Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane is a full professor of politics at Princeton University,[1] a position she has held since 2009.[2] Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow[2] of King's College, Cambridge and Associate Director of their Centre for History and Economics. She was a lecturer at Cambridge from 1994 to 2009.[2]

Academic career

She graduated from Harvard University 'summa cum laude' with a degree in Social Studies. As a Marshall, Truman, and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Lane went on to earn an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge.

Publications

Books
  • Plato’s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind. Duckworth, 2001. Reviewed in
    • Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews,
    • Heythrop Journal,
    • Mind,
    • Times Literary Supplement,
    • Greece and Rome,
    • Philosophy in Review,
    • Phronesis,
    • Prudentia,
    • Review of Politics,
  • Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed in
    • Polis
    • Athenaeum
    • Archives de Philosophie,
    • Classical Review,
    • Classical World
    • Ethicsw
    • Greece and Rome
    • Heythrop Journal
    • Journal of the History of Philosophy,
    • Review of Metaphysics
    • Phronesis.
  • Greek and Roman Political Ideas (Pelican Books, 2014) ISBN 978-0141976150.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

(selected)

  • "The evolution of eironeia in classical Greek texts: why Socratic eironeia is not Socratic irony", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2006) 49–83.
  • "Argument and Agreement in Plato’s Crito", History of Political Thought 19:3 (1998) 313–330.
  • "The utopianism of Hamilton’s state of needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politics", South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (2006) 207–213.
  • "Why History of Ideas At All?", History of European Ideas 28:1–2 (2002) 33–41.
  • "States of Nature, Epistemic and Political", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1998–1999) 1–24.
  • "Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?", History of Philosophy Quarterly 16:2 (April 1999) 119-42

Honours
gollark: You can't objectively have a "should" without an "in order to".
gollark: > this is how everyone's mindset should look like for building a better society.This is also subjective.
gollark: > but I don't care about human rights of people who don't care about human rights of other peopleGreat, so you picked that *subjective* judgement, okay.
gollark: Other primates are pretty social and whatnot, even some birds have tool use, I've heard that the main advantage we has is just good transfer learning capability.
gollark: Many animals can do many of the things human can.

References
  1. "Professor Melissa Lane". 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  2. Curriculum Vitae: Melissa Lane, July 2013, retrieved 12 May 2014
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