Faculty Profile

Suzanne Obdrzalek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

E-mail: suzanne.obdrzalek@claremontmckenna.edu
Phone: (909) 621-8842
Campus Address: Roberts North 219

Departments:

Leave/Sabbatical
Academic Year (on leave or sabbatical for the entire academic year)

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Philosophy, Program in Ancient Philosophy, 2004; B.A. Stanford University, Department of Philosophy, 1997

Teaching Interests

  • Ancient Philosophy

Research Interests

  • Plato's Moral Psychology
  • Ancient Skepticism

Selected Research and Publications

  • Invited Review of F. Sheffield, _Plato's Symposium: the Ethics of Desire_: Classical Review 58.1 (forthcoming)
  • Review of T. Penner and C. Rowe, _Plato's Lysis_: Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  • Living in Doubt: Carneades’ Pithanon Reconsidered: _Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy_ Vol. 31 (Winter 2006)
  • Fleeing the Divine: Plato's Rejection of the Ahedonic Ideal in the _Philebus_: under review
  • Asceticism and Eroticism in Plato's _Symposium_: under revision
  • Aristophanic Tragedy in Plato’s _Symposium_: under revision
  • Philosophic Contemplation and Psychic Ordering in Plato’s _Republic_: under revision
  • What is Apraxia?: under revision
  • The Role of the Beautiful in Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology: in progress