Mateo Duque is an assistant professor in Binghamton University’s Philosophy Department. He received his PhD in 2020 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was born in Colombia, South America, and grew up in the United States.
Duque has been at Binghamton University since 2020, first as a Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) and currently as an assistant professor. His areas of research and teaching include ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly Plato, as well as aesthetics, theater, comedy and performance, and philosophy as a way of life. He is the co-editor (with Gerald A. Press) o…
Mateo Duque is an assistant professor in Binghamton University’s Philosophy Department. He received his PhD in 2020 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was born in Colombia, South America, and grew up in the United States.
Duque has been at Binghamton University since 2020, first as a Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) and currently as an assistant professor. His areas of research and teaching include ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly Plato, as well as aesthetics, theater, comedy and performance, and philosophy as a way of life. He is the co-editor (with Gerald A. Press) of "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato" (2023). He is at work on a monograph on what he calls “Socratic Mimēsis,” the moments in the Platonic dialogues when Socrates relinquishes speaking in his own voice and speaks in another persona. Socrates’ dramatic performances are a method for teaching indirectly and it is a necessary complement to his more well-known method of dialectic.
Duque chose the field of philosophy because it allows him to read, think and write about many different subjects. Besides his main areas of specialization and concentration, Duque has many other interests. He is versed in continental or European philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Camus, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari). He also has an abiding interest in American philosophy and pragmatism (James, Pierce, Dewey, Quine, West and Rorty). While at Binghamton, he has also been able to delve deeper into Buddhist philosophy with the help of Charles Goodman and his graduate students in a Buddhist philosophy reading group for several years.
