Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy

Christopher P. Long is Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Education in the College of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy and Classics at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published numerous articles on ancient Greek philosophy, specifically on Aristotle and Plato; critical theory; twentieth-century continental philosophy; and the history of philosophy. His articles have appeared in journals including the Review of Metaphysics, Polis, Epoche, Continental Philosophy Review, the Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Ancient Philosophy. He is author of The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy (2004) and Aristotle on the Nature of Truth (2011). He has served on the executive committee of the Ancient Philosophy Society for nine years, including three as co-director. A leader in the innovative use of digital technologies for academic research and pedagogy, he is the creator and host of the Digital Dialogue, a podcast dedicated to cultivating the excellences of dialogue in a digital age. Before coming to Penn State in 2004, he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Richard Stockton College in New Jersey. He received his PhD in 1998 from the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research.