| Rachel Barney | |
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| Born | 14 September 1966 | 
| Education | |
| Education | Princeton University (PhD) | 
| Thesis | A Reading of Plato's Cratylus (1995) | 
| Doctoral advisor | John Madison Cooper | 
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy | 
| Region | Western philosophy | 
| Institutions | University of Toronto | 
| 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]
In the 2011 Canadian federal election,Barney was Green Party candidate in Trinity—Spadina,placing fourth. [5] [6]