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| Name: | Dr. Jurgis (George) Brakas |
| Title: | Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies |
| Office Location: | Fontaine 221 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2262 |
| Email: | Jurgis.Brakas@Marist.edu |
| Personal Web Page: | http://jbrakas.wordpress.com/ |
| Degrees Held: | Columbia University, Ph.D. Princeton University, A.B. |
| Bio: | See http://jbrakas.wordpress.com/ |
| Interests: | Ballet, film, classical concerts; fine dining; gardening; running and workouts at the gym. |
| Awards & Honors: | See http://jbrakas.wordpress.com/ |
| Publications: | "The Existence of Forms: The Argument from the Possibility of Knowledge," in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, editors. Wiley-Blackwell, September 2011. "Plato, Aristotle, and The Third Man," in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, editors. Wiley-Blackwell, September 2011. "Aristotle's Argument that Goods are Irreducible," in Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, editors. Wiley-Blackwell, September 2011. "Aristotle's 'Is Said in Many Ways' and Its Relationship to His Homonyms," The Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 49, no. 2 (April 2011). "Aristotle on the Irreducible Senses of the Good," Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse / Logical Analysis and the History of Philosophy, VI (2003): 23-73. "MacDonald, Aristotle, and the Good," Journal of Neoplatonic Studies VI, #2 (1998): 77-114. "Ancient Greek Philosophy," Institute for Objectivist Studies, Foundations Series #7 (1994): 1-4. Aristotle's Concept of the Universal , Hildesheim & New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1988. |
| Research Interests: | Aristotle, ancient Greek philosophy; Rand; logic and philosophy of logic; ethics and meta-ethics. |
| Conferences & Workshops: | See http://jbrakas.wordpress.com/ |
| Affiliations: | American Philosophical Association Canadian Philosophical Association Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy The Aristotelian Society Ayn Rand Society |
| Presentations: | See http://jbrakas.wordpress.com/ |
| Miscellaneous: | Another website with information about me: Academia.edu |