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69Aristotle’s Theory of Substance (review)Philosophical Review 111 (1): 98-101. 2002.Aristotle's doctrines about accidental predication, Accidental identity, Etc., Can be understood as an attempt to state the same view as russell put forward in his theory of descriptions. "a" is predicated accidentally of b when "a to b" has the sense "something that is a is b." this permits scope distinctions which can solve puzzles like that of the masked man, And sophisms involving tense. Aristotle's claim that accidental being is akin to nonexistence resembles russell's account of the presen…Read more
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194The Metaphysics of GenderOup Usa. 2011.The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.
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3Powers and possibilities: Aristotle vs. the MegariansProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 249-266. 1995.
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222Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2010.Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective.
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13Commentary on CharltonProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 23-26. 1989.
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201Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle’s MetaphysicsCornell University Press. 2003.Aristotle's defense of Dunamis -- Power and potentiality -- Rational and nonrational powers -- The priority of actuality -- Ontological hierarchy, normativity, and gender
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43Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals by Sophia M. ConnellJournal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1): 157-158. 2017.“How can it be that the female is both functional and a failure?”. Sophia Connell’s response comes in the form of a careful, thorough, and philosophically sensitive interpretation of Aristotle’s treatise on animal generation. By pursuing the topic of what Aristotle says about female animals and their role in reproduction, Connell casts light into many difficult corners of his theory: What does it mean to say that the male is the “hê archê [tês] kinêseos” of the generation? How should we think of…Read more
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49Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2): 292-293. 1996.292 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:2 APRIL ~996 Huffman gives an excellent discussion of Philolaus' place in the development of Presocratic discussions of archai and hypotheses; and he reconstructs Philolaus' cosmogony and embryology, showing how Philolaus generates the cosmos and individ- ual living things within it from analogous principles, the central fire of the cosmos and the vital heat of an animal. Huffman places Philolaus' "literally eccentric world-view" in the context of this…Read more
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33Aristotelian Explorations (review)Philosophical Review 107 (4): 597-600. 1998.At one point in this engaging collection of essays, G. E. R. Lloyd describes Aristotle's "sense of the interdependence of philosophical analysis and detailed empirical investigation", a description which fits the author himself. Lloyd is sensitive to the peculiarities of Aristotle's texts without sinking so deeply into their oddities that they lose focus and theoretical interest. With admirable lucidity Lloyd lays out the complex requirements of Aristotle's "official" theory of scientific demons…Read more
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45Metaphysics Θ (J.) Beere Doing and Being. An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta. Pp. xiv + 367. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Cased, £48. ISBN: 978-0-19-920670-4 (review)The Classical Review 61 (2): 413-415. 2011.
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5David Bostock, Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 2 339-343. 2006.A review of David Bostock, Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006
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51Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance: Heat and Pneuma, Form and Soul (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 134-135. 1997.
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2The Priority of actuality in AristotleIn T. Scaltsas, David Charles & Mary Louise Gill (eds.), Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 215--28. 1994.
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1Gender Essentialism: Aristotle or Locke?In Ruth Groff John Greco (ed.), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, Routledge. 2012.
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20Commentary on PriceProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 310-316. 1996.
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43Aristotelian powersIn Ruth Groff (ed.), Revitalizing causality: realism about causality in philosophy and social science, Routledge. 2008.when it is actually heating water; an object is perceptible only when it is actually being 1 perceived-- and so on. But, it is part of the notion of a causal power that it exists whether or not it is active. In order to respond to this challenge Aristotle draws a distinction between two ways of being a power; when it is active the power exists actually; when it is inactive it exists potentially. Contemporary writers have noted that we need a way of understanding powers that includes their presen…Read more
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56Tragic Error and Agent ResponsibilityPhilosophic Exchange 35 (1). 2005.The characters of tragedy are in some sense responsible for their errors. However, given their ignorance of the consequences of their actions, it seems that they ought not be held responsible by others for what they have done. This is a paradox. The way to resolve the paradox is to distinguish two kinds of agent responsibility: accountability and culpability. Being accountable is primarily a private affair, whereas being culpable entails the possibility of just punishment.
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1Dialectic, Motion, and Perception: De Anima Book IIn Martha Craven Nussbaum & Amélie Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's De anima, Oxford University Press. pp. 169--183. 1995 [1992].
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22Aristotle’s Theory of Substance (review)Philosophical Review 111 (1): 98-101. 2002.Michael Wedin’s Aristotle’s Theory of Substance provides an interpretation of primary substance in Metaphysics Book Z that is compatible with the ontology of the Categories. The incompatibilist position holds that primary substance in the Categories is the concrete, individual substance, like Socrates, whereas the title of primary substance in Metaphysics Z goes to the eidos, the form or the species. Hence, the ontology of the Categories is incompatible with the ontology of Metaphysics Z. One co…Read more
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