Rate My Professor John Partridge

Partridge has an extensive record of publications in scholarly journals and edited volumes. Notable works include “Affinity, Worth, and Fecundity: On Susan Wolf’s Advice for Living a Meaningful Life,” Journal of Philosophy of Life 10/1 (2020); “Feminist Encounters with Plato: Appropriation, Disinvestment, and Constructive Complicity,” Platonic Investigations 9/2 (2018); Commentary on Zina Giannopoulou, “Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus and Alcibiades I,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 30 (2015); “Socrates, Rationality, and the Daimonion,” Ancient Philosophy 28/2 (2008); “Plato’s Cave and The Matrix,” in Philosophers Explore the Matrix, ed. Christopher Grau (Oxford, 2005); and “Socratic Dialectic and the Art of Love: on Phaedrus 276e-277a,” Ancient Philosophy 19 (1999). In 2011, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions grant of $25,000 to develop his first-year seminar. He has supervised senior honors theses from 2003 to 2022 across departments including Philosophy, Physics, English, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Art History; directed independent studies; and collaborated on faculty-student research projects, such as the Mars Faculty/Student Research Fellowship in 2009 with R. Carry Osborne ’11 on the feminist history of ancient philosophy and a Faculty-Student Research Grant in 2022 with Erin Bowes ’23 and Gia Orsino ’23 on meaning in life.