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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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15Plato: The Apology of Socrates and Xenophon: The Apology of Socrates (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.In 399 BC Socrates was prosecuted, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. These events were the culmination of a long philosophical career, a career in which, without writing a word, he established himself as the figure whom all philosophers of the next few generations wished to follow. The Apologies by Plato and Xenophon are rival accounts of how, at his trial, Socrates defended himself and his philosophy. This edition brings together both Apologies within a single volume. The commentary a…Read more
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11Some Aspects of Aspect: Reflections on M.M. McCabe’s ‘First Chop Your Logos: Socrates and the Sophists on Language, Logic and Development’Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (2): 151-154. 2019.ABSTRACT McCabe is right on one thing and wrong on another. She is right to draw our attention to the different aspects that a verb might have—and not only because attention to aspect helps us understand what is going on in Plato’s Euthydemus. Getting straight on aspect promises benefits for our philosophy of action, and for our metaphysics more generally, comparable to those of getting straight about modality and about excuses. The same is true of getting straight on the active, middle, and pas…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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5Sun and line: The role of the goodIn G. R. F. Ferrari (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic, Cambridge University Press. pp. 284--309. 2007.
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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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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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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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Reading Platonic Writing: A Discussion of Christopher Rowe, Plato and the Art of Philosophical WritingIn Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume Xxxvi, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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The Phaedo's final argumentIn Dominic Scott (ed.), Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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Authority and the dialectic of SocratesIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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The Seventh Letter: A Discussion of Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh LetterOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 51 283-292. 2016.
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Cambridge UniversitySenior Lecturer
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