Allison Piñeros Glasscock
Assistant Professor Philosophy- Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., Western Oregon University
- Specializations
Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Ethics and Epistemology
- Biography
I specialize in ancient philosophy and am particularly interested in issues that lie at the intersection of ancient ethics and epistemology. My research investigates ancient accounts of ethical development and the relationship between virtue and knowledge. My current projects offer a novel explanation of why ancient philosophers think knowledge is central to being good and shed new light on how these figures conceptualized the process of developing other-oriented ethical concern. My main focus is on the treatment of these issues in the dialogues of Plato and in the Stoics.
Other philosophical interests include contemporary philosophy of education, ethics, and early modern philosophy.
- Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- (forthcoming 2025) “Loving Learning: Plato’s philosophical dogs and the education of the guardians”, in Rereading Plato’s Republic, eds. Mary Margaret McCabe and Simon Trépanier, Edinburgh University Press.
- (2023) “Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca’s De beneficiis on how to expand one’s sphere of ethical concern”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 62: 261-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885180.003.0007
- (2021) “Owning Virtue: The Meno on Virtue, Knowledge, and True Opinion”, Phronesis 66 (3): 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685284-BJA10043
- (2020) “The Discipline of Virtue: Knowledge and the Unity of the Virtues in the Protagoras”, Ancient Philosophy 40 (1): 41–65. https://doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil20204013
Extended Critical Reviews
- (online first: 2024) [Approximately 4,300 words.] Plato’s Phaedo: Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life by David Ebrey, Cambridge: CUP, 2023 in Mind. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzae002
Short Book Reviews
- (2022) [Approximately 800 words.] Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy v.4 by Myles Burnyeat, Cambridge: CUP, 2022, in Review of Metaphysics 76 (2): 345-346. https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2022.0069