Thornton Lockwood

Thornton Lockwood is Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University (with a joint appointment in Environmental Studies). He received a BA in history from Hamilton College, a MA in the Liberal Arts from St. John's College (Annapolis), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University. His research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman ethical and political thought, and he has published the co-edited volumes Aristotle's Politics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Aristote Politique VII: La constitution « selon nos vœux » (in Polis 36.1: 2019). His research on Aeschylus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero has been published in journals such as Phronesis, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Apeiron, Review of Politics, Ancient Philosophy, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Classical World, and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. Recent publications include “Aristotle,” in Nederman and Bogiaris-Thibault, eds., Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024), pp. 290–301; “Artemisia of Halicarnassus: Herodotus' excellent counsel” (Classical World 116 [2023]: 147–172); and “Aristotle's Politics on Greeks and non-Greeks” (Review of Politics 83 [2021]: 465–485). He is also the Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought. His teaching interests include global justice, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of war and peace. He is currently at work on two overlapping projects: He has written several pieces on the moral status of non-human animals in Aristotle's ethical and political works, which he plans to develop into a monograph tentatively titled Animals in the City by Nature: Aristotle's Environmental Philosophy. He is also finishing up a manuscript entitled Aristotle on Justice: The Virtues of Citizenship and Constitutions (currently under contract at Cambridge University Press). For 2022–23 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Classics Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and for spring 2023, Professeur invité at Université Paris I.