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From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle's DialecticLexington Books. 1999.Scholars of classical philosophy have long disputed whether Aristotle was a dialectical thinker. Most agree that Aristotle contrasts dialectical reasoning with demonstrative reasoning, where the former reasons from generally accepted opinions and the latter reasons from the true and primary. Starting with a grasp on truth, demonstration never relinquishes it. Starting with opinion, how could dialectical reasoning ever reach truth, much less the truth about first principles? Is dialectic then an …Read more
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46Mary Louise Gill, "Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 444. 1992.
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11One and many in Aristotle's MetaphysicsParmenides. 1989.This book is part of a larger study of the problem of the one and the many in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Although this portion can be read and understood on its own, some remarks about the contents of the two sister volumes will be helpful.
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38Kritik über Jedan (2000): Willensfreiheit bei Aristoteles?Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 7 (1): 243-249. 2002.
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6One and Many in Aristotel's 'Metaphysics' Alpha-Delta, Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas 2088Elenchos 30 (1): 177-188. 2009.
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19Aristotle's Political VirtuesThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3 154-161. 1998.This paper argues that Aristotle conceives happiness not primarily as an exercise of virtue in private or with friends, but as the exercise of virtue in governing an ideal state. The best states are knit together so tightly that the interests of one person are the same as the interests of all. Hence, a person who acts for his or her own good must also act for the good of all fellow citizens. It follows that discussions of Aristotle’s altruism and egoism are misconceived.
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3Poetry, History, and DialecticThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3 146-153. 1998.Twice in the Poetics, Aristotle contrasts poetry with history. Whatever its didactic value, the contrast has not seemed to readers of special philosophical interest. The aim of this paper is to show that this contrast is philosophically significant not just for our understanding of tragedy but also for the light it sheds on Aristotle’s overall methodology. I shall show how he uses the method sketched in the Topics to define tragedy and explain why the same method will not define history. In part…Read more
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10One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics: The Central BooksParmenides Publishing. 2005.The problem of the one and the many is central to ancient Greek philosophy, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of it in the Metaphysics. The Central Books of the Metaphysics are widely recognised as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work. This title aims to examine the Central Books.
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3Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (3): 687-688. 1997.Joe Sachs has a refreshing and unusual view of Aristotle's Physics: he thinks that it is a physics. In contrast, most recent writers have seen the work as an exposition of the way nature is spoken and thought about, as metaphysics, or as an anticipation of modern physics. The reason the work is often misunderstood, Sachs maintains, is that translators render it into meaningless terms rooted in medieval Latin translations. Aristotle's own "philosophic vocabulary is... incapable of dogmatic use" b…Read more
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46Colloquium 2 The Metaphysics of the SyllogismProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 33 (1): 31-60. 2018.This paper addresses a central metaphysical issue that has not been recognized: what kind of entity is a syllogism? I argue that the syllogism cannot be merely a mental entity. Some counterpart must exist in nature. A careful examination of the Posterior Analytics’s distinction between the syllogism of the fact and the syllogism of the reasoned fact shows that we must set aside contemporary logic to appreciate Aristotle’s logic, enables us to understand the validity of the scientific syllogism t…Read more
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27Heraclitus and the Possibility of MetaphysicsReview of Metaphysics 70 (3). 2017.Heraclitus is famous for affirming contradictions, though most readers do not regard the content of his fragments as contradictory. Examining fragments 1 and 50, this article argues that Heraclitus aims to assert a special class of contradictions, the intrinsic conflict between the content of any universal metaphysical claim and the assertion or reception of that claim. Such contradictions undermine the possibility of metaphysics as a science that knows all things. Second, the article argues tha…Read more
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18A Tale of Two Metaphysics: Alison Stone's Environmental HegelHegel Bulletin 26 (1-2): 1-12. 2005.
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18Hegel and the Problem of the DifferentiaProceedings of the Hegel Society of America 10 191-202. 1990.
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Unity in Aristotle's "Metaphysics"Dissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1980.Since unity is always explained through something else, it is not primary; it is not the highest cause. Further, secondary unities are not understood through a primary "one"; rather, all ones are understood through being, actuality, etc. Hence, unlike being, unity is not a . In order that "one" function as it does in the Metaphysics it cannot be a . In the second part of the fourth chapter, I discuss Aristotle's definition of "one", and I argue that "one" is analogically defined. ;The final thre…Read more
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TelosIn Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 1999.
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14Torah 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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58Education 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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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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