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Douglas Shepardson

Assistant Professor
Research
Ancient Philosophy, Epistemology, Early Modern (17th and 18th Centuries), and more
Home Page
philpeople.org/profiles/douglas-a-shepardson

Douglas A. Shepardson is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department. His area of expertise is Ancient Greek Philosophy. He received a Ph.D. from Fordham University in 2022, defending a dissertation on Plato's Theory of Recollection. Before that, he studied languges and early Christian texts at Union Theological Seminary, receiving a M.A. for a thesis on Greek Philosophy's influence on Origen of Alexandria.

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Professor Shepardson's most recent publication is "The Many Do Not Recollect: The Nature and Scope of Recollection in the Phaedrus," which is currently forthcoming in Apeiron. He has also recently published an article on Meno's Paradox (The Southern Journal of Philosophy), and two articles on Plato's theory of recollection in the Meno (The Classical Quarterly and History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis). For more information about these, as well as his other work, see his PhilPapers profile here.

He is currently working on various projects about Plato's epistemology, an article on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Zeta, and an article on Plato's Apology, the Thirty Tyrants, and the Athenian Civil War.

His teaching and ancillary research interests include contemporary Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, and the Philosophy of Mind, as well as Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy.

Areas of Specialization

  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Early Modern (17th and 18th Centuries)
  • Early Medieval/Patristics (especially Christian Platonism)
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Mind

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Thursday: 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm

Contact Details

Douglas Shepardson

Philosophy
68th Street West 1447
(212) 772-4970
ds6992@hunter.cuny.edu

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