Personal and Epistemic Transformation in Aristotle

Marta Jimenez (Emory University), Andrew Culbreth (Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Marta Jimenez studied her BA between Madrid, Berlin, and Los Angeles, and received her Ph.D. in the Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Toronto (2011). She is currently Associate Professor of philosophy at Emory University, in Atlanta.

Professor Jimenez is the author a book titled “Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good” (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and of several papers on Aristotle which have appeared in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Phronesis, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy and Journal of the History of Philosophy. Her next project is a book entitled “Aristotle on Justice as a Personal Virtue: Self-Love, Friendship and Equality”.

Her research focuses on topics related to moral psychology, theory of emotions, ethics and political thought in Plato, Aristotle, and the Cynics, and she is also interested in contemporary ethics, emotion theory, action theory, social epistemology, and political philosophy.

Andrew Culbreth is a philosopher and teacher living in Atlanta, GA. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Emory University in May 2020, wherehe is currently a part-time instructor. He is alsoa part-time lecturer at Georgia Tech.

His current research stands at the intersection of ancient philosophy, ethics, and moral psychology. He wrote his dissertation on the nature and value of hope in the moral psychologies of Plato and Aristotle, but he is also interested in virtue ethics, Buddhist philosophy, and the history of philosophy broadly construed.

During the academic year 2018-19, he was a Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellow at Agnes Scott College. Before that, he served as a faculty member of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI). In2020, he assisted in the development of Georgia Tech’s Center for Ethics and Technology by organizing talks and communicating the value of the Center to institutional stakeholders.