Dr. Michael Pakaluk

Dr. Pakaluk, associate professor of philosophy at Clark University in Worcester, MA, received his A.B. and later Ph. D. from Harvard, studying under W.V. Quine and John Rawls.

He is the author of several books and many scholarly articles in various areas of philosophy, including Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, the Clarendon Aristotle volume on Nicomachean Ethics, and, most recently, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction, published by Cambridge University Press. His work has played a major role in the recently renewed philosophical attention to the notion of friendship in ethics and political theory.

He is the Director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy and a Founding Member of the American Public Philosophy Institute. Dr. Pakaluk has been a visiting professor or scholar at Brown, St. Andrews, Cambridge and Harvard.

He is currently working on a new translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, as well as a treatise on philosophical issues concerning the family.