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31Timaean ParticularsClassical Quarterly 42 (1): 87-113. 1992.At 47e–53c of the Timaeus Plato presents his most detailed metaphysical analysis of particulars. We are told about the construction of the physical universe, the ways we can and cannot talk about the phenomena produced, and about the two causes – Necessity and Intelligence – which govern the processes and results of production. It seems to me that we are told too much and too little: too much, because we have two accounts of the generation of phenomenal particulars – one, the ‘formal account’, w…Read more
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ContentsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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1NotesIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 311-366. 2009.
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5Chapter four. Refining the theory of formsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 104-136. 2009.
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13Review of Gretchen J. reydams-schils (ed.), Plato's Timaeus As Cultural Icon (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (7). 2003.
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5Plato's Cratylus: The Naming of Nature and the Nature of NamingIn Julia Annas (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume X: 1992, Clarendon Press. pp. 25-71. 1992.
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20Language (review)Philosophical Review 105 (2): 241-243. 1996.Language is the third in a series of volumes edited by Stephen Everson devoted to the examination of a special topic in philosophy from its origins in the pre-Socratic thinkers through to Late Antiquity. In keeping with its predecessors, Epistemology and Psychology, this is a collection of essays whose audience is primarily Anglo-American philosophers of an analytic bent. “This new series of Companions is intended particularly for students of ancient thought who will be reading the texts in tran…Read more
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1Chapter seven. The nature of material particularsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 218-284. 2009.
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1ConclusionIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 285-298. 2009.
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11AbbreviationsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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20Plato on Perception and ‘Commons’Classical Quarterly 40 (1): 148-175. 1990.On the face of it, Plato's treatment of aisthesis is decidedly ambiguous. Sometimes he treats aisthesis as a faculty which, though distinct from all rational capacities, is nonetheless capable of forming judgments such as ‘This stick is bent’ or ‘The same thing is hard and soft’. In the Theaetetus, however, he appears to separate aisthesis from judgment, isolating the former from all prepositional, identificatory and recognitional capacities. The dilemma is easily expressed: Is perception a judg…Read more
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PrefaceIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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General IndexIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 387-393. 2009.
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Chapter one. An overview of platonic metaphysicsIn The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press. pp. 13-27. 2009.
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