Richard Kraut
Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information:

Date of Birth:   October 27, 1944

Place of Birth:  Brooklyn, New York

Office Address: Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1818 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208-1315

Home Address: 1415 Ashland Av., Evanston, IL 60201

Phone:  Office: (847) 491-2552; Home: (847) 492-1415



Education:

1965     B.A. in Philosophy, The University of Michigan

1969     Ph.D. in Philosophy, Princeton University



Employment:

Northwestern University
1997 - present Chair, Department of Philosophy
1997 - present Professor of Classics
1995 - present Professor of Philosophy

University of Chicago
Spring, 1997 Visiting Profesor

University of Illinois at Chicago
1989 - 95 Research Professor of the Humanities
1988 - 91 Chair, Department of Philosophy
1983 - 95 Professor of Philosophy
1976 - 83 Associate Professor of Philosophy
1969 - 76 Assistant Professor of Philosophy



Publications:

Books:

Socrates and the State, Princeton University Press, 1984

Aristotle on the Human Good, Princeton University Press, 1989

Co-Editor (with Terrence Penner): Nature, Knowledge, and Virtue: Essays in Memory of Joan Kung, Edmonton, Alberta: Academic Printing and Publishing, 1989

Editor: The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Editor: Critical Essays on Platos Republic, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.

Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII,  translation with commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.



Articles:

1. "The Rationality of Prudence," The Philosophical Review 81 (1972), pp. 351-9.

2. "Egoism, Love, and Political Office in Plato," The Philosophical Review 82 (1973), pp. 330-44. Reprinted in Great Political Thinkers, ed. by J.M. Dunn & Ian Harris, vol. 1, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997.

3. "Reason and Justice in Plato's Republic," in E. Lee, A. Mourelatos, and R. Rorty (eds.), Exegesis and Argument Studies in Greek Philosophy presented to Gregory Vlastos, (Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands, 1973), pp. 207-224. To be reprinted in T.I. Irwin, ed., Articles on Greek and Roman Philosophy, Garland Publishing Inc.; also to be reprinted in J.M. Dunn & Ian Harris, ed., Great Political Thinkers, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997.

4. "The Importance of Love in Aristotle's Ethics," Philosophy Research Archives 1 (1975), pp. 300-322.

5. "Aristotle on Choosing Virtue for Itself," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 58 (1976), pp. 223-239.
(To be reprinted in T.I. Irwin, ed., Articles on Greek and Roman Philosophy, Garland Publishing Inc.)

6. "Two Conceptions of Happiness," The Philosophical Review  88 (1979), pp. 167-197.  (Reprinted in Louis P. Pojman, ed., Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, , Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1989.  Reprinted in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993.  To be reprinted in T.I. Irwin, ed., Articles on Greek and Roman Philosophy, Garland Publishing Inc.)

7. "The Peculiar Function of Human Beings,"  The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 9 (1979), pp. 467-478.

8. "Plato's Apology and Crito: Two Recent Studies," Ethics 91 (1981), pp. 651-664 (essay-review of G. Santas, Socrates:  Philosophy in Plato's Early Dialogues, and A.D. Woozley, Law and Obedience:  The Arguments of Plato's Crito).

9. "Comments on Gregory Vlastos, 'The Socratic Elenchus'," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1 (1983), pp. 59-70.

10.  "Socrates on Democracy," in G. Currie and A. Musgrave (eds.), Popper on the Human Sciences,  Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), pp. 185-211. (This is a short version of Chapter VII, Socrates and the State).

11. "Comments on 'Disunity in the Aristotelian Virtues,' by T.H  Irwin," in Oxford Studies in Ancient  Philosophy, supplementary volume, 1988, pp. 79-86.

12.  "Reply to Orwin," Platonic Writings, Platonic Readings, edited by Charles Griswold (Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Inc., 1988, pp. 177-182.  (This is a reply to a critique of my book, Socrates and the State.)

13.  "Comments on Julia Annas' 'Self-Love in Aristotle'," in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 27 (1988), Supplement, pp. 19-23.

14.  "The Defense of Justice in Plato's Republic," in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 311-337.

15.  "Introduction to the Study of Plato," in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 1-50.

16. "In Defense of the Grand End," (an Essay-Review of Ethics with Aristotle by Sarah Broadie), in Ethics 103 (1993), pp. 361-74.

17.  "Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521," in John Cleary (ed.)  Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 7 (1991), Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, Inc., 1993, pp. 43-62. Reprinted in Great Political Thinkers, ed. by J.M. Dunn & Ian Harris, vol. 1, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997.

18. "Gregory Vlastos on Justice and Equality," in Apeiron 26 (1994), pp. 99-109.

19. "Desire and the Human Good," Presidential Address, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, in Proceedings and Addresses of th American Philosophical Association 68:2 (Nov. 1994), pp. 39-54. Reprinted in Value, Morality, and the Good Life, edited by Paul Moser and Thomas Carson, Oxford University Press, 1996.

20. "Socrates" and "Plato": 2 entries in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by R. Audi, 1995.

21. "Reply to Professor Roche," in May Sim, ed., The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995, pp. 139-48..

22. Critical Essay on Julius Moravcsik, Plato and Platonism. Noûs 29 (1995), pp. 547-55.

23. "Soul Doctors" (an essay-review of The Therapy of Desire by Martha Nussbaum), in Ethics 105 (1995), pp. 613-25

24. Are There Natural Rights in Aristotle? in The Review of Metaphysics 44 (1996), pp. 755-774 June 1996.

25. Virtue as a Means: Socrates in Platos Ethics by T. Irwin (an essay-review), Classical Philology 91 (1996) pp. 261-73.

