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17Daniel Davies , Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (6): 450-453. 2012.
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One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books AlphaDelta: Books AlphaDeltaParmenides Publishing. 2009.
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19Aristotle on the Convertibility of One and BeingPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 259-264. 1988.
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40Maimonides on the Scope of Divine and Human Self-KnowledgeQuaestio 15 299-308. 2015.Maimonides’ claim, in Guide of the Perplexed I.68, that our intellect, like God’s, becomes one with the object it knows would seem to be at odds with his injunction to his readers to set their “thought to work on the first intelligible” and to “rejoice in what [it] apprehends”. The former passage supposes that we grasp individual essences by themselves, whereas the latter supposes that such essences are known only through their first cause. Since we cannot grasp the first cause, God, we cannot, …Read more
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31Aristotle's 'Metaphysics': A Reader's GuideContinuum. 2012.Context -- Overview of themes -- Reading the text -- Reception and influence.
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38The Rationality of BeingReview of Metaphysics 68 (3): 487-520. 2015.This paper explores two issues: (1) how our thought about nature could reflect natural processes, and (2) how our thoughts about nature are connected with each other. It argues, first, that the standard ways philosophers try to make sense of the notion that thought is separate from nature cannot be made intelligible and, second, that the conceptual schemes used to grasp nature fall broadly into two groups each of which presupposes the other, even though the two are incompatible. Although these c…Read more
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27Klein and CassirerJournal of Speculative Philosophy 29 (2): 194-217. 2015.ABSTRACT In Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Jacob Klein contrasts ancient Greek philosophy's direct engagement with things through arithmetic with the ancient science of numeric calculation, logistic. By chronicling the later development of logistic, by means of increasing symbolization, ultimately into algebra, he argues that logistic has come to displace arithmetic and, thereby, to submerge the ontological issues at the center of Greek thought. This article argues, first,…Read more
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22The Foundation of Aristotle’s Categorial Scheme (review)Ancient Philosophy 30 (2): 452-455. 2010.
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9Form and Reason: Essays in MetaphysicsState University of New York Press. 1993.Many of the essays have been presented, in early or shorter versions, at various conferences. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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35Self-Relation in Hegel’s Science of LogicPhilosophy Research Archives 7 89-133. 1981.This paper uses self-relation to reconstruct Hegel's reasoning in the Logic. In the sphere of "being," selfrelation is self-predication, and the predicate is the active, participial form of the category. Examining the first three and the last category in this sphere, I explain how Hegel argues that each category is itself engaged in the activity that it signifies. However, this self-predication adds new content to the category transforming it into a new category. Ultimately, this process leads t…Read more
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102Humor, Dialectic, and Human Nature in PlatoEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2): 319-330. 2011.Drawing principally on the Symposium, this paper argues that humor in Plato’s dialogues serves two serious purposes. First, Plato uses puns and other devices to disarm the reader’s defenses and thereby allow her to consider philosophical ideas that she would otherwise dismiss. Second, insofar as human beings can only be understood through unchanging forms that we fail to attain, our lives are discontinuous and only partly intelligible. Since, though, the discontinuity between expectation and act…Read more
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93Spinoza on the Political Value of Freedom of ReligionHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 21 (2): 167-182. 2004.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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