Rachel Barney
Born	(1966-09-14) 14 September 1966 (age 58)
Education	Princeton University (PhD)
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of Toronto
Thesis	A Reading of Plato's Cratylus (1995)
Doctoral advisor	John Madison Cooper
Main interests	ancient philosophy
Website	http://individual.utoronto.ca/rbarney/Home.html

Rachel Barney (born 14 September 1966) is a Canadian philosopher and Professor and Acting Associate Chair at the department of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is known for her works on ancient philosophy.^[1][2][3]

Barney got her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD at Princeton.^[4] She returned back to the University of Toronto after teaching at the University of Chicago, the University of Ottawa, and Harvard.^[4] Barney did research that ranged from the early sophists to the late Neoplatonic commentator Simplicius; nevertheless, most of her research focused on Plato. Her most prominent areas of research are ethics, psychology, philosophical methods, and epistemology.^[4]

• Names and Nature in Plato’s Cratylus, Routledge, 2001
• Plato and the Divided Self, co-edited with Tad Brennan and Charles Francis Brittain, Cambridge University Press, 2012
• “History and Dialectic (Metaphysics A 3, 983a24-4b8)”, in Carlos Steel ed., Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha (Symposium Aristotelicum XVIII) (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• “Notes on the Kalon and the Good in Plato,” Classical Philology (Special Issue: Beauty, Harmony and the Good, October 2010)
• ”Plato on Desire for the Good”, S. Tenenbaum, ed., Desire, Good, and Practical Reason. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
• “Ring-Composition in Plato: the Case of Republic X,” in M. McPherran, ed., Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• “Gorgias’ Defence: Plato and his Opponents on Rhetoric and the Good,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 48.1 (2010): 95-121
• “Simplicius: Commentary, Harmony, and Authority,” Antiquorum Philosophia 3 (2009): 101-20
• “Aristotle’s Argument for a Human Function,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 (2008): 293-322
• “Eros and Necessity in the Ascent from the Cave,” Ancient Philosophy 28:2 (2008): 357-72
• “The Carpenter and the Good”, in D. Cairns, F. G. Herrmann, and T. Penner (eds.) Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato’s Republic (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008).

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