Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: Rachel Singpurwalla

Rachel Singpurwalla (Ph.D. Colorado) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Her primary research interests are in ancient philosophy, value theory, and moral psychology. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the nature and role of unity in the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of Plato's Republic. She is also writing a series of papers on Platonic moral psychology with the ultimate aim of showing that Plato's conception provides an attractive alternative to contemporary views. She will be a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in '07-'08.

E-mail: rgks@umd.edu

Personal Website: http://rachel.singpurwalla.googlepages.com/singpurwalla

Representative Publications

Plato's Republic: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, under contract).

"Soul Division in Republic X," in Plato and the Poets, edited by Pierre Destrée and Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).

"Moral Psychology in the Republic," Blackwell Philosophy Compass, forthcoming.

"Reasoning with the Irrational: Moral Psychology in the Protagoras," Ancient Philosophy, 26 (2006), 243-258.

"Are There Two Theories of Goodness in Plato's Republic?" Apeiron, 39 (2006), 319-329.

"Plato's Defense of Justice," in The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, edited by Gerasimos Santas, (Blackwell, 2005), 263-282.