Allison Postell
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“It is a joy to help students discover for themselves how studying philosophy engages their deepest interests, and how living philosophically promises to transform them.”— Dr. Allison Postell
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Allison Postell
Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Dallas, awarded with distinction
M.A. in Philosophy, University of Dallas
B.A. in Philosophy and Spanish, St. Norbert College
Biography
Allison Postell specializes in Aristotelian ethics and metaphysics, and its application to contemporary virtue ethics. From 2010-2020, Postell taught at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. During part of her time there, she was the Director of Classics and taught text seminars spanning from the Pre-Socratic philosophers through the Renaissance. Postell joined Hillsdale College in 2020. She is currently writing a book on the intersection of Aristotle’s ethics and metaphysics, titled The Nature of Virtue Ethics, and greatly enjoys doing philosophy with the students at Hillsdale.