Education
Ph.D., Boston College
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Research Interests
- Presocratic philosophy
- The role of myth in Plato's dialogues
- Comparative Philosophy (Ancient Greece and India)
- A variety of ethical issues
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Teaching Interests
- Ancient Philosophy
- Ethics
- Great Books Seminars
- Eastern Philosophy
- Contemporary Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Language
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Courses Taught
- 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
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Selected Publications
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.
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Forthcoming publications or works in progress
In progress: “Myths of Self-Transformation in Plato’s Republic”
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Other professional activities or interests
Executive Director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College
For more information about the Center, visit www.anselm.edu/ethics
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Personal interests or activities
I am a student of yoga, and an avid chess player, skier, and fan of professional football and soccer (the real football).