NICKOLAS PAPPAS Professor of , City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. [email protected]

POSITIONS HELD 2017- Executive Officer (Chair), Program in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. 2007- Professor of Philosophy, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. 2002-2007 Chair, Department of Philosophy, . 1999-2000 Chair, Department of Philosophy, City College of New York. 1993-2006 Associate Professor of Philosophy, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. 1987-1993 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hollins University.

BOOKS 1. Plato’s Exceptional Love, City, and Philosopher, London, Routledge, 2021. 2. The Philosopher’s New Clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion, London, Routledge, 2016. 3. Politics and Philosophy in Plato’s Menexenus: Education and Rhetoric, Myth and History (co-written with Mark Zelcer), London, Routledge, 2015. 4. Guidebook to Plato and the Republic, London, Routledge: first edition 1995, second edition 2004, third edition 2013. Translated into Portuguese (2003), Greek (2005), Chinese (2007), Persian (2013). 5. The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning with Nietzsche’s Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 6. Study Guide to accompany Critical Thinking by Brooke Noel Moore and Richard Parker. Mountain View CA, Mayfield Publishing; 5th edition 1998, 6th edition 2001, 7th edition 2004.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 1. “Republic” and “Menexenus,” entries in Gerald Press and Mateo Duque (eds.) The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato. London, Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming. 2. “The Lie: Becoming Dreams Being-Dreams of Becoming,” Classics@ (online publication) 2020. 3. “Ancient Conceptions of the Visual Arts,” in Noël Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Visual Art, forthcoming. 4. “Mimesis and Simulacrum in Aristotle and Plato,” in Krešimir Purgar (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies, forthcoming. 5. “Humility and Truth in Nietzsche’s Genealogy: The Humblebrag of the Lambs,” in Mark Alfano, Michael P. Lynch, and Alessandra Tanesini (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility. Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 84-96. 6. “If Philosophy were a Fashion Show – What Then? Beyond Good & Evil 223 and Like Passages,” in Eugenia Paulicelli et al. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (forthcoming). 7. “Spike Jonze’s Her: Love and the Science Fiction Film,” Journal of Comparative Literature and 43.2 (2020): 301-312. 8. “Hippocrates at Phaedrus 270c,” by Elizabeth Jelinek and Nickolas Pappas, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101.3 (2020): 409-430. 9. “Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film,” in Noël Carroll et al. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019, pp. 923-945. 10. “Tragedy’s Picture of Mourning,” Politeia 1 (2019): 2-16. 11. “Toward and from Philosophy,” in Heather L. Reid and Tony Leyh (eds.), Looking at Beauty: to kalon in Western Greece. Sioux City, Parnassos Press, 2019, pp. 161-172. Reprinted in Reid and Mark Ralkowski (eds.) Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece. Sioux City, Parnassos Press, 2019, pp. 293-304. Nickolas Pappas 2

