Curriculum Vitae Martin Black
88A Marion St., Apt. 2 Brookline, MA 02446 Phone: (617) 955-3910 Email: [email protected]
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Ancient Greek Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ancient Greek Language and Literature
AREAS OF COMPETENCE Early Modern Philosophy, Theoretical and Applied Ethics, Existentialism, Nietzsche
EDUCATION 2009 PhD in Philosophy, Boston University Dissertation Title: “Plato’s Depiction of the Socratic Turn in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium” First Reader: Stanley Rosen
2004 MA (Research) in Philosophy, Melbourne University Thesis Title: “On Politics and Philosophy: A Reading of Plato’s Apology of Socrates”
1998 BA (Honours) in Philosophy and Classics, Melbourne University
PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming: Rosen, Stanley, Essays in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 2 Vols., Edited with an Introduction by Martin Black (to be published by St. Augustine’s Press in November 2011)
“Plato’s Critique of Poetry in the Symposium,” in Plato’s Music, ed. Eugenio Benitez, A Special Issue of Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 19, no. 1 (Sydney: University of Sydney Printing: June 2009): 51-73.
“Is There a Crisis of Modernity?” in Human Ends and the Ends of Politics, Proceedings of the Junior Visiting Fellows Conference, edited with a Preface by Martin Black and Kirsten McKillop, Institute for Human Sciences/Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna (IHS/IWM: published on the web, http://www.iwm.at in February 2009)
“Self-Knowledge,” Traffic: An Interdisciplinary Journal, ed. Monica Dux, Issue 1 (University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, 2002) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses Taught with Independent Responsibility Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy of the Human Person PL 070, Boston College (Fall, 2011)
Lecturer, Political Theory GVT 276, Government Department, Suffolk University (Fall, 2011)
Lecturer, Elementary Ancient Greek A GR 101, Department of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University (Fall, 2011)
Lecturer, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy PHIL 210, Philosophy Department, Suffolk University (Spring, 2011)
Lecturer, Elementary Ancient Greek B GR 102, Department of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University (Spring, 2011)
Lecturer, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy PHIL 210, Philosophy Department, Suffolk University (Fall, 2010)
Lecturer, Elementary Ancient Greek A GR 101, Department of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University (Fall, 2010)
Instructor, Plato, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Winter School, July 2010
Instructor, History of Modern Philosophy PH 310, Philosophy Department, Boston University, (Spring, 2010)
Lecturer, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy PHIL 210, Philosophy Department, Suffolk University (Spring, 2010)
Lecturer, Elementary Ancient Greek B GR 102, Department of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University (Spring, 2010)
Instructor, Existentialism PH 248, Philosophy Department, Boston University, (Fall 2009)
Lecturer, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy PHIL 210, Philosophy Department, Suffolk University (Fall, 2009)
Lecturer, Elementary Ancient Greek A GR 101, Department of Humanities and Modern Languages, Suffolk University (Fall, 2009)
Instructor, Introduction to Ethics PH 150, Philosophy Department, Boston University (Summer I, 2009)
Lecturer, Intermediate Ancient Greek: Epic and Tragedy, GR 201, Suffolk University (Spring, 2009)
Instructor, Introduction to Ethics PH 150, Philosophy Department, Boston University, (Fall 2008)
Lecturer, Elementary Ancient Greek A and B GR 101 and 102, Suffolk University (Summer I and II 2008)
Instructor, Philosophy and the Good Life WR 150, Writing Center, Boston University, (Spring 2008)
Instructor, Introduction to Philosophy PH 100, Boston University Philosophy Department (Summer 2007, Semester II)
Lecturer, Intermediate Ancient Greek ANG 21/31INB and ANG 22/32INC, Centre for Hellenic Studies, La Trobe University (1st and 2nd Semester 2001)
Instructor, An Introduction to Classical Philosophy and the Ancient Greek Language, (Summer Course, Melbourne University (Summers of 1999, 2000, and 2001)
Courses Taught as a Teaching Fellow, Boston University Philosophy Department Ethics PH 150, Professor Klaus Brinkmann (Spring 2007)
Politics and Philosophy PH 155, Professor Stanley Rosen (Spring 2006)
Great Philosophers PH 110, Professor Fred Tauber (Fall 2005)
History of Ancient Philosophy PH 300, Professor Peter Diamandopoulos (Spring 2005)
Ethics PH 150, Professor Matthew Caswell (Fall 2004)
Courses Taught as a Tutor (equivalent to a TF), Melbourne University Philosophy Department Ideas of Utopia 161-052, Professor Katrine Keuneman (2nd Semester 2001)
Greek Philosophy 161-019, Professor Brian Scarlett (1st Semester 2001)
Moral Conflicts 161-101, Professor Brian Scarlett (1st Semester 2000)
Greek Philosophy 161-019, Professor Graeme Marshall (1st semester 1999)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Boston University Graduate Writing Fellowship (Spring, 2008)
Junior Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Human Sciences/Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna (Fall, 2007)
Travel Grant, Boston University Philosophy Department (Spring 2007)
Dissertation Fellowship, Boston University Philosophy Department (Fall 2006)
Teaching Fellowship, Boston University Philosophy Department (Fall 2004-Spring 2006; Spring 2007)
Earhart Fellowship (Fall 2002-Spring 2004)
Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend (1998-2000)
Laurie Prize for Highest Mark in a Combined Honours Degree (Philosophy and Classics), Melbourne University (1997)
Douglas Howard Exhibition in Intermediate Ancient Greek, Melbourne University (1997)
