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20Review of David L. Perry, The Concept of Pleasure (review)Philosophical Books 9 (1): 19-21. 1968.
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32The Charmides - Berndt Witte: Die Wissenschaft vom Guten und Bösen: Interpretationen zu Platons ‘Charmides’. (Unters. z. Ant. Lit. u. Gesch., 5.) Pp. vii+166. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1970. Cloth, DM. 48 (review)The Classical Review 22 (02): 196-198. 1972.
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30The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to FoucaultPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 423. 2000.From his own day to the present Socrates has presented a challenge to philosophers and commentators, a challenge at once of a puzzle to be solved and of an ideal to be continually reshaped in response to the demands of shifting historical perspectives. Alexander Nehamas’s intriguing book combines discussion of this ongoing process, specifically of responses to Socrates by Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault, with exemplification of it via his own response to Socrates. The focus of these responses…Read more
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35Socratic Perplexity and the nature of philosophy (review)Ancient Philosophy 20 (2): 451-454. 2000.
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45Studies in greek philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. Volume I The Presocratics pp. xxxiv + 389; Volume II Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition pp. xxiv + 349. 40 per volume (hb.), ISBN 0-691-03310-2, 0-691-03311-0; 14.50 per volume (pb.), ISBN 0-691-01937-1, 0-691-01938-X.
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30Plato on Punishment Mary Margaret Mackenzie: Plato on Punishment. Pp. x + 278. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1981. £17.25 (review)The Classical Review 32 (02): 198-200. 1982.
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68Plato, Hare and Davidson on akrasiaMind 89 (356): 499-518. 1980.Davidson poses the problem via three propositions p1-P3, Each persuasive but apparently inconsistent. His solution, That the three are consistent, Merely re-Phrases the problem. We should rather reject p2; if an agent judges that it would be better to do "x" than to do "y", Then he wants to do "x" more than he wants to do "y". Plato accepts p2 because he thinks all agents predominantly self-Interested, And hare because he thinks that evaluative judgments imply desires; both are criticized. An al…Read more
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193Berkeley's theory of abstract ideasPhilosophical Quarterly 28 (111): 97-115. 1978.While claiming to refute locke's theory of abstract ideas, Berkeley himself accepts a form of abstractionism. Locke's account of abstraction is indeterminate between two doctrines: 1) abstract ideas are representations of paradigm instances of kinds, 2) abstract ideas are schematic representations of the defining features of kinds. Berkeley's arguments are directed exclusively against 2, And refute only a specific version of it, Which there is no reason to ascribe to locke; berkeley himself acce…Read more
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13Applying a Women’s Health Lens to the Study of the Aging BrainFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 13 468826. 2019.A major challenge in neuroscience is to understand what happens to a brain as it ages. Such insights could make it possible to distinguish between individuals who will undergo typical aging and those at risk for neurodegenerative disease. Over the last quarter century, thousands of human brain imaging studies have probed the neural basis of age-related cognitive decline. “Aging” studies generally enroll adults over the age of 65, a historical precedent rooted in the average retirement age of U.S…Read more