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12The Forms in the RepublicIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 234-262. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: On What the Forms Are: the Present State of the Question Sketch of the View to be Offered Here Plan of this Discussion of the Forms The Republic's Project as a Whole The First Group of Passages on the Forms (V.472b—e with 454a–456c) The Second Group of Passages (X.596a–602b) The Third Group of Passages on the Forms (V.475e–480b, VI.484b–485b, 486d‐e, 490a—b, 493e–494a, 500b–502d) The Fourth Group of Passages (VI.502c‐VII.541b: Sun, Line, and Cave) as Describ…Read more
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11The Ascent from Nominalism: Some Existence Arguments in Plato's Middle DialoguesSpringer Verlag. 1987.divisibility in Physics VI. I had been assuming at that time that Aristotle's elimination of reference to the infinitely large in his account of the potential inf inite--like the elimination of the infinitely small from nineteenth century accounts of limits and continuity--gave us everything that was important in a theory of the infinite. Hilbert's paper showed me that this was not obviously so. Suddenly other certainties about Aristotle's (apparently) judicious toning down of (supposed) Platoni…Read more
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1SocratesIn C. J. Rowe Malcolm Schofield (ed.), Cambridge History of Ancient Political Thought, . pp. 164-189. 2000.
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51Two notes on the Crito: the impotence of the many, and 'persuade or obey'Classical Quarterly 47 (01): 133-146. 1997.So far, interpreters have not made the import of this last clause clear. F. J. Church translates the last phrase ‘they act at random’. Burnet says of Adam that he seems to have been the first to point out that the meaning cannot be ‘they act at random’. Instead, ‘the phrase expresses indifference’. Adam′s idea, which Burnet here commends, is that the many are thoughtless in their treatment of the individual; and Adam compares 48C below: the many would lightly put someone to death and just as lig…Read more
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2Seeking freedom from the Fregean under the description methodologyIn G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), "Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian studies" Essays in honnor of Gerasimos Santas, . pp. 103-124. 2011.
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Plato's Ethics: Early and Middle DialoguesIn P. Pellegrin M. L. Gill (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato, . pp. 151-169. 2006.
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184What Laches and Nicias Miss-And Whether Socrates Thinks Courage Merely a Part of VirtueAncient Philosophy 12 (1): 1-27. 1992.
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356The Forms, the Form of the Good, and the Desire for Good in Plato’s RepublicModern Schoolman 80 (3): 191-233. 2003.
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The Ascent from Nominalism Some Existence Argument in Plato's Middle DialoguesStudia Logica 48 (2): 264-265. 1989.
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4Socrates and the early dialoguesIn Richard Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press. pp. 121--69. 1992.
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