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45Review: On A History of Women Philosophers, Vol. I (review)Hypatia 4 (1). 1989.This book sets high standards for itself. Regrettably it fails to meet them: apart from a few displays of thorough and competent research, it is generally based on substandard scholarship.
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18Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesPhilosophical Review 95 (2): 290. 1986.
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26Two Studies in the Early AcademyState University of New York Press. 1991.Dancy (philosophy, Florida State U.) presents two new interpretations of the evidence regarding the metaphysical ideas of two important figures in Plato's Academy, Eudoxus and Speusippus, and of Aristotle's reaction to those ideas.
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65Sense and contradiction: a study in AristotleD. Reidel Pub. Co.. 1975.ARISTOTLE'S PROGRAM Aristotle says outright that the law of non-contradiction cannot be demonstrated: you can't prove everything, and among the things you ...
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36The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (review)Philosophical Review 112 (3): 409-413. 2003.Aristippus of Cyrene was one of Socrates’ associates; he appears in Xenophon’s Memorabilia, where in 2.1.1 Socrates is said to have thought him “quite undisciplined” in matters of food, drink, and sex. Whether he himself was a philosophical hedonist or not is open to discussion; at any rate, the Cyrenaics who succeeded him are supposed to have accepted a variety of hedonism. But they are also supposed to have accepted something that looks like skepticism: we can have knowledge only of our own af…Read more
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36Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. WerkmeisterSpringer. 2010.From the Amazon.com description: On 5–6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant at Florida State University; this volume collects the (revised versions of the) papers presented on that occasion. The occasion was, give or take a few months, the 90th birthday of Professor (Emeritus) William H. Werkmeister. Werkie (as all his friends call him) himself gave the final paper at this conference. Hence the inclusion of a paper by Werkie in a volume honoring him. Although he is primarily known for his…Read more
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