12. “Home Schooling: Philosophy without Travel,” in Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.) Philosophy, Travel, and Place. London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, pp. 99-111. 13. “Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus,” in Harold Parker and Jan Maximilian Robitzsch (eds.) Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato’s Menexenus. Berlin, de Gruyter Press, 2018, 71-89. 14. “Crime and Punishment Rereading and Rewriting Plato’s Gorgias,” Journal Mundo Eslavo 16 (2017): 192-198. 15. “‘Philosophy that is Ancient’: Teaching Ancient Philosophy in Context,” APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 17.1 (fall 2017): 8-16. 16. “A Little Move toward Greek Philosophy: Reassessing the Statesman Myth,” in John Sallis (ed.) Plato’s Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2017, 85-106. 17. “Telling Good Love from Bad in Plato’s Phaedrus,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 30.1 (2017): 41-58. 18. “Anti-Fashion: If Not Fashion, then What?” in Giovanni Matteucci and Stefano Marino (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion. London, Bloomsbury, 2016, 73-89. 19. “Plato’s Aesthetics,” entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Electronic publication: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-aesthetics. Revised in 2016 and 2012 from original 2007 entry. 20. “Two Myths of Philosophy’s Beginnings,” Philosophical Inquiry: International Quarterly 40(3-4) (2016): 6-22. 21. “Women at the Gymnasium and Consent for the Republic’s City,” Diálogos 98 (2015): 27-54. 22. “Beauty in Classical Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,” entry in Michael Kelly (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd edition. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014. Revision of entry previously appearing in 1st edition, 1998. 23. “Nietzsche’s Apollo,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2014): 43-53. 24. “The Story that Philosophers Will Be Telling of the Sophist,” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 13 (2013): 339-352. 25. “Introduction” to papers co-edited on Plato’s Sophist, New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 13 (2013): 277-282. 26. “Plato’s Menexenus as a History that Falls into Patterns,” co-written with Mark Zelcer, Ancient Philosophy 33 (2013): 19-31. 27. “The Impiety of the Imitator in Republic 10,” Epoché 17 (2013): 219-232. 28. “Magic and Art in Vertigo,” Katalin Makkai (ed.) Essays on Vertigo, London, Routledge, 2012, 18-44. 29. “Aristotle,” in Berys Gaut and Dominic Lopes (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, 3rd edition. London, Routledge, 2012. Revision of entry previously in 2nd edition, 2005, and 1st edition, 2001. 30. “Republic” and “Menexenus,” entries in Gerald Press (ed.) The Continuum Companion to Plato. London, Continuum Press, 2012, 71-72 & 87-91. 31. “Plato on Poetry: Imitation or Inspiration?” Philosophy Compass 10 (2012): 1-10. Electronic publication. 32. “Autochthony in Plato’s Menexenus,” Philosophical Inquiry 34 (2011): 66-80. 33. Review essay, Catalin Partenie, Plato’s Myths, Philosophical Inquiry 34 (2011): 101-106. 34. “The Naked Truth of Anti-Fashion Philosophy,” in Ronald Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.) Fashion Statements. New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp. 143-158. 35. “A Philosopher’s Appreciation for Jean-Pierre Vernant (January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007),” The Nietzsche Circle 2008. Electronic publication: nietzschecircle.com/Vernant_pappasa.html 36. “Fashion Seen as Something Imitative and Foreign,” The British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (2008): 1-19. 37. “Aristotle’s Aesthetiquette,” in Ronald Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.) Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment. Albany, SUNY Press, 2006, pp. 8 – 17. 38. “Morality Gags,” The Monist 88 (2005): 52-71. 39. “The Eternal-Serpentine,” in Christa D. Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora (eds.), A Nietzschean Bestiary. Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, pp. 71-82. Nickolas Pappas 3

40. “Authorship and Authority,” in William Irwin (ed.) The Death and Resurrection of the Author? Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 317-32; revised from 1989 journal article. 41. “Philhellenism and Greek Philosophy,” The Philosophical Forum 32 (2001): 165-73. 42. “Mimêsis in Aristophanes and Plato,” Philosophical Inquiry 21 (1999): 61-78. 43. “Psychoanalysis and Film: The Question of the Interpreter,” in Robert Prince (ed.) The Death of Psychoanalysis. Northvale NJ, Aronson Press, 1999, pp. 305-320. 44. “Fancy Justice: Martha Nussbaum on the Political Value of the Novel,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78 (1997): 278-296. 45. “Failures of Marriage in Sea of Love,” in C. Freeland and T. Wartenberg (eds.) Philosophy and Film, London, Routledge, 1995, pp. 109-125. 46. “The Poetics’ Argument against Plato,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 30 (1992): 83-100. 47. “The Despair Ignorant of Being Despair” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 73 (1991): 281-96. 48. “Knowing and Saying that I Know,” Philosophy 66 (1991): 487-502. 49. “A Sea of Love Among Men,” Film Criticism 14 (1990): 14-26. 50. “Socrates’ Charitable Treatment of Poetry,” Philosophy and Literature 13 (1989): 248-61. 51. “Authorship and Authority,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (1989): 325-32. 52. “Plato’s Ion: The Problem of the Author,” Philosophy 64 (1989): 381-89.

