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54Skeptic SemioticsPhronesis 28 (3): 213-255. 1983.This article presents a detailed exploration of what Sextus and Pyrrhonists regarded as mnemonic signs, where one experience reminds us of another, such as seeing smoke reminds us of a fire that is not yet evident to our present observations. For the skeptic the use of mnemonic signs obviates the need for reasoned, theoretical interpretations or elaborated belief formation. It allows the skeptic or the theory-free physician, for that matter, to live a life or practice symptomatic medicine witho…Read more
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5Luis E. Navia, Diogenes of Sinope: The Man in the Tub Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 19 (5): 363-364. 1999.
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43Plutarch, against colotes - E. kechagia plutarch against colotes. A lesson in history of philosophy. Pp. XXVIII + 359. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2011. Cased, £70, us$135. Isbn: 978-0-19-959723-9 (review)The Classical Review 63 (1): 81-84. 2013.
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Luis E. Navia, Diogenes of Sinope: The Man in the Tub (review)Philosophy in Review 19 363-364. 1999.
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42Recollection and Experience: Plato’s Theory of Learning and its Successors (review)Ancient Philosophy 17 (2): 462-469. 1997.
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1JEJ Altham and Ross Harrison eds., World, Mind, and Ethics: Essays on the ethical philosophy of Bernard Williams Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 16 (4): 231-236. 1996.
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36Mimetic Ignorance, Platonic Doxa, and De Re BeliefHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 2 (4). 1985.A close reading of what Plato writes about DOXA, misleadingly translated as ‘belief’, reveals that DOXA exhibits the logical form of what it is now referred to as “de re belief.” A DOXA makes a claim on the nature of reality, not a claim about the speaker’s thoughts about that reality. Consequently a doxastic claim is either true or meaningless when it fails of reference to the portion of reality it is naming. This insight has deep implications for Plato’s epistemology in general and his “Meno,…Read more
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29Borderline disordersPhilosophy and Geography 5 (1). 2002.An exploration of the roots of terrorism suggests one primal source arises from so-called “self-made” males who find difficulty forming community attachments. Those who fail to see that they live within the boundaries of humanity fail to recognize where dark ambitions of their souls fester and where inter-subjective reality begins. They suffer from what psychiatrists call borderline disorders. Cut off from a lived community, they become monsters of humanity.
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Bernard Williams, Making Sense of Humanity and other philosophical papers 1982-1993 (review)Philosophy in Review 16 (4): 231-236. 1996.
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1Philosophy and Geography Iii: Philosophies of Place (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.A growing literature testifies to the persistence of place as an incorrigible aspect of human experience, identity, and morality. Place is a common ground for thought and action, a community of experienced particulars that avoids solipsism and universalism. It draws us into the philosophy of the ordinary, into familiarity as a form of knowledge, into the wisdom of proximity. Each of these essays offers a philosophy of place, and reminds us that such philosophies ultimately decide how we make, us…Read more
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64Aristotelian Perception and the Hellenistic Problem of RepresentationAncient Philosophy 4 (2): 119-131. 1984.The understanding of perception advanced by Aristotle and Theophrastus is largely physiological in character, describing the mechanism of perception and its resulting epistemic value. Like Epicurean views, theirs is not a theory of sensory ideas. The Stoics develop a competing approach to perception that describes sensory phenomena in terms of conceptual, linguistic representations.
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19Davie Cicero. On Life and Death. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Miriam T. Griffin. Pp. xxviii + 251. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Paper, £9.99, US$16.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-964414-8 (review)The Classical Review 68 (1): 290-290. 2018.