Dean’s List for Third Year Bachelor of Arts Course, Melbourne University (1996)
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS “The Socratic Turn and the Problem of Theory and Practice” delivered at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, November 2010
“The Paradox of Theory and Practice in Plato and Kant,” presented in the Philosophy Department, Suffolk University, November 2010
“Forms, Gods, and the Possibility of Philosophy: Parmenides 133a-135c and Plato’s Depiction of the Socratic Turn” delivered at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy annual conference, Fordham University, New York, October 2010
“The Dialectic of Plato’s Phaedo” and the “Introduction on the Question of Reading Plato” for the Plato Stream at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, Sydney, July 2010
“Agathon’s Poetic Ontology and Desire,” Paper delivered at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, November 2009
Commentator on Roslyn Weiss, “The Fifth Cardinal Virtue: Piety in the Republic,” and Vladimir Suchan, “Elements of Socratic Political Prudence: Revisiting Prometheus in Plato’s Protagoras,” delivered at the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, November 2009
“Plato’s Depiction of the Socratic Turn,” Paper delivered at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, October 2009
“The Socratic Turn in Plato,” Paper delivered at the Australasian Association of Philosophy annual conference, July 2009, Melbourne University, Australia
“Teleological concepts in Plato, Aristotle, and Darwin,” Paper delivered at the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology bi-annual conference, Queensland University, Australia, June, 2009
“Life’s Elusive End: Socrates on the Beautiful versus the Good (Plato’s Symposium 198a3-212c6),” Paper delivered to the Graduate Presentation Series, Boston University, March, 2008
“Is There a Crisis of Modernity?” Junior Visiting Fellows Conference, Institute for Human Sciences/Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, December, 2007
“The ‘Pathos of Distance’: The Philosophic Necessity of Aristocratic Politics in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil,” Friedrich Nietzsche Society International Conference, University of Leiden, March, 2007
“Theory and Practice in Bacon and Descartes,” Graduate Presentation Series, Boston University, October, 2006
“Teleology and Form in Plato and the Transition from Aristotle’s Rational Psyche to the Cartesian Mind,” Graduate Presentation Series, Boston University, November, 2005
“Self-Knowledge,” Melbourne University Philosophy Postgraduate Colloquium, March, 2002
“On Politicizing Philosophy: Plato’s Apology of Socrates,” Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, July, 2002
“Philosophy and the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Melbourne University Philosophy Postgraduate Colloquium, March, 2002
“How to Read a Classical Text, e.g., Plato’s Apology,” Melbourne University Philosophy Postgraduate Colloquium, August, 1999
“Plato and Aristotle on Women and Justice,” Melbourne University Philosophy Women’s Committee Series, March, 1998
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Advanced Ancient Greek; Intermediate Latin; Intermediate reading and Basic speaking knowledge of German
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Organizer of the Panel, “The Socratic Turn: Greek and Islamic Perspectives” for the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston, November 2010
Organizer and Chair of the Panel, “The Socratic Turn,” for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Conference, Fordham University, New York, October 2010
Organizer of the Stream on Plato, “The Deeds in the Speeches (Eu. 11c1),” at the 2010 Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, Sydney
Moderator, Metaphysical Society of America, 61st Annual Meeting, Boston University, March 5-6, 2010
Chair of the panel, “Darwin and Philosophy,” at the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology bi-annual conference, Queensland University, Australia, June, 2009
External Reviewer for Arche: A Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy at Boston University, Spring 2009.
Research Assistant for Professor Stanley Rosen, Summer 2004-present (In addition to minor research and administrative tasks, I have lectured to several of Professor Rosen’s classes when he was otherwise engaged, organized reading groups to be led by Professor Rosen during the summer, and I have edited two volumes of Professor Rosen’s papers to be published by St. Augustine’s Press.)
Employed by the Austrian College of the Arts and Sciences as a proof-reader for Professor Giampieri-Deutsch, November to January 2007.
Co-organizer of the Fall 2007 Junior Fellows conference of the Institute for Human Sciences/Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, and co-editor of the proceedings.
Founded and led several reading groups (At Melbourne University: Greek Philosophy Reading Group at Melbourne University 1999-2002; At Boston University: Plato’s Philebus, Fall 2002; Homer’s Iliad Fall 2002-Fall 2004; and Aristotle’s Metaphysics 2006; At Suffolk University: Homer’s Iliad, Spring 2010-Fall 2011; Homer’s Odyssey Fall 2010; Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Spring 2011).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Philosophical Association Ancient Philosophy Society International Plato Society Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Northeastern Political Science Association REFEREES Professor Stanley Rosen Professor David Roochnik Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Boston University Boston University
Professor Greg Fried Professor Stephanie Nelson Chair Department of Classics Department of Philosophy Boston University Suffolk University
Professor George Kalogeris Director of the Classics Minor Department of English Suffolk University