction", by Christine Overall. Feminist Ethics 2 (1988), pp Review of Page dubois, Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy; 89:1 (Fall 1989), pp Review of Concerts of the Arts: Their Interplay and Modes of Relationship, by William Fleming. Humanities Education VIII.1 (1991), pp

4 Review of A History of Women Philosophers Volume I: 600 B.C.-500 A.D. by Mary Ellen Waithe; Teaching Philosophy 14 (1991) Review of Virtue and Venom: Catalogues of Women from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Glenda MacLeod, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3.3, Summer Review of Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Review of William O. Stephens, Stoic Ethics: Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Review of Vivienne J. Gray, Xenophon's Mirror of Princes: Reading the Reflections. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Review of Sandra Peterson, Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato Notre Dame Philosophical Review, Review of Kirk Ormand, The Hesiodic 'Catalogue of Women' and Archaic Greece. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Review of Peter Adamson, A History of Philosophy without any Gaps: Classical Philosophy. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (d) Books in Progress The Soul of the Beast in Greek Moral Philosophy; book on comparisons and contrasts between animal and human moral traits in classical and Hellenistic Greek literature. Xenophon: Soldier, Philosopher: Survey of Xenophon s life and thought in light of his commitment to practicality and usefulness, with special emphasis on his portrait of Socrates as the most useful of human beings and on the practical treatises. (e) Encyclopedia Article Xenophon (main article), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 4

5 Grants: Grant from the Minnesota Humanities Commission, to support national conference entitled "Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice", held at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, in October of ($3,050) University of Minnesota Graduate School Grant-in-Aid for purchase of IBYCUS Classical Languages Computer System; January 1989 ($7,050) Office of International Education (UM) travel grant for travel to Theophrastus Conference on Lesbos, August 1989 ($500). University of Minnesota Graduate School Grant-in-Aid for research assistance in preparation of bibliography in feminist ethics, June 1989 ($1350). NEH Summer Stipend 1990 ($3,500). Supplement to same from UM Graduate School ($1,500). UMD Research and Travel Grants: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005 ($500 each) UMD Technology Grant 2001: Web Development ($2500) UMD Technology Grant 2008: Development of Online Courses UTSA INTRA Seed Grant 2015: Ethics of Political Torture ($5000) Awards: Outstanding CLA Faculty Member (selected by UMD Student Association), 2001 Albert Tezla Teacher/Scholar of the Year, 2009 Reviewing: Panelist for NEH Summer Stipends, Book Manuscript reviewing for Interdisciplinary Humanities, Book Manuscript reviewing for Synthese Humanities Library, 1990,

6 Consulting: Book Manuscript reviewing for Paragon House Publishers, 1991 Book Manuscript reviewing for SUNY Press, , , 1999, 2002, 2006, 2012 Book Manuscript reviewing for Hackett Publishing, , 1995, 1997, 2003, 2015 Book Manuscript reviewing for Oxford University Press, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 Book Manuscript reviewing for Routledge 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016 Article Manuscript reviewing for the following philosophy journals: Apeiron, Ancient Philosophy, Hypatia, International Journal of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Neoplatonic Studies, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Southern Journal of Philosophy; 1988-present. Academic Program consultant for Ontario Council for Graduate Studies, External Reviewer: Philosophy Department, Augsburg College. Spring 2016 Professional Development: - - Participant in NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, entitled "Sophists and Skeptics: Ancient Greek Humanism", at the University of Texas, Austin, under direction of Paul R. Woodruff. Summer Participant in NEH Summer Institute on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Biology, and Ethics, at the University of New Hampshire, under the direction of Alan Gotthelf. Summer Presentations: (a) American Philosophical Association meetings: Central Division, Chicago 1982: Response to paper "Eros and Dialectic" by James Stephens. Pacific Division, Long Beach 1983; read paper entitled "Popular Romance and Women's Popular Culture". 6

7 Pacific Division, San Francisco 1987; read paper entitled "The Foundations of Aristotle's Ethics". Pacific Division, Portland, 1988; read paper entitled "Autarkeia in Aristotle". Central Division, Chicago, 1989; read paper entitled "Weaving and Practical Politics in Plato's Statesman". Central Division, Chicago, 1991; read paper to Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy entitled "Plato on the Souls of Beasts". Pacific Division, Portland 1992; read paper entitled "McPherran on Socratic Immortality" Central Division, Louisville 1992: read paper entitled "Aristotle and Myth" Central Division, Chicago 1993: read invited symposium paper entitled "Aristotle on the Relation between Family and Polis" Pacific Division, San Francisco 1995: response entitled Philia and Politics in Aristotle s Social Thought Pacific Division, Seattle 1996: read paper entitled "Transcendent Vice: Brutishness in the Aristotelian Ethics". Pacific Division, Spring 1999: read response paper entitled Justice and Happiness in Plato s Republic (b) Other than APA: National Women's Studies Association conference, Columbus 1982; read paper entitled "Feminist Methodology and Scientific Method: Re-Inventing the Flat Tire?" Conference on Folklore and Popular Culture, Columbus 1983; read paper entitled "Romance and `Romance': Why do Women read Harlequins?" Conference on the WPA Fine Arts Project, Denver 1983; read paper entitled "Censorship and Government Funding for the Arts". Conference for Women's History Week, Denver 1984; read paper entitled "Philosophies of Public and Private". 7

