Emily Austin joined the Wake Forest Philosophy Department in Fall 2009 after receiving her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.  She specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy.

• “The Moral Psychology of Patriotism in Plato’s Protagoras,” forthcoming in Apeiron.
• “Legislating Immortality in Plato’s Republic,’ Ancient Philosophy, 36: 133-150 (2016).
• “Plato on Grief as a Mental Disorder,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 98. 1: 1-20 (2016).
• “Self-Defense, Corpses, and Immortality: Callicles’ Fear of Death in the Gorgias,” Ancient Philosophy 33.1:33-52 (2013)
• “Epicurus and the Politics of Fearing Death,” Apeiron 45. 2: 109-129 (2012).
• “Malice and Public Refutation in the Philebus,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 29. 2: 125-139 (2012).
• “Prudence and the Fear of Death in Plato’s Apology,” Ancient Philosophy 30: 39-55 (2010).

• PHI   164   Contemporary Moral Problems
• PHI   232   Ancient Greek Philosophy
• PHI   331   Plato
• PHI   280   Hellenistic Philosophy
• PHI   332   Aristotle
• PHI   360   Ethics
• FYS  100   Death