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52Aristotle'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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15(University of New Hampshire, USA)In Lilli Alanen & Charlotte Witt (eds.), Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 55. 2004.
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71Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (7). 2008.
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286Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2004.Feminist work in the history of philosophy has come of age as an innovative field in the history of philosophy. This volume marks that accomplishment with original essays by leading feminist scholars who ask basic questions: What is distinctive of feminist work in the history of philosophy? Is there a method that is distinctive of feminist historical work? How can women philosophers be meaningfully included in the history of the discipline? Who counts as a philosopher? This collection is a uniqu…Read more
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1Teleology in Aristotelian Science and MetaphysicsIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in ancient philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. 1997.
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20Power, activity, and beingIn Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxxv: Winter 2008, Oxford University Press. pp. 35--293. 2008.
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197Feminist history of philosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.The past twenty five years have seen an explosion of feminist writing on the philosophical canon, a development that has clear parallels in other disciplines like literature and art history. Since most of the writing is, in one way or another, critical of the tradition, a natural question to ask is: Why does the history of philosophy have importance for feminist philosophers? This question assumes that the history of philosophy is of importance for feminists, an assumption that is warranted by t…Read more
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14Colloquium 7Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 (1): 249-266. 1995.
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126Aristotle on Deformed Animal KindsOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 43 83. 2012.There is a surprising number of deformed animal kinds mentioned in Aristotle’s biological works. The number is surprising because, according to the standard understanding of deformed animals in Aristotle, it should be zero. And the number is significant because there are just too many deformed kinds at too many classificatory levels mentioned in too many works to dismiss them as a minor aberration or as an infiltration of folk belief into biology proper. This paper has two goals. The first is to…Read more
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