 | Michael Pakaluk, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDepartment of Philosophy Clark University Worcester, MA 01610-1477 508.793.7496 phone email: mpakaluk@clarku.edu |
| Professor Pakaluk (A.B. Harvard,1980; M. Litt. Edinburgh, 1982; Ph.D Harvard 1988) studied philosophy with W.V. Quine, John Rawls, Burton Dreben, Sarah Broadie, and Michael Waldstein. He taught at Clark University from 1988 to 2008. He is now associated with the Institute for the Psychological Sciences.
Current Research and TeachingMichael Pakaluk has recently completed Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction with Cambridge University Press (2005) in the series, Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts. The author of the chapter, "Aristotle's Ethics", in the Blackwell Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2005) and "Friendship" in the Blackwell Companion to Aristotle's Ethics (forthcoming), he is also at work on a 'synoptic' translation of the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics.Professor Pakaluk's interests in philosophy are wide-ranging. He has published extensively in the history of philosophy, including Plato, Aquinas, Hume, and Reid, as well as in political philosophy, where his concern has been to articulate what might be called an 'American public philosophy'. He also has research interests in philosophical logic and early analytic philosophy. In applied ethics, he recently co-authored Understanding Accounting Ethics (2005), with a leading forensic accountant, Mark Cheffers, CPA ABV.
Selected Papers"The Logical Sinew of Aristotle's Writing" (in progress)
"Are There Moral Absolutes in Aristotle's Ethics?" (in progress). "The Ultimate Final Argument" (in progress) "The Meaning of Aristotelian Magnanimity," in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2004. "Socratic Magnanimity in the Phaedo," in Ancient Philosophy 2004. "Degrees of Separation in the Phaedo," in Phronesis 2003. "A Defense of Scottish Commonsense," in Philosophical Quarterly 2002. "On an Alleged Contradiction in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2002. "Is the Common Good of Political Society Limited and Instrumental?" in Review of Metaphysics 2001.
BooksOther Selves: Philosophers on Friendship (Hackett 1991)
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics VIII and IX, Translation with Commentary (Clarendon Aristotle Series, Clarendon 1998) Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge 2005)
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