Ronna C. Burger (born December 5, 1947) is an American philosopher and Professor of

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, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair, and Sizeler Professor of

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Career

She received her PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty and has been teaching at Tulane since 1980. Her research has been supported by the

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, the

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and

Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation or Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung is an independent foundation in Germany with the goal of promoting the humanities and the sciences. It is named after Carl Friedrich von Siemens and was founded in 1958 ...

. She is the author of books and articles on

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

and

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

, and her graduate seminars on those thinkers have often led to dissertations in

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. In recent years she has extended her studies to

Maimonides Musa ibn Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (); la, Moses Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam ( he, רמב״ם), was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah ...

and the

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, writing essays, teaching courses, and lecturing on numerous college campuses.

Books

* ''On Plato's Euthyphro'' (Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, 2015) * '' Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics'' (Chicago, 2008) * ''The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth'' (Yale, 1984. Reprinted, St. Augustine's Press 1999) * '' Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing'' (Alabama, 1980) * ''The Eccentric Core: the Thought of Seth Benardete'' co-edited with

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(St. Augustine's Press, 2017) * ''The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete'', co-edited with Michael Davis (St. Augustine's Press, 2012) * ''Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete'' (ed.) (Chicago, 2002) * ''The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy'' by Seth Benardete, co-edited with Michael Davis (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

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Ronna Burger at Tulane University
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