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178Relations as Plural-Predications in PlatoStudia Neoaristotelica 10 (1): 28-49. 2013.Plato was the first philosopher to discover the metaphysical phenomenon of plural-subjects and plural-predication; e.g. you and I are two, but neither you, nor I are two. I argue that Plato devised an ontology for plural-predication through his Theory of Forms, namely, plural-partaking in a Form. Furthermore, I argue that Plato used plural-partaking to offer an ontology of related individuals without reifying relations. My contention is that Plato’s theory of plural-relatives has evaded detectio…Read more
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24Commentary on GotthelfProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 4 (1): 140-147. 1988.
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83Substances and universals in Aristotle's MetaphysicsCornell University Press. 1997.The Theme A substance is a composite particular. If it is composed of further particulars, will the substance itself be one or many? ...
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28Mixing the ElementsIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 242-259. 2009.Forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, 2008.
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2'Socratic Moral Realism: An Alternative JustificationOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 7 129-50. 1989.
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82Reciprocal Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean EthicsArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 77 (3): 248-262. 1995.
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1Mixed determinates : Pleasure, good, and truthIn Timothy Chappell (ed.), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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54Good, Reason and Objectivity in AristotleIn D. Koutras (ed.), Aristotelian Ethics and Its Influence, . pp. 292-305. 1996.In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle begins his investigation by exploring the nature of the end of all action. In the very first sentence of the work he says: "Every art and every enquiry and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim". It is easy, says Aristotle, to find verbal agreement between people regarding that good because they all consider it to be happiness. Aristotle says: …Read more
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101The Logic of the Dilemma of Participation and of the Third Man ArgumentApeiron 22 (4). 1989.In this paper i offer a detailed analysis of the dilemma of participation (parmenides, 130e-131e), in which plato considers the consequences of participation in the whole, and in a part of, a form. This analysis explains, in contrast to existing interpretations of the argument, plato's claim that participation in parts of a form is incompatible with the uniqueness of the form, and his modal claim that becoming equal by possessing part of the equal is absurd. In the second part of the paper, i gi…Read more
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Substance and Universals in Aristotle's MetaphysicsPhilosophical Quarterly 47 (189): 536-539. 1997.
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30Primary Ousia: An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and HPhilosophical Books 33 (3): 139-142. 1992.
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159Knowledge as 'True Belief Plus Individuation' in PlatoTopoi 31 (2): 137-149. 2012.In Republic V, Plato distinguishes two different cognitive powers, knowledge and belief, which operate differently on different types of object. I argue that in Republic VI Plato modifies this account, and claims that there is a single cognitive power, which under different circumstances behaves either as knowledge or as belief. I show that the circumstances which turn true belief into knowledge are the provision of an individuation account of the object of belief, which reveals the ontological …Read more
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3Sharing a propertyIn Lindsay Judson & Vassilis Karasmanis (eds.), Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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