April Olsen

Graduate Fellow 2015-2016

Center for Ethics
Phone
504-865-5347
Office Address
Newcomb 107
April Olsen

Biography

April Olsen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy. She is writing her dissertation on psychology of punishment in the works of Plato and Nietzsche under the direction of Professor Richard Velkley.

Publications

  • “The Passions of the Soul in Aristotle’s Rhetoric,” Tradition and Renewal: Continuity and Change in Core and Liberal Arts Programs, ed., Tuan Hoang (ACTC Publications, forthcoming)

 

Selected Presentations

  • “A Defense of Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric III.13-19” (Summer Lecture Series, St. John's College, SF, June 2019)
  • “Platonic Metaphors in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” (American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2019)
  • “How Generosity Cures Anger in Descartes’ The Passions of the Soul” (Weatherhead Hall Honors Roundtable, March 2018)
  • “Socratic Paradigms in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” (American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, January 2018)
  • “From Anger to Emulation” (Marquette Conference on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition, June 2017)
  • “The Movement of Pity, Indignation, and Envy in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” (Association for Core Texts and Courses, April 2016)
  • “Nagarjuna's Imperishable Promissory Note” (Summer Lecture Series, St. John's College, SF, June 2014)

Education & Affiliations

  • B.A., University of Notre Dame
  • M.A., St. John's College