BOOK REVIEWS 1. Marina Berzins McCoy, Image and Argument in Plato’s Republic, Review of Metaphysics 74.2 (December 2020): 397-398. 2. C. D. C. Reeve (tr.) The Physics of Aristotle, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 18.1 (fall 2018): 2-7. 3. Rick Benitez and Keping Wang (eds.), Reflections on Plato’s Poetics: Essays from Beijing, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76.3 (2018): 368-371. 4. Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter, Philosophical Forum 47.1 (2016): 39-45. 5. Anne Sheppard, Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Athens, Gnomon 88 (2016): 448-449. 6. Lorraine Smith Pangle, Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic , Classical Review 65.1 (2015): 47-49. 7. C. D. C. Reeve, Blindness and Reorientation: Problems in Plato’s Republic, Ancient Philosophy 34 (2014): 419-424. 8. Gerasimos Santas, Understanding Plato’s Republic, Ancient Philosophy 32 (2012): 185-190. 9. James I. Porter, The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2012): 323-326. 10. Andrea Nightingale and David Sedley (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality, Philosophical Inquiry. 11. Martin Puchner, The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy, Modern Drama 54 (2011): 257-60. 12. Mark L. McPherran (ed.), Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide, Notre Dame Book Review 2011. Electronic publication: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24707-plato-s-republic-a-critical-guide/ 13. Oleg V. Bychkov & Anne Sheppard (eds.), Greek and Roman Aesthetics, Philosophical Inquiry 34 (2011): 111-114. 14. Marcel Detienne, The Greeks and Us, Bryn Mawr Classics Review (2008). Electronic publication: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-09-45.html 15. Daniel Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life, Ancient Philosophy 28 (2008): 227-231. 16. Elizabeth Grosz, The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 31 (2006): 69-71. 17. Frances Oppel, Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman, American Book Review 27 (2006): 19. 18. Pierre Destrée and Nicholas D. Smith (eds.) Socrates’ Divine Sign: Religion, Practice, and Value in Socratic Philosophy; Notre Dame Book Review 2006. Electronic publication: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4321 Nickolas Pappas 4

19. David Roochnik, Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato’s “Republic,” The Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2004): 218-219. 20. C. D. C. Reeve (tr.) The Politics of Aristotle, A.P.A. Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 98 (1999): 170-172. 21. Amélie Rorty (ed.) Essays on Aristotle’s Poetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (1994) 370-72. 22. Adi Ophir, Plato’s Invisible Cities, Ancient Philosophy 13 (1993): 427-30. 23. Kimon Lycos, Plato on Justice and Power, The Philosophical Review 100 (1991): 515-17. 24. Alan Weiss, The Aesthetics of Excess, The Hollins Critic 27 (1990): 13-14.

COMMENTS AND OTHER SHORT PUBLICATIONS 1. “The Restlessness of Thought,” review of exhibition Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965- 2016 at the Museum of Modern Art, artcritical 2018. http://www.artcritical.com/2018/06/05/nickolas- pappas-on-adrian-piper/ 2. “The Right Amount of Fear,” review of exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC – 200 AD at the Onassis Cultural Center, artcritical 2017. http://www.artcritical.com/2017/06/18/nickolas-pappas-on-ancient-greek-art/ 3. “Interview with Nickolas Pappas,” 3am Magazine 2013. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/philosophy-and-aesthetics/ 4. “Commentary on Sallis,” in John Cleary and Gary Gurtler (eds.), Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, volume 20. Leiden, Brill, 2005, pp. 194-200. 5. “Temporality and Preservation: A Panel Discussion,” in Hafthor Yngvason (ed.) Conservation and Maintenance of Contemporary Public Art. London, Archetype Publications, 2002, pp. 36-47. 6. “Analytic Feminism: Replies to Hass and Golumbia,” in Emanuela Bianchi (ed.) Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy?, Chicago, Northwestern University Press, 1999, pp. 212-218. 7. “On Frede,” in John Cleary and William Wians (eds.) Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 12, Lenham MD, University Press of America, 1998, pp. 277-83.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 1. “Anti-Fashion as the Natural Truth.” F for Fashion, University of Bologna, February 2021. 2. “Sightings of the Soul.” Asia Chapter meeting of the International Plato Society, Seoul, Korea, November 2020. 3. “Reform and Tyranny in Plato.” A Night of Philosophy Paris. 4. Comment on Antiquities beyond Humanism, NYU, November 2019. 5. “The Deisidaimonia in Socratic Eudaimonia.” 31st International Conference of Philosophy, Athens, Greece, July 2019; (as “What was New about Socrates’ New Gods? A Philosopher’s Way of Being Superstitious”) A Night of Philosophy, New School University, October 2019. 6. “What Becomes of a Soul: Hope for a Philosophical City in the Myth of Er.” Invited address, Asia Chapter meeting of the International Plato Society, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2018; keynote address, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. Newport News, Virginia, October 2018; invited lecture, Vassar College, October 2019. 7. “The Opposite of Philosophy.” Wittgenstein Workshop, New School University, April 2019. 8. “Humility and Truth in Nietzsche’s Genealogy.” New York City Nietzsche Colloquium Series, Fordham University, March 2019. 9. “Aspasia’s History of Athens: Women’s Rhetoric and Women’s Political History.” Invited address, conference on Diversifying Ancient Greek Philosophy, Queens College, December 2018. 10. Comments on Cinzia Arruzza, A Wolf in the City. Panel, New School University, November 2018. 11. “Two Versions of Cosmopolitanism in Plato.” Invited address, 30th International Conference of Philosophy, Pythagorion, Samos, Greece, July 2018. 12. “Toward and from Philosophy.” Fonte Aretusa Siracusa, Sicily, June 2018. 13. “Congenital Love.” Taiwan National University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2017; State University of Milan, Milan, Italy, December 2016. Nickolas Pappas 5

