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20Psychic disharmony: Philoponus and epicurus on Plato's phaedoOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30 235-259. 2006.
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20O'Keefe Epicurus on Freedom. Pp. x + 175. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cased, £45, US$70. ISBN: 0-521-84696-X (review)The Classical Review 56 (2): 313-315. 2006.
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20Removing fearIn The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 234-248. 2009.
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17II—Forms of Agreement in Plato’s CritoProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 123 (1): 26-50. 2023.Crito thinks Socrates should agree to leave the prison and escape from Athens. Socrates is also determined that he and Crito should have a ‘common plan of action’ (koinē boulē: 49d3), but he wants Crito to share his preferred plan of remaining and submitting to the court’s sentence. Much of the drama of the Crito is generated by the interplay of these two old friends, both determined that they should come to an agreement, but differing radically in what they think the two of them should agree to…Read more
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16The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic HedonistsCambridge University Press. 2014.Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are creatures that are able to think: to learn, understand, remember and recall, plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and, what is more, were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. There appear to be, after all, pleasures and pains associated with learning and inquiring, recollecting and anticipating. We enjoy finding something out. We are pained to discover that a belief we…Read more
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15Coping with Choices to Die, by C. G. Prado.: Book Reviews (review)Mind 122 (488): 1172-1174. 2013.
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14Presocratics: Natural Philosophers Before SocratesUniversity of California Press. 2007.The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It also saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas, from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account of one unchanging existence to the development of an atomist theory of the physical world. This general account of the Presocratics introduces the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth…Read more
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13Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2020.Philosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a material entity, as it was by Epicureans and Stoics; but even Aristotelians and Platonists shared the conviction that body and soul interact in ways that affect the well-being of the living human being. These philosophers were interested in the nat…Read more
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10Damascius on Aristotle and Theophrastus on Plato on false pleasureRevue de Philosophie Ancienne 1 105-129. 2018.Dans son Commentaire sur le Philèbe de Platon, § 167-168, Damascius rapporte une série d’objections à la thèse fameuse de Socrate dans le Philèbe selon laquelle il existe des « plaisirs faux ». Ces objections furent formulées par Théophraste, l’élève d’Aristote, peut-être dans son livre en un volume Sur les plaisirs faux (DL 5.56). Dans cet article, je montre d’abord comment les critiques de Théophraste recourent aux ouvrages d’Aristote, et notamment à son analyse des différents types de fausset…Read more
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9Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is often characterised in terms of competitive individuals debating orally with one another in public arenas. But it also developed over its long history a sense in which philosophers might acknowledge some other particular philosopher or group of philosophers as an authority and offer to that authority explicit intellectual allegiance. This is most obvious in the development after the classical period of the philosophical 'schools' with agreed founders and, mo…Read more
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6Frede, Inwood Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age. Pp. xii + 353. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cased, £50, US$85. ISBN: 0-521-84181-X (review)The Classical Review 56 (2): 315-317. 2006.
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6Epicurus on the false belief that sense-impressions conflictPhilosophie Antique 19 7-28. 2019.Selon les épicuriens, toutes les impressions des sens sont vraies et la raison trouve en elles son fondement. Nombreux sont ceux, cependant, qui croient que les impressions des sens ne sont pas toutes vraies. Les épicuriens expliquent cette croyance de la façon suivante : la source de cette erreur est souvent la croyance que les impressions des sens peuvent se contredire. Mais cette dernière croyance résulte souvent de ce que les épicuriens tiennent pour notre tendance naturelle, et fréquemment …Read more
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6Cato’ s integritasPhilosophie Antique 22 9-37. 2022.Caton d’Utique est parfois présenté comme un exemple d’agent moral ayant toujours agi avec honnêteté. Il refuse tout compromis moral. J’analyse ici comment les auteurs antiques présentent cette honnêteté comme une forme d’inaptitude, plus précisément une inaptitude à envisager toute action injuste, et comment cela est présenté comme une forme d’obstination et d’échec empêchant d’interagir avec les gens tels qu’ils sont réellement. Je compare ces anciennes représentations et ces jugements sur Cat…Read more
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6Philosophy: Places, institutions, characterIn Frisbee Sheffield & James Warren (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 393. 2013.
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6Regret. A study in Ancient Moral PsychologyOxford University Press. 2021.This book provides a study of regret (metameleia) in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. It was important for all these philosophers to insist that regret is a characteristic of neither fully virtuous nor wholly irredeemable characters. Rather, they took regret to be something that affects people who retrospectively feel pain at realising an earlier mistaken action. Regret sets out in full the accounts of the nature of this emotion found in the works of these philosophers, …Read more
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4Socratic scepticism in Plutarch's Adversas ColotemElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 23 (2): 333-356. 2002.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |