Alex Priou is Teaching Assistant Professor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, and Society at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø.Ìý His research interests are in the history of political philosophy, with a specialization in Plato and the Pre-Socratic poets and philosophers.Ìý He's the author of three books: Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato's Parmenides (2018), Defending Socrates: Political Philosophy Before the Tribunal of Science (2023), and Musings on Plato's Symposium (2023).Ìý In addition, he has published a wide range of essays in academic journals and edited volumes, in addition to editing a volume of essays by his former teacher, Laurence Berns, under the title Politics, Nature, and Piety: On the Natural Basis of Political Life (2022).Ìý Lastly, he writes occasionally for a broader audience and is the co-host of a podcast, The New Thinkery, with his two close friends, Greg McBrayer and David Bahr.