Background
Nails, Debra was born on November 15, 1950 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Daughter of Durwood Crawford and Helen (Johnson) Nails.
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Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation. It goes on to offer a new way to group the dialogues, based on important facts in the lives and philosophical practices of Socrates - the main speaker in most of Plato's dialogues - and of Plato himself. Both sides of Debra Nails's arguments deserve close attention: the negative side, which exposes a great deal of diversity in a field that often claims to have achieved a consensus; and the positive side, which insists that we must attend to what we know of these philosophers' lives and practices, if we are to make a serious attempt to understand why Plato wrote the way he did, and why his writings seem to depict different philosophies and even different approaches to philosophizing. From the Preface by Nicholas D. Smith.
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(Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extr...)
Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation. It goes on to offer a new way to group the dialogues, based on important facts in the lives and philosophical practices of Socrates - the main speaker in most of Plato's dialogues - and of Plato himself. Both sides of Debra Nails's arguments deserve close attention: the negative side, which exposes a great deal of diversity in a field that often claims to have achieved a consensus; and the positive side, which insists that we must attend to what we know of these philosophers' lives and practices, if we are to make a serious attempt to understand why Plato wrote the way he did, and why his writings seem to depict different philosophies and even different approaches to philosophizing. From the Preface by Nicholas D. Smith.
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Nails, Debra was born on November 15, 1950 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Daughter of Durwood Crawford and Helen (Johnson) Nails.
Bachelor in Philosophy, Louisiana State University, 1973. Master of Arts in Philosophy and Classical Greek, Louisiana State University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1993.
Nails earned her Master of Arts Previously, she taught at in the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion at Mary Washington College. She is the chair of the Committee for Professional Ethics of the American Association of University Professors and was previously on the Committee for the Defense of Professional Rights of Philosophers, and the Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement of the American Philosophical Association.
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Nails currently teaches courses on the history of philosophy, continental rationalism, metaphysics, and modern philosophy. Nails" work primarily focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and early modern philosophy.
Married Berend Kolk, May 20, 1983 (deceased November 1987).