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According to Wikipedia, David Roochnik is an American philosopher and the Maria Stata professor of philosophy at Boston University. Prior to completing his doctorate degree at Pennsylvania State University in 1995, Professor Roochnik taught at Iowa State University and Williams College. He joined the philosophy department at Boston University in 1995.

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David Roochnik's Published Works

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Of Art and Wisdom: Plato's Understanding of Techne (1996) (97)
The Cambridge Companion to Plato (1994) (97)
What is Theoria? Nicomachean Ethics Book 10.7–8 (2009) (72)
Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy (2001) (50)
Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's "Republic" (2003) (35)
Socrates's Use of the Techne-Analogy (2008) (35)
THE REPUBLIC (2004) (31)
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (review) (1988) (27)
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xiii (1988) (27)
PLAY AND SPORT (1975) (26)
The Tragedy of Reason: Towards a Platonic Conception of Logos (1990) (24)
Aristotle's Defense of the Theoretical Life: Comments on Politics 7 (2008) (17)
Plato’s Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind (2002) (14)
Substantial City: Reflections On Aristotle’s Politics (2010) (13)
Self-Recognition in Plato’s Theaetetus (2002) (13)
Is Rhetoric an Art (1994) (11)
Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis (2012) (10)
The Riddle of the Cleitophon (1984) (10)
Teaching Virtue: The Contrasting Arguments (Dissoi Logoi) of Antiquity (1997) (10)
The Deathbed Dream of Reason: Socrates' Dream in the Phaedo (2001) (10)
Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy (2004) (8)
The Political Drama of Plato’s Republic (2009) (7)
The Serious Play of Plato's « Euthydemus » (1990) (6)
Residual ambiguity in Plato's Statesman (2005) (6)
Plato's Critique of Postmodernism (2011) (5)
The Quarrel between poetry and philosophy Poetry as Philosophical Self-Criticism (2016) (4)
Socrates’ Pedagogical Flexibility: Two Case Studies (2001) (4)
Stanley fish and the old quarrel between rhetoric and philosophy (1991) (4)
Counting on Number: Plato on the Goodness of Arithmos (1994) (4)
Images as Images: Commentary on Smith (1997) (3)
Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation (2003) (3)
Plato’s Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing (1983) (2)
Plato's Use of ATEXNWS (1987) (2)
Irony and Accessibility (1997) (2)
Can the Relativist Avoid Refuting Herself? (2011) (2)
Applied Ethics: Some Platonic Questions (1987) (1)
The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry: Studies in Ancient Thought (1990) (1)
Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates (2016) (1)
Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature, translated by Michael Chase (Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006), XIV + 399 pp. (2008) (1)
Courage and Shame: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics III.6-9 (2016) (1)
Ronna Burger’s Talmudic Reading of the Nicomachean Ethics (2010) (1)
Discussion note IN DEFENSE OF PLATO: A SHORT POLEMIC (2014) (1)
Eat, Drink, Think (2020) (1)
Is Logos Unconditionally Good? (2021) (0)
Logos is Unconditionally Good (2021) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind (2004) (0)
The Useful Uselessness of the Humanities (2008) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
From Plato to Platonism (2015) (0)
Logos is Conditionally Good (0)
"Techne" and praxis in the Platonic dialogues (1981) (0)
The Tragic Philosopher: A Critique of Martha Nussbaum (1988) (0)
Pleasure, Knowledge, and Being: An Analysis of Plato's "Philebus" (review) (2008) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic (2010) (0)
Introduction (0)
The Wisdom of Plato’s Phaedo (2008) (0)
Epilogue (0)
The Beginning of Philosophy (1999) (0)
Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos by George Duke (review) (2021) (0)
Ancient Mousikē: Technē or Epistēmē? (2022) (0)
Eric Salem, In Pursuit of the Good: Intellect and Action in Aristotle’s Ethics (Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books, 2010), 194 pp. (2011) (0)
The Tragedy of Reason (2021) (0)
Books Received (1976) (0)
Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (review) (2000) (0)
COMMENTARY ON SCOTT (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Teaching Aristotle in advance (2022) (0)
On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato's "Laches" (review) (2008) (0)
Plato’s Lysis and the Erotics of Philia (2023) (0)
The problems of a political animal: Community, justice, and conflict in Aristotelian political thought: Bernard Yack (University of California Press, 1993), ix + 309 pp., $45.00 cloth, $14.00 paper (1995) (0)
The Questions of Drew Hyland (2019) (0)
Who Speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity (review) (2003) (0)
2. Aristotle’S Topological Politics; Michael Sandel’S Civic Republicanism (2016) (0)
Plato and Aristotle on the Emerging Medium (2015) (0)
Announcements (2008) (0)
Announcement (1976) (0)

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