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49Trials of reason: Plato and the crafting of philosophyOxford University Press. 2008.Interpretation -- Introduction -- Interpreting Plato -- The political culture of Plato's early dialogues -- Dialogue -- Character and history -- The mouthpiece principle -- Forms of evidence -- Desire -- Socrates and eros -- The subjectivist conception of desire -- Instrumental and terminal desire -- Rational and irrational desires -- Desire in the critique of Akrasia -- Interpreting Lysis -- The deficiency conception of desire -- Inauthentic friendship -- Platonic desire -- Antiphilosophical de…Read more
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84Socrates' Avowals of KnowledgePhronesis 49 (2): 75-142. 2004.The paper examines Socrates' avowals and disavowals of knowledge in the standardly accepted early Platonic dialogues. All of the pertinent passages are assembled and discussed. It is shown that, in particular, alleged avowals of knowledge have been variously misinterpreted. The evidence either does not concern ethical knowledge or its interpretation has been distorted by abstraction of the passage from context or through failure adequately to appreciate the rhetorical dimensions of the context o…Read more
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15Comments on Danielle Macbeth’s Realizing ReasonInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (1): 131-138. 2017.
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38Weiss (R.) The Socratic Paradox and its Enemies. Pp. xii + 235. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Cased, £22.50, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-226-89172- (review)The Classical Review 58 (1): 72-74. 2008.
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78The Method εξ υποεσεως at Meno 86e1-87d8Phronesis 53 (1): 35-64. 2008.Scholars ubiquitously refer to the method εξ υποθεσεως, introduced at Meno 86e1-87d8, as a method of hypothesis. In contrast, this paper argues that the method εξ υποθεσεως in Meno is not a hypothetical method. On the contrary, in the Meno passage, υποθεσις means “postulate”, that is, cognitively secure proposition. Furthermore, the method εξ υποθεσεως is derived from the method of geometrical analysis. More precisely, it is derived from the use of geometrical analysis to achieve reduction, that…Read more
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72Pleasure in Ancient Greek PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2012.The Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy that remain of philosophical interest today. In this volume Professor Wolfsdorf undertakes the first exploration of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure in relation to contemporary conceptions. He provides broad coverage of the ancient material, from pre-Platonic to Old Stoic treatments; and, in the contemporary …Read more
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86The Ridiculousness of Being Overcome by Pleasure: Protagoras 352b1–358d4.''Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 113-36. 2006.
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1Socratic philosophizingIn John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates, Continuum. 2013.
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23Review of Daniel C. Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (6). 2006.
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30Hesiod, prodicus, and the socratics on work and pleasureIn Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxxv: Winter 2008, Oxford University Press. pp. 35--1. 2008.
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1Empedocles and His Ancient Readers on Desire and PleasureOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36 1-71. 2009.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |