Henry Curcio

Henry (he/him) earned his M.A. in philosophy at Western Michigan University and his B.A. in philosophy and mathematics at Hamilton College. Recently, he has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship by the Institute for Regional and International Studies, funding him to learn Arabic over the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. He will also be an Animal Advocacy Fellowship facilitator, serving as an instructor on topics in animal ethics. He is primarily interested in ancient Greek philosophy, especially the work of Plato. He is most interested in Plato’s political works and moral psychology. These intersect with his secondary interests in contemporary political and legal theory as well as in ethics and moral psychology. In each of these domains, he thinks the ancient world has much to offer to contemporary debates. Currently, he is working on three projects: one on the status of civil disobedience in the Crito, another on eros and the epistemic ascent from the Cave in the Republic, and a third on the role of anthropocentrism (or lack thereof) in Aristotle’s account of teleology. Above, you will see him next to a bust of Socrates. His favorite song about Odysseus is ‘Home at Last’ by Steely Dan.