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9Pleasure and truth inrepublic9Classical Quarterly 63 (1): 110-138. 2013.AtRepublic9, 583b1–587a2, Socrates argues that the pleasure of the philosophical life is the truest pleasure. I will call this the ‘true pleasure argument’. The true pleasure argument is divisible into two parts: 583b1–585a7 and 585a8–587a2. Each part contains a sub-argument, which I will call ‘the misperception argument’ and ‘the true filling argument’ respectively. In the misperception argument Socrates argues that it is characteristic of irrational men to misperceive as pleasant what in fact …Read more
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8On GoodnessOup Usa. 2019.On Goodness attempts to answer the question "What is goodness?" The method it employs to answer this question is linguistic. The central methodological claim of the book is that answering the question "What is goodness?" requires answering the question "What does the word 'goodness' mean?" Consequently, On Goodness is pervasively informed by and critically engaged with ideas and theories in contemporary linguistics.
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6The historical reader of Plato's ProtagorasClassical Quarterly 48 (1): 126-133. 1998.The popular question why Plato wrote dramatic dialogues, which is motivated by a just fascination and perplexity for contemporary scholars about the unique form of the Platonic texts, is confused and anachronistic; for it judges the Platonic texts qua philosophical texts in terms of post–Platonic texts not written in dramatic dialogic form. In comparison with these, the form of Platos early aporetic dialogues is highly unusual. Yet, in its contemporary milieu, the form of Platonic literature is …Read more
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2Aporia in Plato's "Charmides", "Laches", and "Lysis"Dissertation, The University of Chicago. 1997.Plato's Charmides, Laches and Lysis are defined as aporetic in that the investigations conducted by the dramatis personae within these texts are governed by the question, What-is-F?, and by the end of the investigations the interlocutors have failed to reach a mutually satisfactory definition of F. The aim of this study is to explain why Plato composed the Charmides, Laches and Lysis as aporetic. This study suggests that Plato's composition of the Charmides, Laches and Lysis as aporetic was a dr…Read more
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1Empedocles and His Ancient Readers on Desire and PleasureOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36 1-71. 2009.
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1""Comments on Benson:'Socrates' Method of Hypothesis in Meno."'Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 18 127-43. 2003.
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1Socratic philosophizingIn John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates, Continuum. 2013.
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Interpreting Plato's Early DialoguesIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvii: Winter 2004, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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Socrates, Vlastos, and analytic philosophyIn Christopher Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates, Brill. 2019.
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Empedocles and his Ancient Readers on Desire and PleasureIn Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume Xxxvi, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Sophia" and "episteme" in the archaic and classical periodsIn Nicholas D. Smith (ed.), The philosophy of knowledge: a history, Bloomsbury Academic. 2018.
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Hesiod, Prodicus, and the Socraticson Work and PleasureOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 35 1-18. 2008.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |