David H. Calhoun

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I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, where I have taught since fall 1989. My undergraduate work was done at Louisiana State University, and I received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. My dissertation, "Self-Love and Friendship in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics," was written under the supervision of the late Plato scholar and translator Reginald E. Allen.

Before teaching at Gonzaga, I taught part-time at Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois (now closed), and then for one year at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

My teaching and research interests are ancient philosophy (particularly Socratic method and the ethics of friendship), existentialism (Kierkegaard and Nietzsche), and philosophy of human nature. I'm currently working on a projects on topics in Plato's dialogues, the philosophy of biology, friendship and moral education, and Christianity and science.

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