The University of Mississippi

Steven C. Skultety

Professional Background

I received my BA in Philosophy from the University of Montana in 1999 and then began my PhD work at Northwestern University. In 2006 I successfully defended my dissertation and also joined the faculty at Ole Miss.

Teaching Interests

Currently I am teaching Introduction to Philosophy, The History of Philosophy I (Ancient to Medieval), Plato, and Aristotle.  However, I am developing a class on the history of political philosophy and hope to offer future classes on virtue theory.  For graduate students, I will periodically be offering classes on specific, classic works of ancient philosophy and on topics that relate directly to my research interests.

Research Interests

My current research focuses on the way ancient philosophers understood human beings who were at odds with one another.  Currently my work focuses on Aristotle, but my long-term goal is to produce a work that will track arguments about interpersonal conflict from the Presocratics to the Stoics.  Outside of ancient philosophy, my research interests include virtue theory, republicanism, as well as democratic theory.

Publications

“Competition in the Best of Cities: Agonism and Aristotle’s Politics” Political Theory (forthcoming)

“Aristotle’s Theory of Partisanship.” POLIS  Vol. 25 No. 2 (2008)

“Currency, Trade, and Commerce in Plato's Laws.” History of Political Thought Vol.27 No.2 (2006)

Aristotle’s Politics. Critical Essays.  Richard Kraut and Steven Skultety eds. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)

“Is ‘Part of Justice’ Just at All? Reconsidering Aristotle’s Politics III.9.”  Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter 6(4) 24-34 (2005)

Reviews

Review of Ryan Balot’s Greek Political Thought (Blackwell, 2006) for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (6-16-2007)  Available on-line at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=10103

Review of Jill Frank’s A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2005) for Ethics Vol.116 No.2 (2006)

In Progress

“Delimiting Aristotle’s Conception of Stasis” (under review)

“Disputes of the Phronimoi:  Aristotle on the Limits of Legal and Political Disagreement”

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