Ronna C. Burger
Born (1947-12-05) December 5, 1947
EducationNew School for Social Research (Ph.D.)
AwardsTulane University Dissertation Director Award, Professional Scholarly Publishing Prose Award, Fellowships from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Earhart Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsTulane University
Doctoral advisorSeth Benardete
Main interests
Plato, Aristotle, Maimonides, Hebrew Bible

Ronna C. Burger (born December 5, 1947) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair, and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University.[1][2]

Career

She received her PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty and has been teaching at Tulane since 1980. Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Earhart Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. She is the author of books and articles on Plato and Aristotle, and her graduate seminars on those thinkers have often led to dissertations in ancient philosophy. In recent years she has extended her studies to Maimonides and the Hebrew Bible, writing essays, teaching courses, and lecturing on numerous college campuses.[3]

Books

  • On Plato's Euthyphro (Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, 2015)
  • Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics (Chicago, 2008)
  • The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth (Yale, 1984. Reprinted, St. Augustine's Press 1999)
  • Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing (Alabama, 1980)
  • The Eccentric Core: the Thought of Seth Benardete co-edited with Patrick Goodin (St. Augustine's Press, 2017)
  • The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete, co-edited with Michael Davis (St. Augustine's Press, 2012)
  • Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete (ed.) (Chicago, 2002)
  • The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete, co-edited with Michael Davis (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

References

  1. ↑ "Ronna Burger" (PDF). Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Ronna C. Burger". Hudson Institute Political Studies. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Skultety, Steven (11 January 2009). "Review of Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

Further reading

  • Speliotis, Evanthia. 2020. Nature, Law, and the Sacred: Essays in Honor of Ronna Burger. Mercer University Press.


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