Melissa Lane is a full professor of politics at Princeton University

Princeton University

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. Before becoming a professor at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in 2008, she was a fellow

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 of King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge

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 and Associate Director of their Centre for History and Economics.

Academic career

She graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 'summa cum laude' with a degree in Social Studies. As a Marshall

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, Truman, and Phi Beta Kappa

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 scholar, Lane went on to earn an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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.

Books

• Plato’s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind. Duckworth, 2001. Reviewed in
  • Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews,
  • Heythrop Journal
  • Mind,
  • Times Literary Supplement,
  • Greece and Rome, '
  • Philosophy in Review,
  • Phronesis,
  • Prudentia,
  • Review of Politics,
• Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed in
  • Polis
  • Athenaeum
  • Archives de Philosophie,
  • Classical Review,
  • Classical World
  • Ethicsw
  • Greece and Rome
  • Heythrop Journal
  • Journal of the History of Philosophy,
  • Review of Metaphysics
  • Phronesis.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

(selected)

• "The evolution of eironeia in classical Greek texts: why Socratic eironeia is not Socratic irony", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2006) 49-83.
• "Argument and Agreement in Plato’s Crito", History of Political Thought 19:3 (1998) 313-330.
• "The utopianism of Hamilton’s state of needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politics", South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (2006) 207-213.
• "Why History of Ideas At All?", History of European Ideas 28:1-2 (2002) 33-41.
• "States of Nature, Epistemic and Political", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1998-1999) 1-24.
• "Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?", History of Philosophy Quarterly 16:2 (April 1999) 119-42

External links

• University of Cambridge - Core Faculty