Greg’s Recent Work
Education
The University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy, Ph.D. August, 2008. Dissertation: Aristotle and the Problem of Concepts. Committee: James G. Lennox (chair), James Allen, Allan Gotthelf, Jessica Moss.
The College of New Jersey, B.A. in philosophy with honors (classics minor), 2001
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Objectivism
Areas of Competence
Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Employment
Salem Center, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas Austin, Senior Philosophy Scholar and Director of Program for Objectivity in Thought, Action, and Enterprise, 2020 to present.
Rutgers University, Part time Lecturer 2014 to 2020
Anthem Foundation, Fellow in Philosophy, 2014 to 2020.
Stevens Institute of Technology, Adjunct Professor 2014 to 2015
Boston University, Visiting Fellow, 2012 to 2014.
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2008 to 2012.
Papers and Book Chapters
“Selfish-Regard for the Rights of Others: Continuing a Conversation with Zwolinski, Miller, and Mossoff” in Salmieri and Mayhew (eds.) Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
“Intellectual Property and the Freedom Needed to Solve the Crisis of Resistant Infections” George Mason Law Review, 26:1. 2018.
“On the Role of Voting in the American System of Government” in Hoenig (ed.) A New Textbook of Americanism. Capitalist Pig Publications, 2018.
“Something(s) in the Way(s) He Moves: Reconsidering the Embryological Argument for Robustly Particular Forms in Aristotle” in Falcon and Lefebre (eds.) Aristotle’s Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
“An Introduction to the Study of Ayn Rand” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley- Blackwell 2016.
“The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values)” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell 2016.
“Egoism and Altruism: Selfishness and Sacrifice” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley- Blackwell 2016.
“The Objectivist Epistemology” in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell 2016.
“A Philosopher on Her Times: Ayn Rand’s Political and Cultural Commentary” (co-authored with John David Lewis) in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand, Wiley-Blackwell 2016.
“Hallmarks of Objectivism: The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic View of Man” (co-authored with Allan Gotthelf) in Gotthelf and Salmieri (eds.) A Companion to Ayn Rand. Wiley-Blackwell 2016.
“Aristotle on Selfishness: Understanding the Iconoclasm of Nicomachean Ethics IX.8” Ancient Philosophy 34, 2014.
“How We Choose Our Beliefs” (co-authored with Benjamin Bayer), Philosophia 42:1, 2014.
“Aristotelian Epistēmē and the Relation between Knowledge and Understanding” Metascience 23:1, 2014.
“Conceptualization and Justification” in Gotthelf and Lennox (eds.), Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge, University of Pittsburgh Press 2013.
“Forms of Awareness and Three-Factor Theories” in Gotthelf and Lennox (eds.), Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge, University of Pittsburgh Press 2013.
“Αἴσθησις, Ἐμπειρία, and the Advent of Universals in Posterior Analytics II 19” in James Lesher (ed.), From Inquiry to Demonstrative Knowledge: New Essays on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (Apeiron XLIII: 2, 3), 2010.
“Aristotle’s Non-Dialectical Methodology in the Nicomachean Ethics” Ancient Philosophy 29, 2009.
“Atlas Shrugged on the Role of the Mind in Man’s Existence” & “Discovering Atlantis” in Robert Mayhew (ed.), Essays on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Lexington, 2009.
“Prometheus’s Discovery: Individualism and the Meaning of the Concept ‘I’ in Anthem” in Robert Mayhew (ed.), Essays on Ayn Rand’s Anthem, Lexington 2005.
“Ayn Rand” (co-authored with Allan Gotthelf) in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes-Continuum, 2005.
Books Edited
The Foundations of a Free Society: Reflections on Ayn Rand’s Political Philosophy, Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies, vol. 3 (co-edited with Robert Mayhew), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
A Companion to Ayn Rand (co-edited with Allan Gotthelf), Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Other Publications
Review of Form Without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception by Maek Eli Kalderon. Journal of the History of Philosophy 55:2, April 2017.
“Is Kant’s the Ideal Statement of Classical Liberalism,” Cato Unbound, October 2016.
Papers Presented at Academic Conferences
“Aristotle and Ayn Rand on the Standard of Value,” Ayn Rand Society meeting at the American Philosophical Association, February, 2020.
“Aristotelian Ethics Without Exploitation?” Rutgers, October 2016.
“The Universality of Knowledge,” Rutgers University, June 2015.
“Something in the Way(s) he Moves: Reconsidering the Embryological Argument for Robustly Particular Forms inAristotle,” Humboldt University, Berlin, April 2015.
“Aristotelian Ethics Without Exploitation?” Notre Dame, May 2014.
