Gabriela Carone was known for her influential work in ancient Greek philosophy, especially on Plato’s moral psychology, ethics, and cosmology. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at King’s College London in 1995 under the direction of Richard Sorabji, after obtaining her BA at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She won a British Council Award for her doctoral studies and received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004. She spent one year at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow (2003-4), followed by another year at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (2004-5). In addition to many influential articles in recognized ancient philosophy journals, such as Phronesis and Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, she is the author of Plato’s Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions (Cambridge University Press, 2005; translated into Portuguese as A cosmologia de Platão e suas dimensões éticas, 2008). She is also the author of La Noción de Dios en el Timeo de Platón (with a second edition with Academia Verlag, Germany, 2010). Her third book on the philosophy of tango is forthcoming posthumously with Palgrave Macmillan. An academic at heart, Gabriela never lost her passion for the study of Plato. She was a brilliant scholar and teacher, and her work continues to be read, admired, and cited by Plato scholars worldwide. I will miss Gabriela and our conversations dearly. She was an inspiration and a true friend.
Patricia Marechal