Evan Rodriguez
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: LA 250
Education
PhD, Philosophy and Classics (2016), Yale University
BA, Philosophy and Classical Culture & Society (2008), Haverford College
I received my PhD from Yale’s Philosophy and Classics program in 2016, after first falling in love with both subjects in the liberal arts context at Haverford College. My work uses philosophical and philological tools to help us understand ancient texts, to put them in conversation with modern problems, and to put us in conversation with each other.
Selected Awards
(2021). CHS academic year fellowship and 8-week residency. Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies.
(2021). IHC Research Fellowship, Idaho Humanities Council.
(2020). NEH Summer Stipend. National Endowment for the Humanities.
(2019). Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for Best Dissertation in Platonic Studies (for dissertations awarded between January 2014 and July 2018). International Plato Society.
Selected Publications
(2023). Problems of Being. The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists: 200-224.
(2022). A Long Lost Relative in the Parmenides? Plato’s Family of Hypothetical Methods. Apeiron 55 (1): 141-166.
(2020). Structure and Aim in Socratic and Sophistic Method. History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 23(1): 143–166.
(2020). ‘Pushing Through’ in Plato’s Sophist: A New Reading of the Parity Assumption. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 102(2): 159–188.
(2020). Aristotle's Platonic Response to the Problem of First Principles. Journal of the History of Philosophy 58(3): 449–469.
(2019). Untying the Gorgianic ‘Not’: Argumentative Structure in On Not-Being. Classical Quarterly 69(1):87-106.
(2019). More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis. Études Platoniciennes 15.
Current Courses
4460/5560: Theory of Knowledge
3305: History of Philosophy: Greek Reason and Christian Faith
2299: Life and Death
2220: Philosophical Issues in Religion
2210: Introduction to Asian Philosophies
1101: Introduction to Philosophy