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25Peter Lombard (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 140-142. 1996.14o JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34: X.JANUARY t996 method of reading the dialogues in an ascending order of philosophical importance need not be reflected completely or consistently in the tetralogical scheme. I pass over the account of Thrasyllus' logos-theory which Tarrant derives from an elusive section of Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics in order to discuss the more important conclusions he draws in chapter 6, "The Neopythagorean Parmenides." By carefully sifting passage…Read more
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34Emotion and peace of mind: From stoic agitation to Christian temptation. Richard Sorabji oxford: Oxford university press, 2000. Pp. XI, 499. (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (1). 2005.The last decade has witnessed a dramatic revival of interest in Hellenistic philosophy. No longer can one complain that scholars pitch their tents on Aristotelian turf and refuse to move beyond it. Indeed, the burgeoning literature on Hellenistic philosophy might now raise doubts about whether an author breaks any new ground. Sorabji's latest book analyzes many of the same texts and issues explored in Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire ; and he, too, argues that ancient philosophical therap…Read more
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70Aquinas and weakness of willPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (1). 2007.Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of hirn, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas rarely even mentions the weakness of the will, and he neverinvokes it to explain why someone acts counter to her own better judgment. In his vie…Read more
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51Disputed Questions on Virtue (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (4): 613-614. 2012.
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21Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 378-380. 2012.
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52Augustine's On the Good of Marriage and Infused Virtue in the Twelfth CenturyJournal of Religious Ethics 41 (1): 112-136. 2013.In the history of ethics, it remains remains unclear how Christians of the Middle Ages came to see God-given virtues as dispositions (habitus) created in the human soul. Patristic works could surely support other conceptions of the virtues given by grace. For example, one might argue that all such virtues are forms of charity, so that they must be affections of the soul, or that they consist in what the soul does, not anything the soul has. Scholars usually assume that the explanation lies in th…Read more
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1412 Rethinking Moral DispositionsIn Thomas Williams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus, Cambridge University Press. pp. 352. 2003.
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25Emotion and Peace of Mind (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (1): 245-247. 2005.
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26Aquinas and Weakness of WillPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (1): 70-91. 2007.Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of him, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas rarely even mentions the weakness of the will, and he never invokes it to explain why someone acts counter to her own better judgment. In his vie…Read more
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