Joshua Wilburn

Department

Philosophy

Secondary Title

Department Chair

Office

5057 Woodward Ave.
12th Floor, Room 12002.3

Selected publications

• "Plato's Republic and Black Feminist Thought," British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2024): 1–15. doi:10.1080/09608788.2024.2364032
• "Feminizing the City: Plato on Women, Masculinity, and Thumos" (co-authored with Kirsty Ironside), Hypatia (2024): 1-24. doi:10.1017/hyp.2023.124
• "Gorgias of Leontini and Plato's Gorgias," in Clerk Shaw (ed.) Plato's Gorgias: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 7–26.
• "Gorgias on Knowledge and the Powerlessness of Logos," Humanities 12, 9 (2023): 1-15. doi.org/10.3390/h12010009
• 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

Research Description

Affiliated Departments

• Philosophy