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27Social Goodness: The Ontology of Social NormsOUP Usa. 2023.We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness presents an original, externalist answer to the question of the source or origin of social role normativity. Rather than …Read more
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26Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-IxCornell University Press. 1989.Substance and Essence in Aristotle is a close study of Aristotle's most profound—and perplexing—treatise: Books VII-IX of the Metaphysics. These central books, which focus on the nature of substance, have gained a deserved reputation for their difficulty, inconclusiveness, and internal inconsistency. Despite these problems, Witt extracts from Aristotle's text a coherent and provocative view about sensible substance by focusing on Aristotle's account of form or essence. After exploring the contex…Read more
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25Aristotle's Classification of Animals: Biology and the Conceptual Unity of the Aristotelian Corpus (review)Philosophical Review 98 (4): 543-544. 1989.
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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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20Commentary on PriceProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 310-316. 1996.
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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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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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15AcknowledgmentsIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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14Colloquium 7Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 (1): 249-266. 1995.
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13Commentary on CharltonProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 23-26. 1989.
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11Chapter 4. the nature and function of essenceIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 101-142. 2018.
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11Chapter 2. being and substanceIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 38-62. 2018.
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10IntroductionIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-5. 2018.
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9IndexIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 199-203. 2018.
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8Chapter 3. the metaphysical structure of sensible substancesIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 63-100. 2018.
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8Chapter 5. the ontological status of essenceIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 143-179. 2018.
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7Chapter 6. Aristotle and KripkeIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 180-198. 2018.
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6Family, Self and Society: A Critique of the Bionormative Conception of the FamilyIn Carolyn MacLeod Francois Baylis (ed.), Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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6Chapter 1. BEINGIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. pp. 6-37. 2018.
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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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5ContentsIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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4FrontmatterIn Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" Vii-Ix, Cornell University Press. 2018.
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