Joseph Bjelde

Joseph Bjelde completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at UC Berkeley in 2012 and has been an Assistant Professor in the Institut für Philosophie at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin since 2013. He is interested in nearly everything, but his work focuses on epistemology, Plato, and Aristotle, and has appeared in Mind, Analysis, Synthese, and Classical Quarterly. He is especially interested in how abilities to reason and persuade matter both to epistemology as well as to abilities to perform actions that require the participation of others. For instance: if it takes two to tango, does an ability to tango require an ability to persuade others to dance, or an ability to teach others to tango?  His current book project develops a broadly similar idea: that according to Plato, ruling a city requires some special abilities to persuade the ruled.

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Courses offered at Bard College Berlin:
Plato and Aristotle on the Political Significance of Knowledge and Philosophy (Spring 2022)

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Joseph Bjelde
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