Rachana Kamtekar (PhD, University of Chicago 1995) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She specializes in Ancient Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, and the History of Ethics. During the 2004-05 academic year she is a Laurance S. Rockefeller fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.

PUBLICATIONS
‘Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character,’ Ethics, vol. 114, no. 3 (April 2004)
‘What’s the Good of Agreeing?: Homonoia in Platonic Politics,’ Oxford Studies in
Ancient Philosophy vol. XXVI (Summer 2004)
‘Distinction without a Difference? Plato on 'Genos' vs. 'Race',’ Traditional Philosophers on Race (Blackwell, 2002)
‘Social Justice and Happiness in the Republic: Plato’s Two Principles,’ History of Political Thought vol. 22, 2001
‘Imperfect Virtue,’ Ancient Philosophy 18, Fall 1998.
‘Aidôs in Epictetus,’ Classical Philology 93, April 1998.
‘Philosophical Rule from the Republic to the Laws,’ Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. 13, 1997.

‘Character’, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner, forthcoming 2005)
‘Why life-saving drugs should be public goods’, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. I No. 3 (July-September 2004)
Review of Sedley, Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom, Ancient Philosophy vol. 24 no. 1 (Spring 2004)
Review of Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, and Sex and Social Justice, Philosophical Review, April 2002
Review of Koziak, Retrieving Political Emotion, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (2002)
Review of Annas, Platonic Ethics Old and New, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 1999.
Review of Hadot, The Inner Citadel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, November 1998.

WORK IN PROGRESS
‘The Friendship of Politics: Callicles, Democratic Politics, and Rhetorical Education in Plato’s Gorgias’ (under review)
‘Socrates and the Attribution of Conative Attitudes’ (in draft)
‘Desire and Education in Plato’s Republic’ (in draft)
‘Speaking with the same voice as reason' (in draft)
‘Socratic politics’
The Blackwell Companion to Socrates (as co-editor, with Sara Rappe)
Critical Essays on Plato’s Euthyphro, Crito, and Apology (edited volume; Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2004)


Contact Professor Kamtekar: kamtekar@email.arizona.edu