“Something in the Way(s) he Moves: Reconsidering the Embryological Argument for Robustly Particular Forms in Aristotle,” Université Paris, Sorbonne, January 2014.
“Are You Experienced: Identifying Aristotelian Empeiria,” Rutgers University, October 2013
“Aristotle on Making Up Names,” Rutgers University, May 2013.
“Aristotle on Making Up Names,” Loyola University of Chicago, November 2012.
“Aristotle on Selfishness,” Boston University, September 2012.
“Aristotle on Selfishness,” University of Oslo, May 2012.
“Does Virtue Make Money or Make it Good? How to Understand Apology 30b2-4,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, February 2012.
“Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Choice to Think,” The 29th annual joint meeting of The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with The Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, Fordham University, October 2011.
“Aristotle on Making Up Names,” The University of Texas at Austin, Fall Colloquium Series, October 2010.
“The Act of Awareness,” Warwick University, Conference on Perception Consciousness and Reference, 2009.
“Perception (Αἴσθησις), Experience (Ἐμπειρία), and the Advent of Universals in Posterior Analytics II 19,” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University, Conference on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, April 2009.
“Aristotle on the Units of Thought and Knowledge,” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009.
“The Universality or Particularity of Aristotelian Forms: What Makes the Uncuttables Uncuttable?” Trinity University, 2009.
“Aristotle on Concept-Formation in Mathematics and Natural Science,” University of Pittsburgh, Delimiting Aristotle’s Science of Nature, 2008
“Aristotle’s Conception of Universality,” Rice University, 2008; The University of Notre Dame, 2008.
“Justification as an aspect of Conceptualization,” The Claremont Colleges, Workshop on Justification and Normativity, 2007.
“Aristotle on the Ontological Basis of Zoological Classification,” The University of Birmingham, Nature and its Classification: A Metaphysics of Science Conference, 2007.
“How We Choose Our Beliefs,” University of Miami, Graduate Conference in Epistemology, 2007; The University of Warwick, Mind Grad, 2006.
“Defining the Virtues: Methodology in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics III-V,” The University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy, Works in Progress Series, 2002.
Comments and Informal Presentations at Academic Conferences
Comment on Blaine Fowers “Resolving the Problem of Individualism: Shared Good and Eudaimonia” at Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Wellbeing workshop, Rutgers University, September 2019.
Comment on Carrie-Ann Biondi’s “Being Integrated: A Labor of Self-Love,” Ayn Rand Society meeting at the APA Eastern Division, January, 2019.
Comment on James Allen’s “Philosophers and Physicians on Art and Experience: the Gorgias and
On Ancient Medicine.” Knowledge in Action: Greek Conceptions of Action-Oriented Knowledge in Ethics, Craft, and Science, Haverford College, April, 2016.
Comment on James G. Lennox’s “The Μεθόδος of Nature.” New York University, April, 2016.
Comment on Jason Hill’s “Biological Collectivism and the Politics of Racial Identity,” Ayn Rand Society meeting at the APA Eastern Division conference, January, 2016.
Comment on Emily Katz’s “Ontological Separation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” Allan Gotthelf Memorial Workshop on Aristotle, University of Pittsburgh, 2015.
Comment on Daniel Devereux’s “Substantial Form in Metaphysics Z & Some of its Precursors.” Brown University Hylomorphism Conference, March, 2014.
Comment on Christine Swanton’s “Virtues of creativity and productivity, Moral Theory, and Human Nature” and Helen Cullyer’s “Pride and Greatness in Aristotle,” APA Pacific Division, April 2011.
Comment on David Charles’ “Aristotle’s Philosophy of Science Reexamined,” Workshop on Aristotle’s Method(s) of Inquiry, UNC, Chapel Hill, March 2011
Comment on Riin Sirkel’s “Knowledge of Particulars in Aristotle,” 34th Ancient Philosophy Workshop, Washington University, March 2011.
Comment on Ian McCready-Flora’s “Aristotle on Rational Thought: Believing at Will, Aiming at Truth,” APA Eastern Division, December 2010.
Comment on Fredrick Steinle’s “Concepts and Research Practice: The Case of Faraday,” The University of Pittsburgh, Workshop on Concepts, Induction and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge, September 2010.
Comment on Rob Bolton’s “Stages of Inquiry in GA I”, University of Western Ontario, Understanding the Methodology at Work in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals, May 2010.
Comment on Brian Tamanaha’s “The ‘Unless Clause’ of Stare Decisis: Insights Gleaned from the Past,” The University of Texas, Austin, Precedent in Objective Law, 2009.
