Dhananjay Jagannathan

Dhananjay Jagannathan teaches philosophy and classical studies at Columbia University. His academic research centers on Aristotle’s ethics and political philosophy and contemporary virtue ethics. He has also written about issues at the intersection of philosophy and literature, including on tragedy and the novel. At present he is completing a book manuscript entitled Aristotle’s Practical Epistemology, which seeks to situate Aristotle’s theory of practical wisdom within his views of knowledge and understanding and thereby to explain why Aristotle thinks of practical wisdom as an extraordinary achievement that is equivalent to political wisdom. 

He has also taught philosophy at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as part of Columbia’s Justice-in-Education Initiative. Before taking his position at Columbia, he taught at Dartmouth College. He received his PhD from the Joint Program in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy at the University of Chicago, having studied philosophy and classics at Balliol College, Oxford and St John’s College, Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. He is a member of the New York Regional Selection Committee for the Marshall Scholarship and a national selector for the Beinecke Scholarship.