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Tushar Irani

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Russell House, 13 LL
860-685-4462

Associate Professor of Letters

Boger Hall, 321
860-685-4462

Associate Professor, Education Studies

tirani@wesleyan.edu

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BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University

Tushar Irani

Tushar Irani's research focuses on Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is the author of Plato on the Value of Philosophy: The Art of Argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of the recent volume of essays, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Historical, Contemporary, and Pedagogical Perspectives (Wiley, 2020). Irani holds a joint appointment at Wesleyan in the Department of Philosophy and the College of Letters. Beginning in the spring of 2021, he will be serving as Director of the College of Letters. In addition to his work on Plato, he has interests in questions of philosophical method, philosophy as a way of life, the history and practice of rhetoric, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, and the history of ethics (especially virtue ethics). For his professional website, see here.

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Office Hours

Spring 2021: Wednesday, 10:00-11:00am and by appointment via Zoom at https://wesleyan.zoom.us/my/tushar.irani.

Courses

Spring 2024
PHIL 196 - 01
Mellon Mays Spring Seminar

PHIL 207F - 01
Live Like a Philosopher (FYS)

PHIL 350 - 01
Radical Self-Care

Fall 2024
PHIL 250 - 01
Thinking By Analogy