I was an undergraduate at Princeton and a graduate student at Chicago, which is also my hometown.
I'm pretty much interested in everything (not as fun as it sounds, trust me). But officially it's ancient political and ethical thought. More officially still it's the contributions made to political thinking from outside the proper philosophical tradition (Cf. my dissertation: The Athenian Courtroom: Politics, Rhetoric, Ethics). And thanks to the guy on the right of the picture, Ben, I'm very interested in the reception of classical antiquity in German Idealism and in so-called 'Kantian' readings of Aristotle (and vice versa).
Here are a few links that are well worth visiting, all of them deep contributions to human knowledge:
Robert Pippin's homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~rbp1/publications.shtml
Patchen Markell's homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~pmarkell/index2.html
John McDowell's homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~philosop/people/mcdowell.html
Jonathan Lear's homepage: http://socialthought.uchicago.edu/faculty/lear.htm
Stephen Metcalf's stuff on Slate: http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&qp=30901
www.whpk.org (University of Chicago Radio)
www.wxyc.org (UNC Radio)
Please feel free to email me with any questions or suggestions (esp.
good things to read):
bpboyle@email.unc.edu. If you don't hear back from me in 48 hrs.,
write again, b/c something's gone awry!
E-mail: bpboyle@email.unc.edu
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