Ronna C. Burger (born December 5, 1947) is an American philosopher and Professor of

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, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair, and Sizeler Professor of

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Tulane University The Tulane University of Louisiana (commonly referred to as Tulane University) is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it b ...

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She received her PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty and has been teaching at Tulane since 1980. Her research has been supported by the

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, the

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Earhart Foundation The Earhart Foundation was an American conservative private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship since its founding in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Richard Ware served as the Foundation's longtime president. Hi ...

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and

Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation The Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation aims to promote science. The foundation was established in 1958 on the initiative of entrepreneur Ernst von Siemens. The managing director was the philosopher Heinrich Meier until March 2022. In the summe ...

. She is the author of books and articles on

Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

and

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

, and her graduate seminars on those thinkers have often led to dissertations in

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. In recent years she has extended her studies to

Maimonides Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (, ) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (), was a Sephardic rabbi and Jewish philosophy, philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah schola ...

and the

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. '' Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics'' (Chicago, 2008) * ''The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth'' (Yale, 1984. Reprinted, St. Augustine's Press 1999) * '' Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing'' (Alabama, 1980) * ''The Eccentric Core: the Thought of Seth Benardete'' co-edited with Patrick Goodin (St. Augustine's Press, 2017) * ''The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete'', co-edited with Michael Davis (St. Augustine's Press, 2012) * ''Encounters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete'' (ed.) (Chicago, 2002) * ''The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy'' by Seth Benardete, co-edited with Michael Davis (University of Chicago Press, 2000)

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Ronna Burger at Tulane University
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