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54Doing and Being. An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics ThetaPhilosophical Quarterly 66 (263): 411-414. 2016.Review of Jonathan Beere's book.
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Virtues and intentions-Approach to learn a virtuous concept from AnscombePhilosophisches Jahrbuch 115 (1): 165-183. 2008.Intentions are not events that cause an action, but that in terms of which we describe and action when we describe it as intentionally. Likewise, virtues are not character traits that reliably cause certain behaviour, but that in terms of which we describe certain generic behaviour.
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37Science, conscience, consciousnessHistory of the Human Sciences 23 (3): 15-28. 2010.Descartes’ metaphysics lays the foundation for the special sciences, and the notion of consciousness (conscientia) belongs to metaphysics rather than to psychology. I argue that as a metaphysical notion, ‘consciousness’ refers to an epistemic version of moral conscience. As a consequence, the activity on which science is based turns out to be conscientious thought. The consciousness that makes science possible is a double awareness: the awareness of what one is thinking, of what one should be do…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
| Self-Knowledge |
| Metaphysics |
| Plato |
| Aristotle |
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