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Silvia Carli

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy

Office: Ladd 217
Phone: 518-580-5403
Email: scarli@skidmore.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Boston University

Teaching and research interests:
  • Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • History of Western Philosophy; Ethics
  • Philosophy and Literature
  • Philosophy of Mind/Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Love and Friendship
  • Recognition Theory
Publications:
  • “Relating Substances,” The Review of Metaphysics 77 (4) 2023: 219-146.
  • “Play a Little! Aristotle on Eutrapelia,” The Review of Metaphysics 296 (4) 2021: 465-495.
  • “Poetry and Historia” in The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context, eds. Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana L. Munteanu (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020), 202-223.
  • “Partial truth in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” International Philosophical Quarterly, 59 (3) 2019: 289-308.
  • Book Review. Eve Rabinoff, Perception in Aristotle’s Ethics (Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018), International Philosophical Quarterly 59 (1), 2019: 101-104.
  • “The Most Complete Activity,” International Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2), 2018: 191–208.
  • “Energeia and Being-in-time,” The Review of Metaphysics 71 (1), 2017: 45–63.
  • “The Temporality of Praxis in Aristotle,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter, 2015/16.1.
  • “The Love Affair between Poetry and Philosophy: Aristotle’s Poetics and Human Identity,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 53 (2), 2015: 151-177.
  • “Aristotle on Narrative Intelligence” in Narrative, Philosophy and Life (Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion, and Public Life) ed. A. Speight (Springer, 2015), 103-118.
  • “Aristotle on the Philosophical Elements of Historia,” The Review of Metaphysics 65 (2), 2011: 321-349.
  • “Poetry is more Philosophical than History: Aristotle on Mimesis and Form,” The Review of Metaphysics 64 (2), 2010: 303-336.
  • Book Review. Claudia Baracchi, Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2007), The Classical Bulletin 85 (1), 2010.
  • “Commentary on Lang’s ‘Body, Natural Things, and the Science of Nature’” in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, eds. J. J. Cleary & G. M. Gurtler, Vol. XXIV (Brill, 2009): 218-227.