{"id":158,"date":"2014-03-11T15:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:14:44","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>I specialize in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly its earliest phase. My\u00a0first book, <i>Plato\u2019s Reception of Parmenides<\/i> (Oxford, 1999) explored the Eleatic underpinnings of Platonic metaphysics and epistemology. After joining the Florida Philosophy Department, I was awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars by the American Council of Learned Societies in 2003 and spent a fellowship year at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC. There I wrote my second book, <i>Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy<\/i> (Oxford, 2009), which developed a modal interpretation of Parmenides that has prompted revision of our understanding of this seminal figure\u2019s place in the development of early Greek thought. I have since held a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend in 2008 to support ongoing work on a new translation of Diogenes\u2019 Laertius\u2019s <i>Lives of the Philosophers<\/i>. I have recently written on the Pythagoreans and Plato for <i>The Cambridge History of Pythagoreanism <\/i>(Cambridge, forthcoming). Aided by\u00a0the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014-2015, I have recently been\u00a0developing ideas broached there in a book exploring how Plato, as he began to move beyond his Socratic inheritance, would have understood the Pythagoreans as advocating a conception of value, goodness, and well-being that he found highly amenable to his own purposes. A broader aim of the project is to argue that correct evaluative judgment is more fundamental than virtue in Platonic ethics and in ancient ethical theories more generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/palmerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}