Douglas A. Shepardson

Assistant Professor

douglasashepardson@gmail.com
Office: 1447 Hunter West
Office Hours: Thursday 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm

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.

His 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.