Philosophy Department Faculty

Marina McCoy

Professor

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Marina McCoy

Ph.D

Contact

Stokes Hall North Room 355

Telephone: 617-552-3858

Email: marina.mccoy@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., M.A., Boston University
  • B.A. Earlham College

Courses

Platonic Dialogues

Plato's Republic

Rhetoric: Truth, Beauty, Power

Personal and Social Responsibility

Mass Incarceration: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

Research Interests

Platonic rhetoric and literary form

Philosophy of vulnerability and trauma

Philosophy of incarceration

Office Hours

TH 10:30-12 or by appointment

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Philosophy

Publications (selected)

Image and Argument in Plato's Republic (forthcoming, SUNY, 2020)

Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 2013).

Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

"Rhetoric and Royalty: Odysseus' presentation of the female shades in Hades," Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language Before Plato (ed. Robin Reames) U. of South Carolina Press, 2017.

"Perspectivism and the Philosophical Rhetoric of the Dialogue Form," Plato Journal 16, (2016), 49-57.

"The City of Sows and Sexual Differentiation in Plato's Republic," chapter for Plato's Animals (eds. Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas), Indiana University Press, 2015.

"Alcidamas, Isocrates, and Plato on speech, writing, and philosophical rhetoric" Ancient Philosophy 29 (2), spring 2009.

"Sophistry and Philosophy in Plato's Republic," Polis volume 22(2), 2005.

"Reason and Dialectic in the Argument against Protagoras in the Theaetetus," International Philosophical Quarterly, volume 45 (1) (March 2005), 21-39.

"Philosophy, Elenchus, and Charmides's Definitions of Sophrosune" Arethusa 38 (2005), 133-159.

"Socrates on Simonides: The Use of Poetry in Socratic and Platonic Rhetoric," Philosophy and Rhetoric vol.32 (4), 1999: 349-367.

"Protagoras on Human Nature, Wisdom, and the Good: The Great Speech and the Hedonism of Plato's Protagoras." Ancient Philosophy vol. 18, 1998, 21-39.

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