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18Review of Naomi Reshotko, Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-nor-Bad (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (1). 2007.
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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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65Plato’s Conception of KnowledgeClassical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 105 (1): 57-75. 2011.
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34Review of Heda Segvic, From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy (review)Ancient Philosophy 30 (2): 420-424. 2010.
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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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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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15Comments on Danielle Macbeth’s Realizing ReasonInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (1): 131-138. 2017.
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79The 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
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |