Philosophy

Dr. Palmer is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department.

Books

• The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo. Elements of Ancient Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Plato's Reception of Parmenides. Clarendon Press, 1999.

Select Recent Publications

• "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles". In David Wolfsdorf (ed.), Early Greek Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2020): 54-73.
• 'Presocratic Interest in the Soul's Persistence after Death'. In John E. Sisko (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity, vol. 1 of R. Copenhaver and C. Shields (gen. eds.) The History of the Philosophy of Mind (New York and London: Routledge, 2018): 23-43.
• 'Contradiction and Aporia in Early Greek Philosophy'. In V. Politis and G. Karamanolis (eds.), The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018): 9-28.
• 'The Early Tradition on Melissus and Parmenides'. In Jaap Mansfeld et al., Eleatica 2012: Melissus between Miletus and Elea, ed. Massimo Pulpito. (Sank Augustin: Acadamia Verlag, 2016): 150-6.
• 'Elemental Change in Empedocles'. Rhizōmata: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, vol. 4, no. 1 (2016): 30-54.
• 'The Pythagoreans and Plato'. In C. Huffman (ed.), The History of Pythagoreanism (Cambridge University Press, 2014): 204-26.
• 'The World of Early Greek Philosophy'. In F. Sheffield and J. Warren, eds., The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Routledge, 2014): 3-17.
• 'Parmenides'. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/ (Updated 2020.)
• 'Zeno of Elea'. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zeno-elea/ (Updated 2021.)