Paul Woodruff

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Paul Woodruff is a classicist, professor, and dean at the University of Texas at Austin, where he once chaired the department of philosophy and has more recently held the Hayden Head Regents Chair as director of Plan II Honors program, which he resigned in 2006 after 15 years of service. September 21 2006, President Powers named Dr. Woodruff the inaugural dean of undergraduate studies. A beloved professor, he often teaches courses outside his Ancient Greek Philosophy specialty, including literature courses and specialty seminars, often for the Plan II program.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Awards and Recognition
- 3.1 Awards
- 3.2 Academic Positions
4 External links / Sources

[edit] Biography

Born in New Jersey (though raised in western Pennsylvania), Woodruff attended Princeton University, where he completed a major in Classics in 1965. Inspired by the Socratic beliefs on rule of law, he served in the United States Army in the conflict in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971, during which time he attained the rank of Captain. His studies later took him to Merton College of Oxford University, where he completed a Bachelor's Degree in Literae Humaniores. Returning to the United States, he once again attended Princeton University, where he completed his doctorate in Philosophy, studying under Gregory Vlastos.

In the same year, he joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has remained to this day.

[edit] Works

[edit] Translations

Plato: Two Comic Dialogues (Ion and Hippias Major) Hackett (1983)
Plato: Symposium (with Alexander Nehamas) Hackett (1989)
Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature Hackett (1993)
Plato: Phaedrus (with Alexander Nehamas) Hackett (1995)
Euripides Bacchae Hackett (1998)
Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus (with Peter Meineck) Hackett (2000)
Sophocles: Antigone Hackett (2001)
Sophocles: Theban Plays, with Introductions by Paul Woodruff (with Peter Meineck) Hackett (2003)

[edit] Books

Plato: Hippias Major Hackett (1982) and Blackwell's (1982)
Reverence; Renewing a Forgotten Virtue Oxford University Press (2001)
First Democracy; The Challenge of an Ancient Idea Oxford University Press (2005)

[edit] As Editor

Facing Evil; Light at the Core of Darkness. (with Harry A. Wilmer) Open Court Press (1988)
Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists (with Michael Gagarin) Cambridge University Press (1995)
Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy (edited, with Nicholas D. Smith) Oxford University Press (2000)