Rachel Barney
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Rachel Barney | |
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| Born | 14 September 1966 |
| Education | |
| Education | Princeton University (PhD) |
| Thesis | A Reading of Plato's Cratylus (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Madison Cooper |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Main interests | ancient philosophy |
| Website | http://individual.utoronto.ca/rbarney/Home.html |
Rachel Barney (born 14 September 1966) is a Canadian philosopher and Professor and Acting Associate Chair at the department of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is known for her works on ancient philosophy.[1][2][3]
Barney got her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD at Princeton.[4] She returned back to the University of Toronto after teaching at the University of Chicago, the University of Ottawa, and Harvard.[4] Barney did research that ranged from the early sophists to the late Neoplatonic commentator Simplicius; nevertheless, most of her research focused on Plato. Her most prominent areas of research are ethics, psychology, philosophical methods, and epistemology.[4]
In the 2011 Canadian federal election, Barney was Green Party candidate in Trinity—Spadina, placing fourth.[5][6]
