Contact Information Department of Philosophy Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 (408)554-4846 (FAX) (408)551-1839 slabarge@scu.edu Employment Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Scott LaBarge (current as of 7/2012) Associate Professor, Depts. of Philosophy (2/3) and Classics (1/3), Santa Clara University, 2000- present (awarded tenure 4/06) Education Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Arizona, August 2000. Dissertation: The Legacy of the Meno Paradox: Plato and Aristotle on Learning. Director: Julia Annas. M.A., Classics, University of Arizona, December 1999. Thesis: Two for the Price of One: Aristotle on Simultaneous Learning. Director: Frank Romer. Comprehensive Exams in German, Greek Translation, Latin Translation, Greek History, Roman History, Greek Art and Architecture, Roman Art and Architecture, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and a Special Author and Field (Ciceros Ethical Works) Honors B.A., Philosophy, University of Delaware, May 1994, Summa cum Laude. Thesis: Ancient Ethics in a Modern Setting: A Defense of Aristotelian Eudaimonism. Director, David L. Norton. B.A., Classics, University of Delaware, May 1994, Summa cum Laude. Areas of Study Area of Specialization: Ancient Philosophy (esp. ethics and epistemology in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools) Areas of Concentration: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics
Honors and Awards SCU Last Lecture Series, Nov. 2012 Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence, SCU, 2012 Commencement Speaker, Philosophy Dept. Commencement at U. of Delaware, May 2006 Graves Award (biennial award for teaching at West Coast liberal arts schools), 2004 SCU Technology Innovation Grant, 2004 SCU Presidential Research Grant, 2004 SCU Arts and Sciences Dean s Grant, 2004 Hackworth Grant for Teaching and Research in Applied Ethics, 2003 Markkula Ethics Center Scholar, 2003-present SCU University Curricular Development Grant, 2001 Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer Session 2001 Publications Articles: Socrates and the Recognition of Experts, in Wisdom, Ignorance, and Virtue: New Essays in Socratic Studies, Apeiron, Vol. XXX, no. 4, Dec. 1997, pp. 51-62. Stoic Conditionals, Necessity and Explanation. History and Philosophy of Logic, 23 (2002), pp. 241-252. Aristotle on Simultaneous Learning in Posterior Analytics I.1 and Prior Analytics II. 21. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2004), pp. 177-215. Socrates and Moral Expertise, in Ethics Expertise, ed. Lisa Rasmussen. Springer (2005), pp. 15-38. Aristotle on Empeiria. Ancient Philosophy, 26 (2006), pp. 23-44. How (and Maybe Why) to Grieve Like an Ancient Philosopher. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume (2012), pp. 321-342 Book Review: Review of Holger Thesleff s Studies in Plato s Two-Level Model. Classical Review, n.s. 50, no. 2, 2000, p. 623. Works in Progress: A book tentatively called The Concept of Heroism (6 chapters in draft form, another 6 or so to go) Aristotle on Knowing and Believing When Does Menos Boy Recollect? On the Obligation to Vote
Presentations As presenter: Battlefield Heroism, Santa Clara University Philosophy Dept. work-in-progress conference, January 2012. Battlefield Heroism, Santa Clara University Classics Dept., October 2011 Heroism and Degree of Difference, Santa Clara University Philosophy Dept. work-inprogress conference, April 2011 How (and Maybe Why) to Grieve like an Ancient Greek, Santa Clara University Philosophy Dept. work-in-progress conference, April 2010 How (and Maybe Why) to Grieve like an Ancient Greek, 15th Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2005 Is There an Obligation to Vote?, Ethics at Noon series at SCU, October 2008 Heroic Socrates and the Legacy of Socratic Heroism, 10th Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2005 Method and Epistemology at Odds in the Socratic Dialogues, 9th Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2004 Heroism: Greek Tragedy