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A human being like any other, like no other+ south-african apartheidPhilosophical Forum 18 (2-3): 124-136. 1987.
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62On Wittgenstein: The Language-Game and LinguisticsAuslegung 3 (2): 75-82. 1976.Wittgenstein was not the "anti-philosopher" he is so often characterized as having been. this short paper points out inadequacies in some of the traditional views of wittgenstein's philosophy. it then suggests a more positive view of what wittgenstein believed the object of philosophy ought to be: in short, the language-game conceived as human activity, object and linguistic sign, mediated by the rules of grammar. finally, to provide an example of one of the ways in which philosophy might procee…Read more
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40Colloquium 3: Two Dogmas Of PlatonismProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 28 (1): 77-101. 2013.Contemporary platonism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is the belief in a fundamental cleavage between intelligible but invisible Platonic forms that are real and eternal, and perceptible objects whose confinement to spacetime constitutes an inferior existence and about which knowledge is impossible. The other dogma involves a kind of reductionism: the belief that Plato's unhypothetical first principle of the all is identical to the form of the good. Both dogmas, I argue…Read more
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102Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2006.In his Symposium, Plato crafted speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. But questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. Here, an international team of scholars addresses such questions.
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1Teaching Plato in South African UniversitiesSouth African Journal of Philosophy 8 (2): 100-117. 1989.
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2Metaphysics at the barricades : Spinoza and raceIn Andrew Valls (ed.), Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy, Cornell University Press. 2005.
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Areas of Specialization
Classical Greek Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |