Tushar Irani
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Russell House, 13 LL860-685-4462
Associate Professor of Letters
Boger Hall, 321860-685-4462
Associate Professor, Education Studies
BA Colgate UniversityPHD 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.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Spring 2021: Wednesday, 10:00-11:00am and by appointment via Zoom at https://wesleyan.zoom.us/my/tushar.irani.
Courses
Fall 2023
COL 241 - 01
Sophomore Colloquium 1
PHIL 152 - 01
Living Good Life: Greek Lab
PHIL 195 - 01
Mellon Mays Fall Seminar
PHIL 207Q - 01
Live Like a Philosopher
PHIL 210 - 03
Living a Good Life
PHIL 210 - 04
Living a Good Life
Spring 2024
PHIL 196 - 01
Mellon Mays Spring Seminar
PHIL 201 - 01
Philosophical Classics I
PHIL 207 - 01
Live Like a Philosopher
PHIL 350 - 01
Radical Self-Care