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Aidan Nathan

Aidan Nathan

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

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I am a historian of philosophy with a PhD in Classics from the University of Sydney. My main area of interest is ancient Greek philosophy and I am (in the process of!) shifting my focus towards more generic issues in the historiography of philosophy - that is, I am looking into how historians of philosophy go about writing the history of philosophy. In particular, I am interested in the role played by hindsight, especially as it pertains to the Presocratics, who (by all accounts) inaugurated the Western tradition of philosophy.

Historiography of philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy

  • 2023, ‘The Study of Being in Plato and Aristotle’, Peitho. Examina Antiqua 14, pp. 29-43.
  • 2022, ‘Meno and the Slave’, Antichthon 56, pp. 58-76.
  • 2022, ‘Why is Plato’s Good Good?’ Peitho. Examina Antiqua 13, pp. 125-36.
  • 2016, ‘Protagoras’ Great Speech’, Classical Quarterly 67.2, pp. 380-99.
  • 2013, ‘The Literary Function of Euthyphro’, Melbourne Historical Journal 41.2, pp. 59-80.