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6Problems with Graham's Two-systems HypothesisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 7 203-213. 1989.
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4Review of The Enthymeme. Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric (review)Classical Review 72 (1): 79-81. 2022.
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4Review of Principles and Proofs: Aristotle’s Theory of Demonstrative Science by Richard D. McKirahan, Jr (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (2): 137-138. 1997.
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4Pythagoreanism and the History of DemonstrationIn Chelsea C. Harry & Justin Habash (eds.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, Brill. pp. 193-220. 2021.Three key elements of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration have Pythagorean antecedents. Demonstration is a revelatory discourse that is 1) inferential, 2) explicitly based on premises that are not themselves demonstrated on the basis of more basic premises, and 3) explanatory, insofar as the premises express those basic facts that are explanatory of the conclusion. The Pythagorean Table of Opposites constitutes a kind of protologic making possible a kind of deduction, which Aristotle would have …Read more
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4Review of Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainability, by Melissa Lane (review)Polis 29 (2): 350-354. 2012.
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4Review of Some Philosophical Issues in Moral Matters: the Collected Ethical Writings of Joseph Owens (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (3): 196-8. 1997.
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3Book Review of Aristotle on Homonymy: Dialectic and Science, by Julie K. Ward (review)Ancient Philosophy 30 (1): 183-6. 2010.
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2Book Review of Aristotle’s Theory of Actuality, by Zev Bechler (review)Ancient Philosophy 17 (1): 226-30. 2001.
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2On National IdentityInference: International Review of Science 3 (1). 2017.In response to “Trump and the Trumpists” (Vol. 3, No. 1).
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2Book Review of Truth, etc: Six Lectures on Ancient Logic, by Jonathan Barnes (review)Ancient Philosophy 29 (2): 432-7. 2009.
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2Review of Plato's Reception of Parmenides by John A. Palmer (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 200102. 2001.
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2Review of Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought by Michael T. Ferejohn (review)Ancient Philosophy 35 (2): 458-64. 2015.
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1Book Review of Aristotle on Definition, by Marquerite Deslauriers (review)Ancient Philosophy 29 (2): 427-31. 2009.
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Joseph Owens, Some Philosophical Issues in Moral Matters: the Collected Ethical Writings of Joseph Owens Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (3): 196-198. 1997.
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Review of Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence by James Allen (review)Ancient Philosophy 23 452-58. 2003.
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The Role of the Demonstration That Explains an Essence in Aristotle's Theory of Explanation [Microform]. --University Microfilms International. 1988.In this dissertation I present an interpretation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics II.3-10 according to which Aristotle here outlines the structure of reductive explanations, in which attributes taken to be basic from the standpoint of common sense are analyzed as complexes of theoretical primitives. ;I first discuss the basic features of Aristotle's account of scientific understanding. I then show how an Aristotelian definition of a kind is thought to play two roles: that of grounding all expl…Read more
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