Justin Vlasits, PhD
Associate Professor
Philosophy
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About
Justin Vlasits is an Associate Professor. He received his PhD in 2017 from the University of California, Berkeley and previously worked at the University of Tübingen.
Professor Vlasits works mainly on ancient philosophy. These days he's mostly writing about Aristotle's lost works, as well as women in early analytic philosophy such as Margaret MacDonald and Olga Hahn. He enjoys teaching ancient philosophy, logic, and increasingly philosophy in non-Western traditions.
Selected Recent Publications:
- Edited with G. Anthony Bruno, Transformation and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 2024).
- “The Pyrrhonian Use of Dogmatic Methods: Definition & Division”, in History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis (online first).
- “TBD: Sextus Empiricus on Inquiry and Suspension of Judgment”, in Verena Wagner and Alexandra Zinke (eds.), Suspension in Epistemology and Beyond (Routledge, 2025), 207-224.
- With Richard Lawrence, “Olga Hahn, On the Coefficients of a Logical Equation and their Relation to the Theory of Valid Inference: Translators' Introduction”, in Colin Guthrie King and Venanzio Raspa (eds.), Aristotle's Organon in the Old and New Logic: 1800-1950 (Bloomsbury, 2025), 243-252.
- With Freya Möbus, “Division and Animal Sacrifice in Plato’s Statesman”, Archai 34 Supplement (2024), 1-28.
- “The Puzzle of the Sophist”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 105.3 (2023), 359-387.
- “Margaret MacDonald’s Scientific Common-Sense Philosophy”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (forthcoming)
Education
PhD University of California, Berkeley, 2017