Scott R. Hemmenway
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Eureka College
Eureka, IL 61530
(309) 467-6333
[email protected]
Born March 15, 1956; Married
206 South Myers Street
Eureka, IL 61530
(309) 467-4848
Education
B.A.
(Philosophy), Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1978
M.A.
(Philosophy, Ancient Greek), Penn State University, 1985
Master’s Thesis: Two Socratic Images of the Philosopher
(Supervisor: Professor Stanley H. Rosen)
Ph.D. (Philosophy, Ancient Greek), Penn State University, 1989
Dissertation: Platonic Myth and the Archeology of the Polis
(Supervisors: Professors Stanley H. Rosen and David R. Lachterman)
AOS: Ancient Philosophy (Plato)
AOC: History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Languages: Ancient Greek, German
Awards and Fellowships
Helen Cleaver Distinguished Teaching Award, Eureka College, 2007-08
Visiting Scholar, Boston University Department of Philosophy, Spring 1998
Study Grant for College and University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities,
“Plato’s Timaeus and Critias: Cosmology as an Inquiry into the Human Soul,” 1994
Summer Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, “Plato and the Polis,” Duke
University, June-July 1994
Richard M. Weaver Fellowship, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1987-88
Publications
“The Techne-Analogy in Socrates’ Healthy City: Justice and the Craftsman in the Republic.” Ancient
Philosophy 19 (2000): 267-284.
“Sophistry Exposed: Socrates on the Unity of Virtue in the Protagoras.” Ancient Philosophy 16
(1996): 1-23.
“Pedagogy in the Myth of Plato’s Statesman: Body and Soul in Relation to Philosophy and
Politics.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 11 (July 1994): 253-268.
“Philosophical Apology in the Theaetetus.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 17 (Spring
1990): 323-346.
Publications (continued)
Review of Leo Strauss on Plato’s Symposium and Plato’s “Symposium,” translated by Seth Benardete,
with commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete. International Journal of the Classical
Tradition 10 (2003/4): 123-125.
Review of The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates’ Philosophical Trial, by Jacob Howland.
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 28 (Winter 2000-2001): 165-171.
Review of The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus, by Seth Benardete.
Review of Metaphysics 45 (June 1992): 842-884.
Review of The Theaetetus of Plato, by Myles Burnyeat. Review of Metaphysics 45 (Dec. 1991): 394-396.
Review of The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. by Thomas Pangle.
Review of Metaphysics 42 (December 1988): 398-400.
Review of Plato’s Socratic Conversations: Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues, by Michael C. Stokes.
Review of Metaphysics 41 (June 1988): 856-858.
Papers Presented
“Timaeus’ Speech as a Prologue to Plato’s Myth of Atlantis: A Dramatic Approach to Timaeus
as Philosopher,” Ancient Philosophy Society Annual Meeting, Notre Dame, April 2013
“The Myth of the Flood in Plato’s Laws: Philosophical Music and Intoxicant,” Philosophy and
Religious Studies Department, Bradley University, November, 2011 (also to the Society
for Greek Political Thought, Northeast Political Science Meeting, Boston 2004 and an
earlier draft at the Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago, April 2001)
“What is a Liberal Arts Education?: A Platonic Perspective.” Dean’s Lecture, Eureka College,
March 2009
“A Philosopher’s Search for Lost Atlantis.” Dean’s Lecture, Eureka College, November 1999
“The Techne-Analogy in Socrates’ Healthy City: The Justice of the Craftsman in the Republic,”
the Graduate Philosophy Club, American University, March 1998 (also an earlier draft to
the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton University SUNY, October
1993)
“Timaeus’ Speech as Prologue to the Myth of Atlantis: Physics and Political Philosophy,”
Society for Greek Political Thought, American Political Science Meeting, San Francisco,
September 1996
“Critias’s Myth of Atlantis: An Incomplete Praise of the Best City and its Citizens,” Society for
Greek Political Thought, American Political Science Meeting, Chicago, September 1995
“The Dramatic Context of Plato’s Timaeus: A Telling of the Myth of Atlantis,” Faculty
Colloquium, Eureka College, December 1994
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Papers Presented (continued)
“The Pedagogy of the Eleatic Stranger’s Myth,” International Plato Society, University of Bristol,
England, August 1992; and to the Society for Greek Political Thought, American
Political Science Meeting, Chicago, September 1992
“The Myth in Plato’s Statesman,” Faculty Colloquium, Eureka College, December 1991
“Socrates’ Arguments for the Unity of the Virtues: Exposing Sophistry in the Protagoras,” Society
for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Baruch College, October 1991
“Myths of Political Origins in Plato’s Dialogues,” Dean’s Lecture, Eureka College, November
1990
“Apology in Plato’s Theaetetus,” Graduate Colloquium, Penn State University, Spring 1987
Other Professional Activities
Manuscript Referee for Parmenides Publishing, The Stranger’s Knowledge: Philosophy, Knowledge, and
Law in Plato’s Statesman, by Xavier Márquez, 2011
Manuscript Referee for Cambridge University Press, Knowledge and Politics in Plato’s Theaetetus, by
Paul Stern, 2006
