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Patrick Lee Miller
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About Me
Born in Toronto, I grew up in Thunder Bay and St. Catharines, where I attended Ridley College. To these I owe my love of tundra landscapes and my suspicion of comfort, not to mention my sense that a man without a necktie is naked. My first university was McGill, in Montréal, where I had excellent teachers of philosophy and made still better friends. Moving to Chapel Hill in 1994, I began graduate studies at UNC in Philosophy. Finding English and American philosophy largely silent on the questions that interested me, I began learning Greek and Latin -- first in order to deepen my knowledge of ancient and medieval philosophy, which addressed these questions, but later in order to read more widely in classical literature, which woke me from my philistine slumbers. After finishing the coursework for a Ph.D. in Classics, I returned to UNC's Philosophy department in order to complete my dissertation on purity of thought in Greek philosophy (2005). With this defended, I worked for a year as the Managing Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, while also busy preparing various publications, and hunting for a tenure-track position in Philosophy. I secured one in Duquesne Philosophy, in Pittsburgh, where I moved in the summer of 2006. Enjoying the catholicism of this department, I have already had the opportunity to teach a wide variety of courses, on various periods and thinkers of ancient philosophy, from Thales to Augustine, but also on the modern thought that most interests me: Nietzsche and Freud, Existentialism and Psychoanalysis. The intersections of philosophy and psychology are of special importance to me because of my ongoing interest in psychoanalysis. In 2006 I earned a four-year "Didactic Academic Associate" degree from the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Carolinas (formerly the UNC / Duke Psychoanalytic Institute). This interest is continuous with my work in ancient philosophy because I consider psychoanalysis to be the best modern exponent of the Greeks' quest for self-knowledge. In that spirit, I am working on a long-term project about selfhood, especially the way it involves both reason and emotion.
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"Le souvenir d'une certaine image n'est que le regret d'un certain instant." - Proust
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© 2005 All Materials Copyright P.L. Miller |
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