About the Professor

Professor David O'Connor Associate Professor Department of Philosophy University of Notre Dame Areas of Interest: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy and Literature.

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David O'Connor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Associate Professor of Classics. His main teaching and research interests are in ancient philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Professor O'Connor has co-edited (with Carnes Lord) Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science (1991) and has recently edited and introduced The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translation (2002). His essay, "Rewriting the Poets in Plato's Characters," appears in The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic (ed. G.R.F. Ferrari). He is currently working on the relationship between skepticism and Platonism in Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Butler Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. Professor O'Connor regularly teaches in the undergraduate program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), and in the Philosophy and Literature program.