Comment on Christine Swanton’s “Virtue Ethics and Objectivity,” The Claremont Colleges, Workshop on Justification and Normativity, 2007.
Comment on Tara Smith’s “Originalism’s Misplaced Fidelity,” The University of Texas at Austin, Anthem Workshop on Law, 2007.
Comment on Ravi Sharma’s “Notes on Davidson’s Plato,” The University of Texas at Austin, 30th Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy, 2007.
Comment on Ingo Brigandt’s “Scientific Practice, Conceptual Change, and the Nature of Concepts,” The University of Pittsburgh, Objectivity and Concepts: Knowledge, Science and Values, 2006.
“Integration and Reduction as Means to Objectivity,” The University of Pittsburgh, Objectivity Workshop, 2005.
“Objectivity in the Interpretation of the Law” The University of Texas at Austin, Judicial Interpretation Workshop, 2005.
Comment on Diana Hsieh’s “False Excuses and Moral Growth,” Carnegie Mellon University and The University of Pittsburgh International Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, 2004.
Comment on Kyle Craft’s “Unjustified Belief as a Foundation for Justified Belief,” Carnegie Mellon University and The University of Pittsburgh International Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, 2004.
“Concepts and Justification,” The University of Pittsburgh, Concepts Workshop, 2004.
Appearances on Academic Podcasts
Elucidations, Episode 73: “Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy,” July 2015.
Elucidations, Episode 50: “Greg Salmieri discusses the Aristotelian good life and productive work,” August 2013.
Conferences Organized
Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Wellbeing (co-organized with Gena Gorlin), Rutgers University, September 27–29, 2019.
Williamstown Revisited: Celebrating Allan Gotthelf and Jim Lennox’s Collaboration in Aristotle Scholarship (co-organized with Robert Bolton), Williams College, July 13–15, 2018.
Aristotle Resurgent: Exploring Neo-Aristotelian Approaches to Ethics, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science (co-organized with James G. Lennox), University of Pittsburgh, May 22–24, 2017.
Aristotle’s Theoretical and Practical Philosophy (Part of the Allen Gotthelf Memorial Workshop Series), Rutgers University, October 2016 (co-organized with James G. Lennox and Robert Bolton).
Allan Gotthelf Memorial Workshop on Aristotle, University of Pittsburgh, October 2015 (co-organized with James G. Lennox and Robert Bolton).
Allan Gotthelf Memorial Workshop on Works-In-Progress, Rutgers University, June 2015 (co-organized with James G. Lennox).
Allan Gotthelf Memorial Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Rutgers University, June 2015 (co- organized with James G. Lennox and Robert Bolton).
Workshop on Workers, Slaves and the Disenfranchised in Aristotle, University of Notre Dame, May 2014 (co- organized with Joseph Karbowski).
Boston Workshop on Aristotle’s Epistemology, March 2013.
Workshop on Aristotle on Discovery and Justification, University of Pittsburgh, 2012 (co-organized with James G. Lennox and Allan Gotthelf).
Workshop on Aristotle’s Method(s) of Inquiry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011 (co-organized with James G. Lennox).
UNC / Duke Workshop on the Intellectual Virtues, 2010 (co-organized with Michael Ferejohn, James Lesher, and David Reeve).
The 6th Annual CMU / University of Pittsburgh International Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, 2004 (co-organized).
Courses Taught
“Plato,” Rutgers University (Fall 2019)
“Introduction to Philosophy,” Rutgers University (Fall, 2019; Spring, 2019; Fall, 2017; Fall, 2016), The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Fall, 2011; Fall, 2010; Fall, 2009; Fall, 2008).
“Plato and Aristotle,” Rutgers University (Spring 2020; Fall, 2019; Fall, 2018; Spring, 2018; Fall, 2017; Fall, 2016; Fall, 2015; Fall, 2014).
“Logic, Reason, and Persuasion,” Rutgers University (Spring 2018; Spring, 2016).
“Aristotle,” Rutgers University (Spring, 2015).
“Philosophy of Human Nature,” Stevens Institute of Technology (Fall, 2014).
“Ancient Greek Philosophy” Boston University (Spring, 2013).
“Making Sense of Ourselves,” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Spring, 2012; Spring, 2010).
“Ancient Greek Philosophy,” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Spring, 2012; Fall, 2011; Fall, 2010; Fall, 2009; Spring, 2009); The University of Pittsburgh (Spring, 2005; Summer, 2004; Summer, 2003)
“Theory of Knowledge,” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Spring, 2011; Spring, 2009).
“Special Topics: Aristotle’s Ethics.” The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Spring, 2010; Fall 2008).
“Introduction to Ethics,” The University of Pittsburgh: Fall, 2004; Spring, 2004.