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377Aristotle on Causation - (F.) Fronterotta (ed.) La scienza e le cause a partire dalla Metafisica di Aristotele. (Elenchos 54.) Pp. 457. Naples: Bibliopolis, 2010. Paper, €50. ISBN: 978-88-7088-582-8 (review)The Classical Review 62 (2): 418-420. 2012.
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245Causes as powers: Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum: Getting causes from powers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 272pp, £35 HB (review)Metascience 22 (3): 545-559. 2013.
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Potenza, Materia e Forma Nella Metafisica di AristotelePhilosophical News 5. 2012.In this paper I investigate Aristotle’s power ontology, and of it argue for a new interpretation of his hylemorphism and theory of the four causes
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300It's a Colorful WorldAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1). 2006.Abstract: I defend the intuition that the phenomenology of our experience is right in attributing the colors we see to objects; but although colors are properties of objects, they are constitutively dependent on the perceiver’s experiences. I offer a metaphysical account for this primitivist intuition, in response to David Chalmers’ arguments against it, drawing inspiration from Aristotle’s theory of causation.
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58Composition Models of the Incarnation: Unity and Unifying RelationsReligious Studies 46 (4). 2010.In this paper we investigate composition models of incarnation, according to which Christ is a compound of qualitatively and numerically different constituents. We focus on three-part models, according to which Christ is composed of a divine mind, a human mind, and a human body. We consider four possible relational structures that the three components could form. We argue that a ’hierarchy of natures’ model, in which the human mind and body are united to each other in the normal way, and in whic…Read more
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19The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.This volume focuses on the authorial voice in antiquity, exploring the different ways in which authors presented and projected various personas. In particular, it questions authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice, and considers how later readers and authors may have understood the authority of a text's author.
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123The Metaphysics of the Incarnation (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2011.This book offers original essays by leading philosophers of religion representing these new approaches to theological problems such as incarnation.
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28La nozione aristotelica di 'per sé' e la tradizione esegeticaDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 11 1-34. 2000.Abstract: I examine the different classifications of the various senses of per se which Aristotle offers in his logical works and in his Metaphysics, and propose an original account of them explaining their interrelations.
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452Do powers have powers? More urgently, do powers need further powers to do what powers do? Stathis Psillos says they do. He finds this a fatal flaw in the nature of pure powers: pure powers have a regressive nature. Their nature is incoherent to us, and they should not be admitted into the ontology. I argue that pure powers do not need further powers; rather, they do what they do because they are powers. I show that at the heart of Psillos’ regress is a metaphysical division he assumes between a …Read more
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56Aristotle on Perceiving ObjectsOup Usa. 2014.How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience? What is it that we perceive? How is it that we perceive objects and not disjoint arrays of properties? By which sense or senses do we perceive objects? This book investigates Aristotle's views on these and related questions.
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3In Being One Only One? The Argument for the Uniqueness of the Platonic FormsApeiron (4): 211-227. 2008.‘Is being one only one? – The Argument for the Uniqueness of Platonic Forms’ Abstract: Each Form is unique in number; no two numerically distinct Forms can share the same nature. Plato argues for this claim in Republic X. I identify the metaphysical principles Plato presupposes in the premises of the argument, by examining the reasoning behind them, and offer a reconstruction of the argument showing the principles in use. I argue that the metaphysical significance of the argument’s conclusion is…Read more
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803Is Being One Only One? The Uniqueness of Platonic FormsApeiron 41 (4): 211-228. 2008.I am interested in examining the reasoning of Plato’s extremely condensed argument in Republic X for the uniqueness of Forms. I will explore the metaphysical principles and assumptions that are supplied in the text, or need to be presupposed in order to understand the reasoning in the argument. Further, I will reflect on the truth and philosophical significance of its conclusion.
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364Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Theta, by Jonathan Beere.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 119 (476): 1138-1141. 2010.
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736The Union of Cause and Effect in Aristotle: Physics III 3Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 32 205-232. 2007.‘The Union of Cause and Effect in Aristotle : Physics III 3’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 32, pp. 205-232, May 2007.: I argue that Aristotle introduced a unique realist account of causation, which has not hitherto been appreciated in the history of philosophy: causal realism without a causal relation. In his account, cause and effect are unified by the ectopic actualization of the agent’s potentiality in the patient. His solution consists in the introduction of a property that belongs …Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |