Harald (Hal) Thorsrud
Phone: 404.471.6211
Email: hthorsrud@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Buttrick 347
Academic Degrees
- BA, University of Nevada, Reno
- MA, University of Nevada, Reno
- PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professor Thorsrud's interests include Ancient philosophy, skepticism, moral psychology, and ethics.
Professional Activities
Recent publications:
- “Ancient Ethical Theories,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), (revision, with Richard Parry, of his original 2004 entry).
- Review of Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, by J.P.F. Wynne, Journal of the History of Philosophy 59.3 (2021): 513-14.
- “Piety and Theology in the Stoics, Epicureans, and Pyrrhonian Skeptics,” in The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, Kelly Arensen (ed.) New York: Routledge 2020. 271-82.
- Review of Aristotle on Religion, by Mor Segev, Philosophical Review 129.2 (2020): 299-302.
- “Sextus Empiricus on the Siren Song of Reason and the Skeptical Defense of Ordinary Life,” Logos and Episteme 10.1 (2019): 15-29, special issue, Scott Aikin (ed.).
- Review of Cicero’s Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy, by Walter Nicgorski. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 9 (2019): 339-43.
- Review of Aristotle, De Anima, translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve, Teaching Philosophy 42.1 (2019): 27-30.