Philosophy and Religion

Dr. Walter Thomas Schmid, Professor

Faculty portrait, contact information, and education.
Tom Schmid

Office: Bear Hall 270
Phone: (910) 962-3409
Email: schmidt@uncw.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Yale University
  • M.Phil., Yale University
  • B.A., Yale University
  • Areas of Expertise
    • Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
    • Plato and Aristotle
    • American Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Sport
  • Publications
    • “Aristotle’s Theory of Magnanimity” History of Political Thought XLIII/3 (Autumn, 2022)
    • “Plato on the Arts” Archai: Origins of the Western Philosophical Tradition 29 (April, 2020); Online https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/archai/issue/view/1986 (2020)
    • “Socratic Moderation and Self-Knowledge” original Journal of the History of Philosophy (1983), trans. with commentary by S. C. Camacho, as “Moderación socrática y conocimiento de sí” Ideas Y Valores Nº 171 (2019)
    • Golf as Meaningful Play: A Philosophy and Guide, Rowman & Littlefield (May 2017)
    • "Moral Education in Plato's Republic", JPhilo (2014)
    • "A Kantian Theory of Sport", Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 40:1 (May 2013)
    • "The Politics of Reconciliation", International Studies in Philosophy 38:4 (2008)
    • "Socratic Rationality" in Does Socrates Have a Method? ed. Gary Scott (Pennsylvania State University, 2004)
    • The Socratic Ideal of Rationality and Plato's Charmides (State University of New York , 1998)
    • "Socrates' Practice of Elenchus" in Socrates: Critical Assessments (Vol. III), ed. W. J. Prior (Routledge, 1997).
    • On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato's Laches (Southern Illinois University, 1992)
    • “Socratic Courage” History of Philosophy Quarterly 2/2 (1985)
    • “Socratic Self-Knowledge and Moderation” Journal of the History of Philosophy 21/3 (1983)
    • “Philosophy and Moral Commitment” Ancient Philosophy  II/2 (1982)
    • “Socrates’ Practice of Elenchus” Ancient Philosophy  I/2 (1981)
    • “The Concept of Choice in Aristotle” Paideia 5th annual edition (1976) 
  • Courses Taught
    • PAR 101: Invitation to Philosophical Thinking
    • PAR 201: History of Western Philosophy I
    • PAR 202: History of Western Philosophy II: Modern
    • PAR 205: American Philosophy
    • PAR 292: Race and Discrimination
    • PAR 302: Plato
    • PAR 303: Aristotle
    • PAR 380: Philosophy of Drama
    • PAR 385: Philosophy of Sport
    • PAR 400: Art of Living
    • PAR 495: Dante & Aquinas; Modernity; Nietzsche, Freud & Marx; Postmodernism;  Socrates, Jesus, & the Buddha