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20Thinking About the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past (edited book)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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19Jacob Klein on the Dispute Between Plato and Aristotle Regarding NumberNew 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
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2The Logic of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Nature, Space and TimeIn Stephen Houlgate (ed.), Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature, State University of New York Press. pp. 33. 1998.
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1Sheldon M. Cohen, Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (5): 314-316. 1997.
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25Colloquium 3: Metaphysics I and the Difference it Makes1Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 22 (1): 69-110. 2007.
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6One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: The Central Books: The Central BooksParmenides Publishing. 2005.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 on the Possibility of Metaphysics in Le Cratyle de Platon (I)Revue de Philosophie Ancienne 5 (1): 99-131. 1987.
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6Metaphysics: 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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22Aristotle’s Gradations of Being in Metaphysics E–Z (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (4): 625-630. 2009.
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16Torah as political philosophy : Maimonides and Spinoza on religious lawIn Jonathan Jacobs (ed.), Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence, Oxford University Press. pp. 190. 2011.
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16Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle (review)Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 109-113. 1985.
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Symposium: Aristotle's Metaphysics in Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 84 (11): 666-681. 1987.
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A Tale Of Two Metaphysics: Alison Stone's Environmental HegelBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51 1-12. 2005.
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76Aristotle on Knowledge of NatureReview of Metaphysics 37 (4). 1984.IT IS well-known that Plato and Aristotle disagree on the possibility of knowledge of nature. Plato maintains that knowledge, in contrast with belief, is never mistaken, that the objects of knowledge are always the same and never becoming, and that what we sense is always becoming. He concludes that knowledge is possible only of objects that are unchanging and separate from sensibles, i.e., the forms. Aristotle rejects this conclusion and recognizes knowledge of sensibles. Surprisingly, though, …Read more
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13The Logic of Hegel's Philosophy of NatureProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 13 29-49. 1998.
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Hegel's Criticism of Newton'In Frederick C. Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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1Sheldon M. Cohen, Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance (review)Philosophy in Review 17 314-316. 1997.
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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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