14. “Images of Sweet Mourning: Tragedy on the Paradox of Tragedy.” Conference on Aesthetic Perception and Moral Sentiment, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2017. 15. “The Sight of Anti-Fashion.” University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, December 2016. 16. “Aristotle and Epictetus.” Dialogues on the Experience of War, , September 2016. 17. “Crime and Punishment Rereading and Rewriting Plato’s Gorgias.” International Dostoevsky Society, Granada, Spain, June 2016. 18. “Telling Good Love from Bad in Plato’s Phaedrus.” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Boston College, November 2015; III International Congress of Greek Philosophy, Lisbon, April 2016. 19. “History’s Teleology in Plato.” Conference on Teleology in Plato and Aristotle, University of Dayton, April 2015. 20. “Topics in Philosophy and Art.” Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, April 2015. 21. “The Movement toward Greek Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman.” Philosophy Workshop, New School University, October 2015; Workshop on Plato’s Statesman, Boston College, November 2014. 22. “The Natural History of Vision: Plato.” American Society for Aesthetics, November 2014. 23. “Thinking of Others and Thinking of what Plato Said about Homer.” Breaking Rules: A Conference Honoring the Work of Ted Cohen, Metropolitan State University of Denver, June 2014. 24. “Improvisatory Rhetoric in the Menexenus.” Conference on Plato and Rhetoric, Yokohama, Japan, April 2014; Penn Ancient Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, January 2014. 25. “Philosophy Begins in Wonder … and in the Ocean.” Wright State University, October 2013; Workshop on Plato’s Theaetetus, New York, November 2011. 26. “The Story Philosophers will be Telling of the Sophist,” Workshop on Plato’s Sophist, Seattle, November 2012. 27. “Art and Natural Change,” Reykjavik Art Museum, September 2012. 28. “The Impiety of the Imitator in Republic 10.” University of Iceland, September 2012; Ancient Philosophy Society, Sundance, Utah, April 2011; Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, New York, October 2010; Conference on Morality and Art in Ancient Philosophy, Louvain, Belgium, May 2010. 29. “Reply to Christopher Paone.” Ancient Philosophy Society, San Francisco, April 2012. 30. “Artistic Representation is the Worst Thing – Compared to What?” SUNY New Paltz, April 2010. 31. “Nietzsche’s Apollo,” North American Nietzsche Society, Pacific APA, San Francisco, March 2010. 32. “Country Music at Philosophy’s Edges,” IAPL, London, UK, June 2009. 33. “Menexenus as a History that falls into Patterns,” Ancient Philosophy Society, Baltimore, April 2009. 34. “Tragedy’s Picture of Mourning,” Conference on the Paradox of Negative Emotions, Louvain, Belgium, March 2009. 35. Panel, “Bringing Cavell Down to Date,” American Society for Aesthetics, November 2008. 36. Reply to Michael Szekeley, “Pushing the Popular,” American Society for Aesthetics, November 2007. 37. “Style Masquerade,” Nietzsche in New York, 2006. 38. “Nietzsche’s Skepticism: Knowledge of the Future and Future Knowledge,” Nietzsche in New York, April 2005; Conference: Thinking on the Boundaries, University of South Carolina, February 2005. 39. Reply to John Sallis, “The Flow of Physis,” Boston College, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, March 2004. 40. “Nietzsche and the Problem of ‘Evil,’” Temple University, Philadelphia, December 2002. 41. “Public Art and Nature,” Conference on the Conservation of Contemporary Public Art, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2001. 42. “Logos and Ergon in Pericles’ Funeral Speech and in Plato’s Menexenus,” State University of New York at Stony Brook, November 1999. 43. “The Nature of Technological Art,” University of Maine at Orono, October 1998. 44. “Teaching the Symposium,” Columbia University Humanities Faculty, October 1997. 45. “Psychology with Ethics in Republic IV,” Babson College, Wellesley MA, October 1997. 46. “Mimesis in Democracy: Aristophanes and Plato on Tragedy and Procedural Democracy,” City College Conference on Ancient Thought, April 1997. 47. “Inventing Imitation: What Plato Learned from Aristophanes,” Hollins College Classics Symposium, Roanoke VA, November 1996; CUNY Graduate Center, May 1995. Nickolas Pappas 6

