Biography
Dr. Sarah Feldman is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ƶ Allison University. Her research focuses on the intersection of epistemology, philosophy of literature and philosophical methodology in ancient Greek philosophy. She is particularly interested in the intertwined logical and literary strategies that Plato and some of his predecessors use in their efforts to reshape their audience’s ways of seeing the world. Her work looks at how these thinkers both evoke and challenge the reasoning, values, emotions and sensations that shape answers to questions ranging from “What is water?” to “What is justice?” to “What is pain?”
Publications
Academic Publications (Journal articles and book chapters)
“Challenging Sensory Appearances from within through Relative Measurement”, International Plato Society Symposium Platonicum XIV Proceedings (forthcoming)
“Human-Relative Values as Epistemic Challenge in Heraclitus.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 107.4 (2025): 579-618.
“Fairness, Precision and Their Appearances in Aristotle’s Account of Rectificatory Justice.” dzé 30.1 (2025): 297-313.
“Heraclitus on the Question of a Common Measure.” Rhizomata 11.1 (2023): 1-32.
“Common Ground or Double Bind? The Possibility of Dialogue in Plato’s Crito.” Areté: Revista
de Filosofía 36 (2022): 21-44.
“Symbolic Cognition in Poetic Experience: Re-representing the Paraphrase Paradox.” British
Journal of Aesthetics 60.3 (2020): 283-298.
Education
PhD (University of Ottawa, 2022)
MA (Dalhousie University, 2006)
BA (University of Victoria, 2005)
Teaching
PHIL 1601: Plato’s Republic
PHIL 2701: Introductory Ethics
PHIL 3000: Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 3991B: Skeptical Paradoxes
Grants, awards & honours
Ancient Philosophy Society Diversity Prize for “Fairness, Precision and Their Appearances in Aristotle’s Account of Rectificatory Justice”, 2024