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9Review of Animal Minds and Human Morals by Richard Sorabji (review)Classical Bulletin 71 (1): 62-4. 1995.
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7Review of The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science, by Dustin Sebell (review)Polis 35 (1): 237-40. 2018.
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12Colloquium 2 Commentary on HalperProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 33 (1): 61-67. 2018.Edward Halper’s “The Metaphysics of the Syllogism” argues that the ontological ground of valid inference is found in the necessity of the predications that constitute the premises of the sort of syllogism central to Aristotle’s theory: demonstration. I further support his conclusion on the basis of a consideration of the title and structure of Aristotle’s Analytics, as well as some recent analysis of Aristotle’s modal logic. Halper however suggests that the logical form of inference is a result …Read more
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28The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science, written by Dustin SebellPolis 35 (1): 237-240. 2018.
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16Ancient Atomism and Digital PhilosophyReview of Metaphysics 72 (2): 245-257. 2018.What is it for a philosophical account to be atomist? What is the attraction of an atomistic metaphysics? These questions are best approached by considering representative varieties of atomism. The present paper offers a preliminary account of atomism in general and then, in order to shed light on atomism in general and its appeal, considers two very different varieties of atomism: that of Democritus and that of Fredkin’s “digital ontology.” Atomistic accounts are philosophically attractive for …Read more
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50David Bronstein. Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior Analytics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii+272. $74.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 7 (1): 173-176. 2017.
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34Aristotle’s On Generation and Corruption I (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1): 132-133. 2006.
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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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16To Tell the Truth: Dissoi Logoi 4 & Aristotle's ResponseIn Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Victor Miles Caston & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos, Ashgate. pp. 232-49. 2002.
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82Atoms, complexes, and demonstration: Posterior analytics 96b15-25Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35 (4): 707-727. 2004.There is agreement neither concerning the point that is being made in Posterior analytics 96b15–25 nor the issue Aristotle intends to address. There are two major lines of interpretation of this passage. According to one, sketched by Themistius and developed by Philoponus and Eustratius, Aristotle is primarily concerned with determining the definitions of the infimae species that fall under a certain genus. They understand Aristotle as arguing that this requires collating definitional prediction…Read more
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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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7Contrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaeth…Read more
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38Tamir, Rawls, and the Temple MountJournal of Applied Philosophy 22 (3). 2005.abstract What gives ethical and political validity to a state? This is to ask what a state is for and to provide a means to determine whether or not a constitution is just. In this paper I compare the account given by Tamir in Liberal Nationalism with that of Rawls, in order to clarify the decisive differences. Although both recognize the importance of particular associations and the moral imperative to be fair, Tamir places priority on the first and Rawls on the second. I explore their practica…Read more
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16Self, Sameness, and Soul in Alcibiades I_ and the _TimaeusFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 40 (1-2): 5-19. 1993.
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33Heraclitean Satiety and Aristotelian ActualityThe Monist 74 (4): 568-578. 1991.It is now a commonplace that Aristotle and Theophrastus systematically misunderstood Heraclitus in interpreting fire as an ἀρχή of the kind posited by the Milesians. While air in the thought of Anaxamines and the ἄπειρον in the thought of Anaximander can be considered to play the role of the Aristotelian material substrate without too much distortion, this is not so for fire in the thought of Heraclitus. As Cherniss has indicated, while a substrate of the kind posited by the Milesians is a perma…Read more
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25Colloquium 3: Cosmic Orientation in Aristotle’s De CaeloProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 26 (1): 91-129. 2011.
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5Problems with Graham's Two-systems HypothesisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 7 203-213. 1989.
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74Metaphysical Explanation and “Partcularization” in Maimonides’ Guide of the PerplexedJournal of Philosophical Research 17 189-213. 1992.Within The Guide of the Perplexed Maimonides presents an argument that is intended to render probable the temporal creation of the cosmos. In one of these arguments Maimonides adopts the Kalamic strategy of arguing for the necessity of there being a “particularizing” agent. Maimonides argues that even one who grants Aristotelian science can still ask why the heavenly realm is as it is, to which there is no reply forthcoming but “God so willed it.” The argument is effective against the Arabic Neo…Read more
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22Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian ThoughtAncient Philosophy 35 (2): 458-464. 2015.
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25Tamir, Rawls and the Temple MountJournal of Applied Philosophy 22 (3): 289-298. 2005.abstract What gives ethical and political validity to a state? This is to ask what a state is for and to provide a means to determine whether or not a constitution is just. In this paper I compare the account given by Tamir in Liberal Nationalism with that of Rawls, in order to clarify the decisive differences. Although both recognize the importance of particular associations and the moral imperative to be fair, Tamir places priority on the first and Rawls on the second. I explore their practica…Read more
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