8 Minnesota Philosophical Society, Duluth 1986; read paper entitled "Aristotle on Women and Goodness". Humanities Forum, University of Minnesota, Duluth 1986; read paper entitled "Gendered Ethics". Aristotle Colloquium, University of Dayton, 1987; read paper entitled "Autarkeia in Aristotle". National Women's Studies Association, Minneapolis, 1988; read paper coauthored with Suzanne Steinbeigle entitled, "Feminist Ethics of Care and Endorsing the Stereotype". Minnesota Philosophical Society, Hamline University, 1988; read paper entitled "Weaving and Practical Politics in Plato's Statesman" Purdue University, Philosophy & Women's Studies Colloquium Series, 1989; "Aristotle on the Virtues of Women and Slaves". Vth International Theophrastus Conference, August 1-3, 1989; Eresos, Lesbos, Greece; read paper entitled "Theophrastus on Animal Intelligence". Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Philosophy Colloquium paper entitled, "Arisotle on PHILERGIA as a Female Virtue"; October Keynote Address entitled "Defining Philosophy: What Counts as the Real Thing?", Minnesota Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, College of St. Catherine, April IInd International Conference on Greek Philosophy, Samos, Greece; August 1990; "Enchantment and Semantics in Plato's Euthydemus". "Separating the Men from the Beasts: Accounts of the Foundations of Political Order in Classical Greek Thought", October 1990 meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, New York University. Classified Grief: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Newspaper Memoriam First Readings UMD; April Animals in Stoic Thought ; Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy & Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, Columbia University; October "Isocrates and Plato on the Meaning of Philosophy"; invited colloquium paper 8

9 presented at Inver Hills Community College and at UM-Twin Cities Philosophy Colloquium, February "The Soul of the Beast in Hellenistic Thought", paper presented at IIIrd International Conference on Greek Philosophy, Rhodes, Greece; August "Aristotle on the Relation between Family and Polis", paper presented at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy/Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science conference, Columbia University; October Philia in Aristotle and the Stoics, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy conference, SUNY-Binghamton; October 1993 and Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, College of St. Catherine; November "Why Plato? Feminist Interpretations of Platonic Thought", Annual Philosophy Colloquium, Roosevelt University, Chicago; April Finding the Wild Man at the Bottom of the Pond, First Readings UMD; April "Breaking the Law in a Good Cause? Civil Disobedience and Moral Imperialism", Eric Clitheroe Memorial Lecture, Purdue University, April Academic Death: Detective Fiction in University Settings, First Readings UMD; April Transcendent Vice: Brutishness in the Aristotelian Ethics",Minnesota Philosophical Society, Gustavus Adolphus College, October Animal Politics: Social and Political Relations among Non-human Animals in Ancient Greek Thought ; International Association for Ancient Greek Philosophy Conference; Olympia, Greece; August "Technology and Nature along the Divided Line"; Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, SUNY-Binghamton, October On Misunderstanding Presocratic Science ; Arizona Plato Colloquium, Tucson, April Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, UMTC, April 1998; presented paper entitled Aristotle on Moral Depravity. 9

10 UMD Philosophy Colloquium, April 1998; presented paper entitled, Ethics of Ecoterrorism. Conference on Rhetoric and Humanism, University of Iowa, October 1999; presented paper entitled Isocrates, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Tradition. Equine Psychology in Xenophon s Peri Hippikes, Conference on Global and Cultural Studies, Binghamton University; October Tragedy and Moral Complexity, Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, College of St. Catherine; April Aristotle on the Psychopathology of Extreme Vice ; Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy; College of St. Catherine s, April It Will Not Always be Summer : Work Ethic in Hesiod s Erga kai Hemerai ; CLA Research Thursdays, September Revised version of same paper presented at Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, April Xenophon on the Minds of Horses, Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy; University of Minnesota Twin Cities, April Xenophon on Risky Beauty, Minnesota Philosophical Society, October Xenophon s Socrates, Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, April Liberty Fund Conferences: "The Religious Dimension in the Philosophies of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke", Louisville, Kentucky; April Plato and Bacon on Liberty and the Soul ; Toronto ON; April Michael Oakeshott's Political Thought, Chicago; May Liberty and Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics, Minneapolis MN; July Aristophanes and Socrates on Gender and Liberty, Prout s Neck, Maine; 10

11 October Plato s Republic Colorado Springs CO; March Liberty and Moral Decline, Charleston SC; April Laughter and Liberty, Prout s Neck, Maine; October Character Formation in Liberal Society, Jackson Hole WY; April Spinoza as Architect of Modern Freedom, St. Petersburg FL; December Hegel s Philosophy of Right, Clearwater FL; March Ideals of Liberty in Montesquieu, Big Sky MT; November Liberty in Hawthorne s Shorter Fiction, Prout s Neck, Maine; December Professional Memberships: Phi Beta Kappa American Philosophical Association Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy International Society for Greek Philosophy 11