Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Jacob Stump received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Toronto. He writes about moral psychology in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is a member of the Mellon Philosophy as a Way of Life Project and leads the Philosophy as a Way of Life Working Group at Northeastern. He is Faculty-in-Residence for the Honors Program. He is currently writing on eros in Plato: what it is, its relationship to beauty and pleasure and happiness, and its influence on evaluative reasoning.
College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award, 2020-21
Stump, J. 2020. “On Socrates’ Project of Philosophical Conversion”. Philosophers’ Imprint 20 (32): 1-19.
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Education
PhD, University of Toronto
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408 Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA, 02115
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