Cynthia Freeland

Cynthia Freeland is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas, USA. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1979. She has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and been a visiting professor at Harvard, Pennsylvania, Duke, and the Australian National University. Her book But Is It Art (Oxford, 2001) has now been translated into 10 languages. She works on topics in ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy, and aesthetics. Her current projects include a book on portraits in art and an article on Aristotle on imagination and images. Her publications on ancient philosophy include Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle, editor (Penn State University Press, 1998); “Schemes and Scenes of Reading The Timaeus”, in L. Alanen and C. Witt, Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (Kluwer, 2004); and "Feminism, Ideology and Interpretation in Ancient Philosophy" (Apeiron, No. 4 2000)

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