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Epistemology in Plato's middle dialoguesIn Nicholas D. Smith (ed.), The philosophy of knowledge: a history, Bloomsbury Academic. 2018.
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13Opining beauty itself: the ordinary person and Plato's formsState University of New York Press. 2022.
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26Cosmology and Anankê in the Timaeus and Our Knowledge of the FormsApeiron 55 (4): 509-535. 2022.At Tm. 47e, Timaeus steps back from his discussion of what came about through noûs and turns toward an account of what came about through anankê. Broadie, 2012, Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus, sketches out two routes for the interpretation of this ‘new beginning.’ The ‘metaphysical’ approach uses perceptibles qua imitations of intelligibles in order to glimpse the intelligibles (just as we look at our reflection in a mirror in order to view ourselves). The ‘cosmological’ reading assumes …Read more
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45Opining Beauty Itself in Republic VInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14 (1): 5-22. 2020.In consoling the lover of sights and sounds at Republic 475e4-479d5, Socrates describes a tripartite distinction among knowledge, doxa, and ignorance. Socrates claims that knowledge is ‘over’ what-is, doxa is over what is and is-not, and ignorance is over nothing at all. I argue that Plato shows that doxa and ignorance are also related to what-is. While knowledge, doxa, and ignorance interact with different first-degree objects, these three capacities have a common second-degree object: what-is.…Read more
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Dretske and Socrates: The Development of the Socratic Theme That "All Desire is for the Good" in a Contemporary Analysis of DesireDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1990.I compare two theories of motivation: The Socratic Theory of Motivation and Fred Dretske's attempt to vindicate the use of desires in folk-psychological explanations. I find that, although Socrates ' theory is, at first glance, counterintuitive, while Dretske's provides persuasive analyses of beliefs and desires, there is a way of developing Dretske's theory which produces a theory that is parallel to the Socratic Theory of Motivation. In fact, if we substitute "all desire is for homeostasis" fo…Read more
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39Virtue as the Only Unconditional — But not Intrinsic — GoodAncient Philosophy 21 (2): 325-334. 2001.
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1Socratic eudaimonismIn John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates, Continuum. 2013.
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Gregory Vlastos, ed., Myles Burnyeat, Socratic Studies (review)Philosophy in Review 16 24-27. 1996.
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3Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, The Foundations of Socratic Ethics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (1): 24-27. 1996.
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26Plato on the Ordinary Person and the FormsApeiron 47 (2): 266-292. 2014.Name der Zeitschrift: Apeiron Jahrgang: 47 Heft: 2 Seiten: 266-292
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44Desire, identity, and existence: essays in honor of T.M. Penner (edited book)Academic Print. &. 2003.
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36Do explanatory desire attributions generate opaque contexts?Ratio 9 (2): 153-170. 1996.Many philosophers assert that psychological verbs generate opaque contexts and that the object of a psychological verb cannot be replaced with a co‐referring expression salva veritate as the objects of non‐psychological verbs can be. I argue that the logical and linguistic concerns which govern this assertion do not transfer to observational and experimental situations because the criteria that we use in order to verify that an observed subject has one hypothesized desire rather than another pro…Read more
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Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, The Foundations of Socratic Ethics (review)Philosophy in Review 16 24-27. 1996.
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50Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato. By Sandra Peterson (review)Ancient Philosophy 32 (2): 433-440. 2012.
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120Review: Daniel Russell: Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (review)Mind 117 (465): 218-223. 2008.
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22Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-BadCambridge University Press. 2006.Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory allowed him to demonstrate that actions and objects have no value other than that which they derive from their employment by individuals who, inevitably, desire their own happiness and have the knowledge to use actions and objects as a means for its attainment. The result is a naturalised, practical, and demystified a…Read more
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14Plato’s Anti-Hedonism and the Protagoras by J. Clerk ShawJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (2): 334-335. 2016.Shaw introduces an important and compelling line of argumentation concerning the relationship between pleasure and the good into the literature on Plato’s dialogues with ramifications beyond any commitment that Plato has Socrates make to hedonism at Protagoras 351b–357e. To appreciate Shaw’s argument, the term ‘hedonism’ must be understood to indicate that the good is identical to bodily pleasure—not to both sensate and modal pleasure understood as a dichotomy, and not to all pleasures of the so…Read more
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22Beyond De Re: Toward a Dominance Theory of Desire AttributionPhilosophical Inquiry 31 (1-2): 131-151. 2009.
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33Socrates and Plato on "Sophia, Eudaimonia", and Their FacsimilesHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 26 (1). 2009.
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1Gregory Vlastos, ed., Myles Burnyeat, Socratic Studies Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (1): 24-27. 1996.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Meta-Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |