• Presocratic philosophy
• The role of myth in Plato's dialogues
• Comparative Philosophy (Ancient Greece and India)
• A variety of ethical issues

• Ancient Philosophy
• Ethics
• Great Books Seminars
• Eastern Philosophy
• Contemporary Phenomenology
• Philosophy of Language

• Human Nature Seminar (PH 105)
• Ethics Seminar (PH 107)
• Philosophy Seminar: Philosophies of India
• Philosophy Seminar: Greece and India
• Ancient Philosophy (PH 211)
• GBS I: The Ancient World (PH 271)
• Paris-New York between the Wars
• Ethics: Why be moral? Why be good?
• Philosophy Seminar: Aristotle
• Philosophy Seminar: Heidegger

2019    Max J. Latona, “Commentary on Schindler,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Vol. XXXIV, edited by Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., and Daniel P. Maher (Boston: Brill, 2019) 109-117.
 

2013    Crowe, Frederick E., and Max J. Latona. "Intuition." New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, edited by Robert L. Fastiggi, vol. 2 (New York: Gale, 2013) pp. 799-804.
 

2011    Max J. Latona, “Remembering Ancient Truths: The Four Roots of Plato’s Recollection,” Who are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, and J. Scott Lee (New York: University Press of America, 2011) 211-17.
 

2008    Max J. Latona, “Reining in the Passions: the Allegorical Interpretation of Parmenides B Fr. 1,” American Journal of Philology 129.2 (2008) 199-230.
 

2004    Max J. Latona, "New Technologies, Old Distinctions: What's Wrong with Cloning," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 (2004) 276-88. (Essay merited the 2004 American Catholic Philosophical Association Young Scholar Award.)
 

2004    Max J. Latona, "The Tale is Not My Own: Myth and Recollection in Plato," Apeiron: a Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 37.2 (2004), 181-210.
 

2001    Max J. Latona, "Selfhood and Agency in Ricoeur and Aristotle," Philosophy Today 45.2 (2001), 107-20.

In progress: “Myths of Self-Transformation in Plato’s Republic”

Executive Director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College

For more information about the Center, visit www.anselm.edu/ethics

I am a student of yoga, and an avid chess player, skier, and fan of professional football and soccer (the real football).