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Tushar Abaad Irani

Professor, Education Studies

Philosophy, Russell House 350 High Street
860-685-4462

Professor of Letters

Philosophy, Russell House 350 High Street
860-685-4462

Faculty Director, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Philosophy, Russell House 350 High Street
860-685-4462

Professor of Philosophy

Philosophy, Russell House 350 High Street
860-685-4462

tirani@wesleyan.edu

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BA Colgate University
PHD Northwestern University

Tushar Abaad 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

Fall 2024
PHIL 250 - 01
Thinking By Analogy