{"id":4,"date":"2023-02-22T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:43:28","slug":"chaire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaire!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mitchell Miller, until 2013 the Dexter Ferry Professor in Philosophy at Vassar College, is now emeritus.\u00a0 He works in the history of philosophy; in recent years he has concentrated on Plato and the presocratics, but he has long-term ongoing interests in late medieval philosophy, Descartes and Leibniz, and 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He has published two books on Plato, <em>Plato&#8217;s Parmenides: The Conversion of the Soul<\/em> (Princeton 1986, Penn State ppk 1991) and <em>The Philosopher in Plato&#8217;s Statesman (<\/em>Martinus Nijhoff 1980, reissued with &#8220;Dialectical Education and Unwritten Teachings in Plato&#8217;s <em>Statesman<\/em>,&#8221; Parmenides Publishing 2004), a number of essays on Plato, and studies of Hesiod, Parmenides, and Hegel. He has recently been at work on the <em>Philebus,<\/em>\u00a0the &#8220;so-called unwritten teachings&#8221; of Plato, and, as the Platonic provocation for this inquiry, the notion of &#8220;the longer way&#8221; (<em>Republic <\/em>435c-d and 504b-e)\u00a0to the dialectical study of the Good and a more &#8220;precise grasp&#8221; of the city, the soul, and the cosmos that, he argues, Plato projects as the yield of the &#8220;longer way&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Miller, until 2013 the Dexter Ferry Professor in Philosophy at Vassar College, is now emeritus.\u00a0 He works in the history of philosophy; in recent years he has concentrated on Plato and the presocratics, but he has long-term ongoing interests in late medieval philosophy, Descartes and Leibniz, and 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mitchellmiller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}