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13Aristotle’s Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics ZetaPhilosophical Quarterly 52 (207): 256-258. 2002.
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11Nozick on Explaining NothingPhilosophy Research Archives 10 337-346. 1984.This paper raises some difficulties with the strategy suggested in Robert Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations for explaining why there is something rather than nothing. I am concerned less with his adoption of an egalitarian, as opposed to inegalitarian, explanatory stance (the net effect of which is to detach for independent consideration the question, “Why is there something?”) than with his use of a crucial assumption in reasoning from the egalitarian point of view. I argue that this assumpti…Read more
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52. Subjects and Substance in Metaphysics Z 3In Christof Rapp (ed.), Aristoteles: Metaphysik. Die Substanzbücher (Z, H, Θ), Akademie Verlag. pp. 41-73. 1996.
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5Criss-crossing a Philosophical LandscapeGrazer Philosophische Studien 42 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions and the picture theory of the proposition or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition cannot cau…Read more
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5The Science and Axioms of BeingIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Aristotle's Declaration of a General Science of Being qua Being A Problem for the Science of Being The Content of the General Science of Being Including Axioms in the General Science of Being The Notion of the Firmest Principle Proving Something about an Axiom: the Indubitability Proof of PNC PNC as the Ultimate Principle Defending an Axiom: the Elenctic Proof of PNC Theology and the General Science of Being Notes Bibliography.
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5On the use and abuse of non-contradiction: Aristotle's critique of Protagoras and Heraclitus in Metaphysics gamma 5Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 213-239. 2004.
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3Tracking Aristotle's noûsIn Michael Durrant & Aristotle (eds.), Aristotle's de Anima in Focus, Routledge. 1993.
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2Animadversions on Burnyeat's Theaetetus: On the Logic of the Exquisite ArgumentOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 29 171-191. 2005.
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1On the Use and Abuse of Non-Contradiction: Aristotle's Critique of Protagoras and Heraclitus in Metaphysics Gamma 5In David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvi: Summer 2004, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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Taking Stock of the Central Books: A Review of Aristotle: Metaphysics, Books Z and H, trans. with Commentary by David Bostock (review)Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 14 241-271. 1996.
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Singular Statements and Essentialism in AristotleCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 10 (n/a): 67. 1984.
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Animadversions on Burnyeat's Theaetetus: On the Logic of the Exquisite ArgumentIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxix: Winter 2005, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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Human Nature and Natural Knowledge. Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth BirthdayBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 89 3-381. 1986.
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Parmendies' Three Ways and the Failure of the Ionian InterpretationOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 41 1-65. 2011.
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Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |