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39"Unwritten Teachings" in the "Parmenides"Review of Metaphysics 48 (3). 1995.An examination on the one hand of Aristotle's report in Metaphysics A6 of Plato's teachings regarding the One, the dyad of the Great and the Small, and mathematical intermediates and on the other hand of key passages in Plato's Parmenides. I argue that we can find in those passages exhibitions of the teachings Aristotle reports and that these exhibitions help us to understand those teachings.
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38The Fragments of Parmenides (review)Review of Metaphysics 41 (3): 610-612. 1988.A short review of Coxon's study of the fragments of Parmenides.
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30The Legacy of Parmenides, Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (1): 157-159. 1999.A review of Patricia Curd's Legacy of Parmenides, with a stress on her seminal recognition of the implications of his immediate successors' apparent acceptance of plurality within the unity of being.
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25La logique implicite de la cosmogonie d'Hésiode: Etude des vers 116 à 133 de la « Théogonie »Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 82 (4): 433-456. 1977.A close reading of Theogony 116-133, showing the logic of opposites and of whole/part relations that governs Hesiod's account of cosmogenesis, refuting the traditional interpretation of the birth of Chaos as the split between heaven and earth, and providing evidence that Hesiod considered and decided against making Tartaros the parent of the cosmos.
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21Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 482-483. 2005.A review of Drew Hyland's Questioning Platonism.
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Noêsis and logos in the eleatic trilogy, with a focus on the visitor's jokes at Statesman 266ADIn John Sallis (ed.), Plato's Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics, Suny Series in Contemporary Company. 2017.
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Irony, Mediation, and Philosophical Statesmanship: A Study of Plato's "Statesman."Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo. 1972.
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