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39A Quietist ParticularismIn David Bakhurst, Margaret Olivia Little & Brad Hooker (eds.), Thinking about reasons: themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy, Oxford University Press. pp. 218. 2013.
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27ProjectivismIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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112Virtue and Reason in Plato and AristotleOxford University Press. 2011.A.W. Price explores the views of Plato and Aristotle on how virtue of character and practical reasoning enable agents to achieve eudaimonia--the state of living or acting well. He provides a full philosophical analysis and argues that the perennial question of action within human life is central to the reflections of these ancient philosophers.
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84Simon Blackburn, Essays in Quasi-Realism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 262Utilitas 7 (1): 172. 1995.
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Aristotle's conception of practical thinkingIn Constantine Sandis (ed.), New essays on the explanation of action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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310Love and friendship in Plato and AristotleOxford University Press. 1989.This book explores for the first time an idea common to both Plato and Aristotle: although people are separate, their lives need not be; one person's life may overflow into another's, so that helping someone else is a way of serving oneself. Price considers how this idea unites the philosophers' treatments of love and friendship (which are otherwise very different), and demonstrates that this view of love and friendship, applied not only to personal relationships, but also to the household and e…Read more
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120Against requirements of rationalityProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1pt2): 157-176. 2008.Are inferences, theoretical and practical, subject to requirements of rationality? If so, are these of the form 'if … ought …' or 'ought … if …'? If the latter, how are we to understand the 'if'? It seems that, in all cases, we get unintuitive implications if 'ought' connotes having reason. It is difficult to formulate such requirements, and obscure what they explain. There might also be a requirement forbidding self-contradiction. It is a good question whether self-contradiction constitutes, or…Read more
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Aristotle on the ends of deliberationIn Michael Pakaluk & Giles Pearson (eds.), Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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94Emotions in Plato and AristotleIn Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2009.Without separating off emotions as such, Plato and Aristotle alert us to their compositional intricacy, which involves body and mind, cognition and desire, perception and feeling. Even the differences of interpretation to which scholars are resigned focus our minds upon the complexity of the phenomena, and their resistance to over-unitary definitions. Emotions, after all, are things that we feel; at the same time, emotionally is how we often think. Discarding too simple a Socratic focus upon con…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |