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38Just warRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 46 137-. 2000.The innocent are immune. We must never, that is, make the object of any violent attack those who bear no responsibility for doing wrong to others; and only with grave reason and in extreme circumstances should we be prepared to cause them any incidental harm as we press home a violent attack against those who are its legitimate objects. This principle of the immunity of the innocent seems almost self-evidently true. This is not to say that the principle is incapable of further development and ar…Read more
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71Names, verbs and sentencesPhilosophy 73 (4): 619-623. 1998.Metaphysicians often declare that there are large ontological differences (properties versus individuals, universals versus particulars) correlated with the linguistic distinction between names and verbs. Gaskin argues against all such declarations on the grounds that we may quantify with equal ease over the referents of both types of expression. However, his argument must be wrong, given the massive differences between first- and second-order qualification. Its only grain of truth is that these…Read more
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9Philoponus, Diodorus, and PossibilityClassical Quarterly 48 (1): 327-327. 1998.The definition here ascribed to Philo is entirely in line with what we know of Philo from else where: Alex. Aphr. in APr. 184.6–10; Simp, in Cat. 195.33–196.5; Boethius, in de Int. 234.10–15. The same is not true of the definition here ascribed to Diodorus. For Diodorus, we are told elsewhere, defined the possible as that which either is or will be so: Cic. Fat. 13, 17; Plu. de Stoic rep. 1055d-e; Alex. Aphr. in APr. 183.42–184.5; Boethius, in de Int. 234.22–4,412.16–7. Something has therefore g…Read more
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1Plato: Alcibiades (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.The Alcibiades was widely read in antiquity as the very best introduction to Plato. Alcibiades in his youth associated with Socrates, and went on to a spectacularly disgraceful career in politics. When Socrates was executed for 'corrupting the young men', Alcibiades was cited as a prime example. This dialogue represents Socrates meeting the charming but intellectually lazy Alcibiades as he is about to enter adult life, and using all his wiles in an attempt to win him for philosophy. In spite of …Read more
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181Language, thought, and falsehood in ancient Greek philosophyRoutledge. 1991.CONTRASTING PREJUDICES TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD How can one say something false? How can one even think such a thing? Since, for example, all men are mortal, ...
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2Aristotle on Modality, IISupplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74 (1): 163-178. 2000.
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1Is Anything Absolutely Wrong?In David S. Oderberg & Jacqueline A. Laing (eds.), Human lives: critical essays on consequentialist bioethics, St. Martin's Press. pp. 39--57. 1997.
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83Being, Identity and TruthPhilosophical Quarterly 44 (174): 117. 1994.Philosophers have met with many problems in discussing the interconnected concepts being, identity, and truth, and have advanced many theories to deal with them. Professor Williams argues that most of these problems and theories result from an inadequate appreciation of the ways in which the words `be', `same', and `true' work. By means of linguistic analysis he shows that being and truth are not properties, and identity is not a relation. He is thus able to demystify a number of metaphysical is…Read more
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89Critical notice of Richard Gaskin's The Unity of the PropositionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 88 (1). 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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5Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Parmenides, Plato and the Semantics of Not-Being (review)Philosophy in Review 13 (2): 108-111. 1993.
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18A Note on Zeno B3In Jan T. J. Srzednicki (ed.), Initiatives in Logic, M. Nijhoff. pp. 81--83. 1987.
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Cambridge UniversitySenior Lecturer
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