Assistant
Professor of Philosophy
M.A. (Bucharest, Romania), Ph.D. (Guelph,
Ontario)
Phone:
(306) 359-1261
E-mail: Cristina.Ionescu@uregina.ca
Ancient
Greek Philosophy
Kant
Heidegger
Book:
Plato's Meno: An Interpretation (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2007)
Articles:
"The Unity of the Philebus: Metaphysical Assumptions of the Good Human Life", Ancient Philosophy 27 (2007): 55-75.
"The Transition from the Lower to the Higher Mysteries of Love in Plato's Symposium,” Dialogue 46 (2007): 27-42.
"The Mythical Introduction of Recollection in the Meno (81a-e3)", Journal of Philosophical Research, vol. 31 (2006): 153-170.
"Another Kantian Argument for the Refutation of Problematic Idealsim: Kant's Fragment On Inner Sense (The Leningrad Fragment)"-in Portret de grup cu filosofia: Studii de istoriograie filosofica, Timisoara: Editura Universitatii de Vest, 2005, pp. 221-243 (in Romanian).
"The Concept of the Last God in Heidegger's Beiträge: Hints towards an Understanding of the Gift of Sein", Studia Phaenomenologica II, No.1-2/2002, pp. 59-95.
I am currently working on Plato's Philebus. The dialogue develops as a dialectical investigation of the various types of pleasure and knowledge whose appropriate mixture produces a good life. My main concern is to see how the ethical, epistemological and metaphysical aspects, which seem to be treated disparately, are interwoven throughout the text.