48. Reply to Dorothea Frede, “Plato, Popper, and Historicism,” College of the Holy Cross, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, March 1996. 49. Reply to Scott, “Purging the Poetics,” Eastern meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Corning NY, March 1996. 50. Replies to David Golumbia and Marjorie Hass, “Analytic Feminism,” New School, October 1993. 51. Reply to Thompson, “Portraits of Socrates,” Virginia Philosophical Association, October 1992. 52. Reply to Gracyk, “Ontology of Rock Music,” American Society for Aesthetics, October 1992. 53. “The Poetics’ Argument against Plato,” Virginia Polytechnic Institute, October 1991. 54. Reply to Golden, “Truth about Myth in Plato,” American Society for Aesthetics, October 1990. 55. “Plato’s Ion: The Problem of the Author,” Virginia Philosophical Association, October 1987.

EDUCATION Harvard University. Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1987. Kenyon College. A.B. in Mathematics and Philosophy, 1981.

SERVICE TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY 2017 – present: Executive Officer, Program in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. 2021: Chair, search committee for CUNY Graduate Center Provost. 1997 – present: Supervisor, Ph. D. dissertations, CUNY Graduate Center: Mateo Duque In and Out of Character: Socratic Mimêsis (2019) Daniel Mailick, The Psychology of Plato’s Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account (2018) Mary Clare McKinley, Three Faces of Human Exceptionalism: Genius, Saint, Monster (2015) Tobyn DeMarco, The Metaphysics of Improvisation (2012) Rossen Ventzislavov, The Language of Philosophy (2010) Leonidas Bouritsas, A Paradox of Freedom (2005) Richard Crist, Unity and Variety in Painting (2001) Daniel Kaufman, Normative Criticism and the Objective Value of Artworks (1999) 2014 – 2016: Chair, CUNY Institutional Review Board; 2011-2014, vice-chair, CUNY IRB; 1999 – 2011: member, IRB for City College. 2011 – 2016: Coordinator of Qualifying Papers, Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. 1999 – 2007: Member, Executive Committee, Program in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. 2004 – 2007: Member, Committee on Course and Standing, The City College of New York. 2002 – 2004: Member, Admissions Committee, Program in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center. 2002 – 2003: Deputy Executive Officer of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION – JOURNAL AND BOOK REFEREE

JOURNALS American Political Science Review Ancient Philosophy Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Arethusa British Journal of Aesthetics British Journal for the History of Philosophy The Classical Journal Classical Philology History of Philosophy Quarterly The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism The Journal of the History of Philosophy The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Philosophical Quarterly Polis Nickolas Pappas 7

BOOK PUBLISHERS Acumen Publishing Bloomsbury Books Lexington Books Oxford University Press Palgrave MacMillan Routledge Rowman & Littlefield.