Ron Polansky

Ron Polansky is an American philosopher and educator. He was a professor of philosophy at Duquesne University through 2019.^[1] He edits the journal Ancient Philosophy.^[2] He also edits Mathesis Publications. Polansky taught ancient philosophy. He is married to Susan Polansky, who taught at Carnegie Mellon University.

• (2024) Aristotle's Parva naturalia: Text, Translation, and Commentary, De Gruyter 978-3-11-123574-5
• (2017) Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition, co-edited with William Wians, Brill 9789004329584
• (2014) Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, edited, Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-12273-3
• (2007) Aristotle's De anima: A Commentary, Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86274-5
• (2000) Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues, co-edited with Mark Kuczewski, M.I.T. Press 0-262-61177-5
• (1992) Philosophy and Knowledge: A Commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus, Bucknell University Press 0-8387-5215-2

• “The Power of Aristotle’s Hylomorphic Approach” co-authored with Kelsey Ward, 2019 in Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity vol. 1. Pp. 141-159. Routledge
• “The Performance of Philosophizing in the Platonic Lovers” co-authored with Emily Katz, September 2018, American Journal of Philology 139: 397-421
• “Aristotle on Accidental Perception” co-authored with John Fritz, August 2018 in Aristotle-Contemporary Perspectives on his Thought--On the 2400th Anniversary of Aristotle’s Birth. Pp. 125-150. De Gruyter
• “The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism” co-authored with David Hoinski, in Continental Metaphysics – Ancient and Modern, Edinburgh University Press, March 2017, pp. 180-201.
• “Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Is a Work of Practical Science” in Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition, Brill, 2017, pp. 277-314.
• “Aristotle on Beauty in Mathematics” co-authored with David Hoinski, Dia-noesis October 2016, 2: 37-64
• “Plato on Women’s Natural Ability: Revisiting Republic v and Timaeus 41e3-44d2 and 86b1-92c3” co-authored with Chelsea Harry, Apeiron (2016) 49: 261-280
• “When Time is Accidental” co-authored with Chelsea Harry, in Le temps chez Aristote, ed. by L. Couloubaritsis et al., Paris: Vrin, 2015
• “Aristotle and Principlism in Bioethics” co-authored with Joseph Cimakasky, Diametros, September 2015. 45: 59-70
• “The gods’ horses and tripartite souls in Plato’s Phaedrus” co-authored with David Hoinski, Rhizomata fall 2014, 2: 139-160
• “Giving Justice its Due” 151-179 in Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 2014
• “Counting Hypotheses in Plato’s Parmenides” co-authored with Joseph Cimakasky, Apeiron (2012) 46: 229-243
• “Descartes’ ‘Provisional Morality’” co-authored with Joseph Cimakasky, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly September 2012, 93: 353-372
• "Function, Ability, and Desire in Plato's Republic" co-authored with Antonis Coumoundouros in volume honoring G.X. Santas, Philosophical Inquiry Spring 2008, 1–14.
• "Plot, Disease, and Bioethics" co-authored with Gabe Solomon M.D., Philosophical Inquiry Supplementary Volume Fall 2007, 29:154-169.
• "Mistakes, Chance and Bioethics" co-authored with Gabe Solomon M.D., Philosophical Inquiry Supplementary Volume Fall 2007, 29: 170–182.
• "The Bad Is Last but Does Not Last: Aristotle's Metaphysics Y 9" co-authored with Emily Katz, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy November 2006, 31: 233–242.
• "The Enduring Charm of Plato's Unwritten Doctrines" co-authored with Patrick Macfarlane, Philosophy, Competition and the Good Life. Vol 2. K. Boudouris and Kostas Kalimtzis editors. Ionia Publications: Athens, 2005, 262–271.
• "The Logic of Socratic Inquiry: Illustrated by Plato's Charmides" co-authored with Mark Brouwer, Socrates: 2400 Years Since His Death, International Symposium Proceedings, Vassilis Karasmais ed. European Cultural Center of Delphi, 2004, 233–245.
• "Disability in Earlier Greek Philosophers" co-authored with Patrick Macfarlane, Skepsis 15: 2004, 25–41.
• "Moral Virtue and Megalopsychia " co-authored with James Stover, Ancient Philosophy 23: 2003, 351–359.
• "Variety of Socratic Elenchi" co-authored with Micheele Carpenter in Gary A. Scott ed., Does Socrates Have a Method?: Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, 89–100.
• "Politeia is Aristotle's 'Best Constitution'" Iphitos 1: 2000, 59–70.

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