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    Socrates and the Ethic of Resistance: Comments on Buss
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1): 34-38. 2020.
    I respond to Sarah Buss first by considering Socrates as an exemplar of courageous resistance to injustice, then by adding two caveats: exemplary resistance seems to flow from very diverse psychological profiles, and cowardice may not always be best understood as expressing fearful self‐attachment.
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    Gopal Sreenivasan, Emotion and Virtue: Five Questions About Courage
    Criminal Law and Philosophy 18 (1): 253-263. 2024.
    An important virtue of Emotion and Virtue is its careful and sophisticated discussion of the central yet ill-understood virtue of courage. However, Sreenivasan’s treatment of courage raises as many questions as it answers; several of these can be brought into sharper focus by comparison with the argument of Plato and Aristotle on the topic.
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  • A Reading of Plato's "Cratylus"
    Dissertation, Princeton University. 1996.
    The Cratylus is Plato's principal discussion of language, and has generated immense interpretive controversy. This thesis offers a new interpretation of the Cratylus, starting from the idea that it is essentially a normative enquiry, to be interpreted alongside Plato's ethical and political works. Just as the Statesman attempts to determine the nature of the statesman, so too the basic project of the Cratylus is to discover what constitutes a true, correct name. But this aim is doomed in the cas…Read more