Paul Stern

Professor of Politics

Department

Politics and International Relations

Degrees

  • B.A., Michigan State University
  • M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Teaching

Political Philosophy

Classical Political Philosophy

Science and the Common Good

Recent Work

Dante’s Philosophical Life: Politics and Human Wisdom in “Purgatorio” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

“Philosophy and Poetry in Michael Davis’s The Soul of the Greeks” in Writing the Poetic Soul of Philosophy (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2017).

Socrates’ Protagoras.” Invited review of Robert C. Bartlett, Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates. The Review of Politics (Winter, 2018).

Related News

Prof. Jonathan Marks at the June 2023 Revolutions in Liberal Education colloquium on the Ursinus campus.
A Liberal Education Revolution in D.C.

Professors Paul Stern and Jonathan Marks presented at the 2024 AAC&U Annual Meeting, continuing a dialogue that began at the inaugural Colloquium in Liberal Education at Ursinus last June.

Paul Stern
Dante’s Philosophical Life
Podcast about Paul Stern’s new book
The Colloquium for Liberal Education included a roundtable discussion in the Schellhase Commons. The panel included educators from higher...
Curriculum Matters in Second Annual Colloquium on Liberal Education

Ursinus College welcomed academic leaders from colleges and universities across the country for the Colloquium on Liberal Education, funded by the Teagle Foundation and held over two days on the Ursinus campus.