Joshua Wilburn

Joshua Wilburn

Department

Philosophy

Research

Ancient Greek philosophy, history and philosophy of race and racism

Education

• B.A., Philosophy and Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (2005)
• Ph.D., Classical Philosophy, Princeton University (2011)

Selected publications

• The Political Soul: Plato on Thumos, Spirited Motivation, and the City, Oxford University Press (2021)
• “Gorgias of Leontini,” Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2869
• “Plato's Protagoras the Hedonist," Classical Philology 111.3 (2016): 224-44.
• “The Problem of Alcibiades: Plato on Moral Education and the Many,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49 (2015): 1-38.
• “Courage and the Spirited Part of the Soul in Plato's Republic,” Philosopher's Imprint 15.26 (2015): 1-21.
• “Akrasia and the Rule of Appetite in Plato's Protagoras and Republic,” Journal of Ancient Philosophy 8.2 (2014): 57-91.
• “Is Appetite Ever 'Persuaded'?: An Alternative Reading of Republic 554c-d,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 31.3 (2014): 95-208.
• “The Spirited Part of the Soul in Plato’s Timaeus,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 52.4 (2014): 627-54.
• “Moral Education and the Spirited Part of the Soul in Plato’s Laws,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 45 (2013): 63-102.
• “Tripartition and the Causes of Criminal Behavior in Laws ix,” Ancient Philosophy 33 (2012): 111-134.
• “Akrasia and Self-Rule in Plato’s Laws,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 43 (2012): 25-53.

Courses taught

• PHI 5800: Lovecraft Country and African American Philosophy
• PHI 5400: The Presocratics and Sophists
• PHI 5410: Plato
• PHI 5210: Philosophy of Race and Racism
• HON 4200: Plato and Black Feminist Thought
• PHI 2140: Ancient Greek Medicine and Psychology