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  • Title:
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Department:
    Humanities and Social Sciences
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Joseph Forte, Ph.D.

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Background

Dr. Joseph M. Forte teaches ethics courses at Rivier that are part of the core curriculum. He specializes in the epistemology, ethics and metaphysics of Plato, with a focus on the topics of hope and psychagogy (essentially transforming hearts and minds) in Plato’s myths of the afterlife. He has also published on Aristotle, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and the value of the humanities. Most recently, he published the first revised edition of his textbook, Moral Issues and Movies. An Introduction to Ethical Theories and Issues Through the Lens of Film.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
  • M.A., Boston College
  • B.A., College of the Holy Cross

Courses Taught

  • Love and Hope in the Good Life
  • Theories of Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Contemporary Moral Issues
  • Dignity, Work, Vocation
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Modern Continental Philosophy
  • The Philosophy and Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Aristotelian Logic
  • Humanities
  • Greece, Rome, and the Birth of Christianity
  • Ancient Greece and Philosophical Inquiry
  • Foundations of Logical Reasoning
  • Philosophy of the Person
  • The Classical Mind
  • The Modern Mind
  • Introduction to Ethics
  • Introduction to Critical Thinking
  • Introduction to Philosophy

Recent Publications and Proceedings

  1. Moral Issues and Movies. An Introduction to Ethical Theories and Issues through the Lens of Film, First Revised Edition. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2024.
  2. Philosophical News: The Official Publication of the European Society for Moral Philosophy 23: The Humanities and Democracy (2023).
  3. “Lassoing Aristotle,” in Ted Lasso and Philosophy, eds. Mary E. Baggett, David J. Baggett, and William T. Irwin (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).
  4. “Introduction,” in Philosophical News 23: The Humanities and Democracy (2023).
  5. Moral Issues and Movies. An Introduction to Ethical Theories and Issues through the Lens of Film. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2021.
  6. Instructor’s Guide to Moral Issues and Movies. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2021. (online only)
  7. Review of Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought by Tae-Yeoun Keum, Review of Metaphysics, 75 (2021): 384-386.
  8. “Hope in Plato’s Myth of Er,” Philosophical News 17 (2020): 33-57.
  9. “A Model for Linking Interdisciplinary Courses Using Minimal Additional Preparation,” Insight. Rivier Academic Journal 15 (2019).
  10.  Commentary on Ewegen’s ‘A Man of No Substance: The Philosopher in Plato’s Gorgias,’ Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 33 (2018): 113-117.
  11. Review of The City-State of the Soul by Kevin Crotty, Review of Metaphysics 71 (2017): 376-377.
  12. Review of Quest for the Good Life by Oyvind Rabbas, Eyolfur Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim, and Miira Tuominen, Review of Metaphysics 70 (2017): 576-579.
  13. “Explaining Hope in Plato’s Philebus,” International Philosophical Quarterly 56 (2016): 283-295.
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