26. "Aristotle on Method and Moral Education," in Method in Ancient Philosophy, ed. by Jyl Gentzler, Oxford  University Press, in press.

27. "Plato's Comparison of Just and Unjust Lives," in Platon: Politeia, ed. by Otfried Höffe, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997.

28. "Plato," in the Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy, ed. by Donald J. Zeyl, Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

29. Egoism and Altruism, in the Routledge Encyclpaedia of Philosophy, forthcoming.

30. "Aristotelianism and Libertarianism," an essay-review of Liberty and Nature by D. Rasmussen and D. Den Uyl, in Critical Review (forthcoming).

31. "Politics, Neutrality, and the Good," in Social Philosophy & Policy, forthcoming, 1998.



Reviews

1.   A.E. Taylor, Plato's Philebus and Epinomis, translation and introduction.  For The Classical World (1974), pp. 214-215.

2.   R.M. Dancy, Sense and Contradiction: A Study in Aristotle.  For Noûs 13 (1979), pp. 527-530.

3.   T. Irwin, Plato's Moral Theory  The Early and Middle Dialogues.  For The Philosophical Review 88 (1979), pp. 633-639.

4.   G. Santas, Socrates: Philosophy in Plato's Early Dialogues.  For Noûs 16 (1982), pp. 479-485.

5.   E. Telfer, Happiness.  For The Philosophical Review 92 (1983), pp. 131-135.

6.   R.F. Stalley, An Introduction to Plato's Laws.  For The Philosophical Review 94 (1985), pp. 123-127.

7.   J.C.B. Gosling & C.C.W. Taylor, The Greeks on Pleasure.  For The Philosophical Review 94 (1985), pp. 265-270.

8.   M. Montuori, Socrates  Physiology of a Myth.  For Ancient Philosophy 4 (1984), pp. 246-249.

9.   D. Charles, Aristotle's Philosophy of Action.  For Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophy 69 (1987), pp. 199-203.

10.  J. Elias, Plato's Defence of Poetry,  For Noûs 21 (1987), pp. 66-69.

11.  S. Panagiotou, ed., Justice, Law and Method in Plato and Aristotle.  For Canadian Philosophical Reviews 8 (1988), pp. 146-149.

12.  C.D.C. Reeve, Philosopher-Kings: The Argument of Plato's Republic, for Political Theory 18 (1990), pp. 492-496.

13.  J. Lear, Aristotle: the Desire to Understand. For The Philosophical Review 100 (1991), pp. 522-4.

14.  T. Irwin, Aristotle's First Principles. For The Philosophical Review 101 (1992), pp. 365-71.

15.  J. Cleary (ed.), Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. III (1987).  For Noûs 26 (1992), pp. 271-2.

16.  J. Shklar, The Faces of Injustice. For Ethics 102 (1992), pp. 393-5.

17.  J. Casey, Pagan Virtue:  An Essay in Ethics.  For Ethics 102 (1992), pp. 657-60.

18.  G. Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosoher. For The Philosophical Review 101 (1992), pp. 353-8.

19.  W. Galston, Liberal Virtues.  For Ethics 103 (1993), pp. 393-7.

20.  B. Williams, Shame and Necessity. For Ethics 105 (1994), pp. 178-81.

21.  G. Fine, On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms.  For The Philosophical Review 104 (1995), pp. 114-117.

22. B. Yack, Problems of a Political Animal.  For Political Theory  23 (1995), pp. 547-51.

23.  A. Kenny, Aristotle on the Ideal Life.  For Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995), pp. 731-4.

24. J. Annas, The Morality of Happiness.  For Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (1995), pp. 921-8.

25. T. Brickhouse & N. Smith, Platos Socrates.  For Ancient Philosophy 15 (1995), pp. 619-25.

26. M. McPherran, The Religion of Socrates. For Ancient Philosophy, forthcoming.

27.   Frequent book notes for Ethics, 1985 -  present.



Work in Progress:



Aristotle, Oxford University Press (part of the series: Founders of Social and Political Thought).




Fellowships and Academic Awards

1970 Summer Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago

1978-79 Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Illinois at Chicago

1980-81 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

1980-81 The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., Junior Fellow

Fall 82 Short Research Leave, University of Illinois at Chicago

1983-84 Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago

1987-88 National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research

1990-93 University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago

1996-98 Affiliate, Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University



Professional Offices and Activities

1984 Review Panel, Summer Stipends, National Endowment for the Humanities

1984-85  Program Committee, American Philosophical Association, Western Division

1985 - Editorial Board, Ethics

1986 - Editorial Board, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie

1988 Review Panel, Fellowships for College Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities

1988 Teaching Staff, Summer Institute on Aristotle, National Endowment for the Humanities

1989-90  Acting Co-Editor, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (temporarily replacing Edwin Curley)

1989-92  Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, American Philosophical Association

1989 -    Editorial Consultant, "The New Synthese Historical Library," Kluwer Academic Publishers (edited by Norman Kretzmann)

1990 - Editorial Board, History of Philosophy Quarterly

1991-92 Matchette Award Committee, American Philosophical Association

1992-93 Vice-President, American Philosophical Association, Central Division

1993-94 President, American Philosophical Association, Central Division

1994-5 Chair, Nominating Committee, American Philosophical Association, Central Division

1995-8 Final Selection Committee, Newcombe Fellowship

1997-2001  American Philosophical Association, Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession