Melissa Lane is a
full professor of politics at
Princeton University,[1] a position she has held since 2009.[2] Prior to this, she was a Senior Research
Fellow[2] of
King's College, Cambridge and Associate Director of their Centre for History and Economics. She was a lecturer at Cambridge from 1994 to 2009.[2] Her expertise is in political theory.[3]
"The evolution of eironeia in classical Greek texts: why Socratic eironeia is not Socratic irony", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2006) 49–83.
"Argument and Agreement in Plato’s Crito", History of Political Thought 19:3 (1998) 313–330.
"The utopianism of Hamilton’s state of needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politics", South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (2006) 207–213.
"Why History of Ideas At All?", History of European Ideas 28:1–2 (2002) 33–41.
"States of Nature, Epistemic and Political", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1998–1999) 1–24.
"Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?", History of Philosophy Quarterly 16:2 (April 1999) 119-42