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    Spinoza on the Political Value of Freedom of Religion
    The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 2 37-44. 2006.
    The last chapter of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (TTP) is a brief for freedom of religion. In our enthusiasm for Spinoza's conclusion it is easy to overlook the blatant contradiction between this thesis and the central claim of the immediately preceding chapter that "right over matters of religion is vested entirely in the sovereign." There Spinoza emphasizes the necessity that there be but one sovereign in the state and the threat that autonomous religious authorities would pose to …Read more
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    Aristotle's Solution to the Problem of Sensible Substance
    Journal of Philosophy 84 (11): 666-672. 1987.
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    Plato on the Rationality of Nature
    Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 18 (1-2). 2007.
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    Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 & 3 by William E. Dooley & Arthur Madigan (review)
    Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 88 63-64. 1994.
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    Metaphysics Z 12 and H 6
    Ancient Philosophy 4 (2): 146-159. 1984.
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    Thinking About the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past (edited book)
    with Alan Holland, Madonna R. Adams, Giovanni Casertano, Lynda G. Clarke, Michael W. Herren, Helen Karabatzaki, Emile F. Kutash, Teresa Kwiatkowska, Parviz Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, Lorina Quartarone, Livio Rossetti, Daryl M. Tress, Valentina Vincenti, and Hideya Yamakawa
    Lexington Books. 2002.
    Why should the work of the ancient and the medievals, so far as it relates to nature, still be of interest and an inspiration to us now? The contributions to this enlightening volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship's debt to the classical and medieval past. Thinking About the Environment synthesizes religious thought and environmental theory to trace a trajectory from Mesopotamian mythology and classical and Hellenistic Greek, through classical Latin writers, to medieval Christian v…Read more
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    Jacob Klein on the Dispute Between Plato and Aristotle Regarding Number
    New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 11 249-270. 2011.
    By examining Klein’s discussion of the difference between Plato and Aristotle regarding the ontology of number, this article aims to spells out the significanceof that debate both in itself and for the development of the later mathematical sciences. This is accomplished by explicating and expanding Klein’s account of the differences that exist in the understanding of number presented by these two thinkers. It is ultimately argued that Klein’s analysis can be used to show that the transition from…Read more
  •  19
    Colloquium 3: Metaphysics I and the Difference it Makes1
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 69-110. 2007.
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    Uses the problem of the one and the many as a lens through which to examine the Central Books of Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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    Aristotle’s Gradations of Being in Metaphysics E–Z (review)
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (4): 625-630. 2009.
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    Metaphysics: Book B and Book K 1–2 (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 57 (2): 383-385. 2003.
    In the first lines of Metaphysics 3, Aristotle argues that any progress in this discipline hinges on carefully working through the problems peculiar to it, the metaphysical aporiai; and he devotes all of book 3 to drawing up these problems. Despite this warning, book 3 and its doublet, book 11.1–2, have received relatively little attention. Many of the problems Aristotle sets out here are not addressed explicitly elsewhere in the Metaphysics, their discussion in book 3 is inconclusive, and most …Read more
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    Is creativity good?
    British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1): 47-56. 1989.