Manuscript Referee for Yale University Press, Plato’s Cleitophon, by Mark Kremer, 2001
Paper referee for Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, “Authority and Epagoge in
Plato’s Charmides,” 2012
Paper referee for The Internet Journal of the International Plato Society, “The Missing Speech and the
Absent Fourth: Reader-Response and Plato’s Timaeus-Critias,” 2013
Paper referee for Ancient Philosophy:
“A Pre-Socratic Philosopher Behind the Phaedrus: Empedocles,” 1991
“Philosophy as Performed in Plato’s Theaetetus,” 1993
“The Protagoras: A Dialogical Reading of the Personified Antilogy,” 1996
“The Absurdity of Akrasia in Plato’s Protagoras,” 1997
“Protagoras and Socrates on Courage and Pleasure: Protagoras 349 ad finem,” 1999
“The Rhetorical Motifs of Plato’s Protagoras,” 2003
“The Injustice of Callicles and the Limits of Socrates’ Ability to Educate a Young
Politician,” 2005
“Teachers of Virtue,” 2007
“A City Fit for Business: Economic Justice in the Republic’s Healthy City,” 2008
Paper referee for Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought
“Of Fireman, Sophists, and Hunter-Philosophers: Citizenship and Courage in Plato’s
Laches,” 2006
“Why Plato Wrote Epinomis: Leonardo Tarán and the Thirteenth Book of Plato’s Laws,”
2010
Paper referee for Philosophy and Rhetoric, “Socrates’ Trial and Conviction of the Jurors in Plato’s
Apology,” 1998
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Other Professional Activities (continued)
Commentator on “The Inseparably Different Achitectonics of Hegel and Derrida,” by William
Wright, Eureka Faculty Colloquium, December, 2012
Commentator on “Falsehood in Words: Truth, Freedom, and Indirection in Plato and
Kierkegaard” by Christopher Dustin (College of the Holy Cross), and “Socrates’ Silence
in Plato’s Cleitophon” by Alan Pichanick (Villanova University), Northeastern Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, November 2011
Participant in “Herodotus’ Histories as Literature,” Center for Hellenic Studies, Washinton, D.C.,
August 2010
Invited participant in the colloquium, “Autonomy and Entanglement in the Odyssey of Homer,”
Liberty Fund, Hermosa Beach, CA, May 2009
Commentator on “Socrates and the True Political Art: An Interpretation of Gorgias 521d” in a
panel “The Political Art in Plato” sponsored by the Society for the History of Political
Philosophy, Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Baltimore, Dec. 2007
Discussant on the panel, “Eros, Tyranny, and Tragedy in Plato and Xenophon,” sponsored by
the Society for Greek Political Thought, Southern Political Science Association, New
Orleans, January 2007
Commentator on “Politics and Philosophy in Plato’s Timaeus,” by Jacob Howland (University of
Tulsa), Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, January 2006
Discussant on the panel, “Plato on Justice,” sponsored by the Society for Greek Political
Thought, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2003
Discussant on the panel, “Platonic Political Philosophy,” sponsored by the Society for Greek
Political Thought, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2002
Commentator on “The Role of Stories in Platonic Psychology: Republic 8 & 9,” by David
Roochnik (Boston University), The Ancient Philosophy Society, First Independent
Meeting, Villanova University, April 2001
Respondent to “Are Epicureans ‘Philosophers’: The Priority of the True and the Good” by
Gregory Clark (North Park College), Annual Meeting of the Illinois Philosophical
Association, Illinois State University, November 1997
Invited participant in the colloquium, “Freedom and Responsibility in Plato’s Trilogy,” Liberty
Fund, Bloomington, MN, May 1997
Chair of the panel, “The Cosmic Politics of Plato’s Timaeus,” sponsored by the Society for Greek
Political Thought, American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco,
September 1996
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Other Professional Activities (continued)
Discussant on the panel, “Platonic Political Philosophy,” sponsored by the Society for Greek
Political Thought, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 1995
Commentator on “Touchstone of Sacred Rage: The Image of Socrates in Symposium, Theaetetus,
and Sophist ” by James Goetsch (Emory University), Mid-South Philosophy Conference,
Memphis State University, February 1993
Chair of a workshop session at Third Symposium Platonicum, International Plato Society,
University of Bristol, England, August 1992
Member of International Plato Society, 1991Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 1991Society for Greek Political Thought, 1991Illinois Philosophical Association, 1993Ancient Philosophy Society, 2001American Philosophical Association, 1987Midwest Political Science Association, 2001Southern Political Science Association, 2006American Political Science Association, 1992-
Academic Positions Held
Chair of the Humanities Division, Eureka College, 2007-12
Director of the Honors Program, Eureka College, 1999-08
Professor of Philosophy, Eureka College, 1999Associate Professor of Philosophy, Eureka College, 1994-99
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eureka College, 1989-94
Instructor of Philosophy, Ohio Northern University, 1988-89
Part-time Graduate Instructor, Penn State University, 1984-87
Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, 1979-80, 1982-83
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