Eric Brown

Title:	Associate Professor of Philosophy
Degree:	PHD, University of Chicago MA, University of Chicago BA, University of Chicago
Dept:	Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities Philosophy Religious Studies
Office:	Wilson Hall 213
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1073 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-4257
E-mail:	eabrown@wustl.edu

Courses
Aristotle, Problems in Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Great Philosophers

Research Interests
Professor Brown's expertise is in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, and he is especially interested in how ancient approaches to philosophical ethics fare in comparison with modern moral philosophy. For him, these questions are most interesting at the boundaries between ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, that territory where questions about how a person should live bleed into questions about how a person can know how she should live and into questions about the relation between how one conceives of how one should live and how the world is.

Professor Brown's research at the moment is more particularly focused on two distinct programs, one to assess the meaning, significance, and plausibility of the ancient Stoics' claims that the world as a whole is the true city and that a good human being lives as a citizen of the world and the other to come to grips with the fundamental "eudaimonist" commitment of philosophical ethics in ancient Greece and Rome.

Selected Publications:

"Aristotle on the Choice of Lives: Two Concepts of Self-Sufficiency." in a volume of essays in the series Aristote: Traductions et Etudes, ed. Pierre Destree (Louvain: Peeters), 2005.

"Wishing for Fortune, Choosing Activity: Aristotle on External Goods and Happiness." Proeedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 21, 2005.

"Plato on the Rule of Wisdom," in Spindel Conference 2004: Ancient Ethics and Politics, ed. Tim Roche (Southern Journal of Philosophy 43 s.v.), 84-96, 2005.

"Minding the Gap in Plato's Republic." Philosophical Studies 117:275-302, 2004.

"Epicurus on the Value of Friendship (Sententia Vaticana 23)." Classical Philology 97: 68-80, 2002.