and the Post-9/11 World, Ethics at Noon series at SCU, May 2003 Aristotle on Empeiria, American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division Conference, December 2001 Expectations, Desert, and Probability, Ethics at Noon series at SCU, Oct. 2001 The Stoics on the Human, the Divine, and Fate, 22nd Annual Texas Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, February 1999 Socrates and the Recognition of Experts, Arizona Colloquium on Socrates, February 1996 As commentator: Reply to Reeve s Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium, Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2006 Reply to Frisbee Sheffield s Interpersonal Love in Plato s Symposium, Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2003 Reply to David O Connor s Dionysus Will Judge: Myth and Dialectic in the Symposium, Arizona Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, February 2002 Reply to Roslyn Weiss Desiring Kala, Wanting Agatha, and Choosing Kaka Intentionally, at Meno 77b-79a, Arizona Colloquium on Socrates, February 2000 Reply to John Heil s The Appearance of Emotion in Republic X, Arizona Colloquium on Socrates, February 1999 Reply to Hugh Benson s Socratic Self-Knowledge in the Charmides, Arizona
Colloquium on Socrates, February 1998 Reply to Edvard Petterson s Logical Fallacy and Philosophical Truth in the Gorgias, Arizona Colloquium on Socrates, February 1997 As chair: American Philosophical Association Western Division Conference, March 2003 UC Davis Conference on Mind and Nature, Oct. 2002 Arizona Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy, February 2001 At Our Best: Moral Lives in a Moral Community (Business Ethics), hosted by Markkula Center at Santa Clara University, February 2001 Professional Service I have served as a referee for Ancient Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Ethics and Information Technology. University Service Ethics Committee for the SCU Core Curriculum, 2013- Sabbatical Evaluation Committee, 2011- Ignatian Faculty Forum, 2009-2010 Faculty Director of ALPHA Residential Learning Community, Winter 2006-Spring 2010, Summer 2011- Academic Affairs Committee, 2008-2010 Culture and Ideas Committee for the SCU Core Curriculum, 2007-2009 Co-founder and Co-director, Cafe Socrates (weekly undergraduate philosophy discussion group), 2001-present Organizer, 2004 Fagothey Philosophy Conference, (on Contemporary work on Aristotle) Assessment Committee, Philosophy Dept., 2003- Interim Director of ALPHA Residential Learning Community, Spring 2003 and Spring 2004 Emerging Issues Fellow, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, 2004- Hiring Committee, Philosophy Dept., 2002-2004 Library Liaison, Philosophy Dept., 2002-2006 Oxford scholarship selection committee, Honors Program, 2003-2010 Language Competencies (reading, anyway) Ancient Greek Latin French German
Teaching Experience and Competence HNRS 11: Classical Culture HNRS 11A: Cultures and Ideas I : Heroes and Heroism PHIL 2: Intro to Ethics PHIL 5/5H: Ethics and Society PHIL 6: Ethics and Business PHIL 8/8H: Ethics and Politics PHIL 11: Classical and Medieval Philosophy (Intro to Western Culture) PHIL 11A: Cultures and Ideas I : Concepts of Justice and the Just Society PHIL 12A: Cultures and Ideas II : Concepts of Justice and the Just Society PHIL 51: Classical and Medieval Philosophy PHIL 122: Political Philosophy and Ethics PHIL 131: Ancient Philosophy: Platonic epistemology Plato s and Aristotle s Epistemology Aristotle s Practical Philosophy Aristotelian and Hellenistic Epistemology Stoicism CLAS 144/PHIL 131A: The Age of Socrates CLAS 141/PHIL 131D: Love and Relationships in Classical Antiquity CLAS 199: Plato s Meno (in original Greek) CLAS 199: Plato s Apology (in original Greek) As a graduate student at the University of Arizona: Intro to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Fall 1999) Business Ethics (Fall 1998, Spring 1999) Medical Ethics (Fall 1996) Intro to History of Political Philosophy ( Justice and Virtue ) (Summer 1996, 1998-2000)