Joshua Wilburn
Faculty Profile
Department Chair
fl2534@wayne.edu
Department
Philosophy
Secondary Title
Department Chair
Office
5057 Woodward Ave.
12th Floor, Room 12002.3
Selected publications
"Feminizing the City: Plato on Women, Masculinity, and Thumos"
(co-authored with Kirsty Ironside), Hypatia (2024): 1-24. doi:10.1017/hyp.2023.124
The Political Soul: Plato on
Thumos
, Spirited Motivation, and the City
, Oxford University Press (2021)
"Gorgias on Knowledge and the Powerlessness of Logos,"
Humanities 12, 9 (2023): 1-15. doi.org/10.3390/h12010009
“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
Research Description
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Skepticism, Greek orators and sophists
Affiliated Departments
Philosophy