Faculty
David O'Connor
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Concurrent in Department of Classics
Degrees
B.A., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Profile
O'Connor's main teaching and research interests are in ancient philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. He recently edited and introduced The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translation, and is working on the relationship between skepticism and Platonism in Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Butler Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. He is also co-editing and contributing to a forthcoming volume of new essays on the history and contemporary relevance of the notion of natural law. O'Connor is co-director of the undergraduate program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), and also regularly teaches in the Philosophy and Literature program. His recent graduate courses include: "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics," "Interpretation in Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Gadamer," "Nietzsche and the Greeks," "Shakespeare and the Origins of Philosophy," "Socrates and the Fall of Athens."
Contact Information
322 Malloy Hall
631-6226