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William Wians

University of Notre Dame
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University of Notre Dame
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1983
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Aristotle
Plato
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Aristotle
Plato
  • All publications (58)
  •  10
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxviii (edited book)
    with Gary M. Gurtler
    Brill. 2013.
    This volume, the twenty-eighth year of published proceedings, contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2011-12. The papers treat thinkers ranging from early Greek cosmology, to several on Plato and one each on Aristotle and Plotinus.
  •  87
    Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 27 (3): 294-296. 2004.
    History: SkepticismPhilosophy of Education
  •  106
    Introduction
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 9 (1). 1993.
    French Philosophy
  •  106
    Aristotle’s Two Systems (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 210-217. 1992.
    Aristotle: Development
  •  18
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxx (edited book)
    with Gary M. Gurtler
    Brill. 2012.
    Volume XXX contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2013-14. They feature: Philebus , Republic , Theaetetus and Alcibiades I , Sophist , and Symposium , Apology and Phaedo , on pleasure, knowledge, the city, and the philosopher
    Plato: Philebus
  •  93
    The Philosopher’s Knowledge of Non-Contradiction
    Ancient Philosophy 26 (2): 333-353. 2006.
    AristotleClassics
  •  102
    Preliminary material
    with Gary M. Gurtler
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 28 (1). 2013.
    Material Objects
  •  68
    Commentary on Lennox
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 (1): 241-247. 1995.
    Philosophy of Biology
  •  108
    Aristotle, Demonstration, and Teaching
    Ancient Philosophy 9 (2): 245-253. 1989.
    Aristotle
  • Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxv (edited book)
    with Gary Gurtler
    Brill. 2010.
    This volume, the twenty-fifth year of published proceedings, contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2008-9. The papers treat thinkers ranging from Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and to Chyrsippus and Proclus
  •  1
    The agamemnon and human knowledge
    In Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, State University of New York Press. 2009.
    Literary Values
  •  103
    Natural Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity. Mott T. Greene
    Isis 85 (2): 304-305. 1994.
    History of Science
  •  76
    Colloquium 10
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 402-412. 1990.
  • Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (edited book)
    with Gary M. Gurtler S. J.
    Brill. 2014.
  •  105
    Aristotle on Nature and Living Things Philosophical and Historical Studies : Presented to David M. Balme on His Seventieth Birthday
    . 1985.
    Aristotle: Natural ScienceAristotle: Soul
  •  37
    Virtue, Practice, and Perplexity in Plato's Meno
    Plato Journal (Plato 12 (2012)). 2013.
    Plato's Meno presents a deceptively simple surface. Plato begins by having his character Meno ask Socrates how virtue is acquired. Instead of having Socrates respond directly, Plato has him divert the conversation to the question of what virtue is. But Plato's Meno isn't accustomed to the rigors of Socratic inquiry, and so Plato allows him to force the discussion back toward a version of his original question. After a series of false starts and frustrations, Plato ends his dialogue with (…) - 12…Read more
    Plato's Meno presents a deceptively simple surface. Plato begins by having his character Meno ask Socrates how virtue is acquired. Instead of having Socrates respond directly, Plato has him divert the conversation to the question of what virtue is. But Plato's Meno isn't accustomed to the rigors of Socratic inquiry, and so Plato allows him to force the discussion back toward a version of his original question. After a series of false starts and frustrations, Plato ends his dialogue with (…) - 12. Plato 12 (2012)
    PlatoPlato: Meno
  •  13
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxi (edited book)
    with Gary Gurtler
    Brill. 2012.
    Volume 31 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2014-15. Works: _Symposium_, _Republic_, _Euthyphro_, Proclus’s _De malorum_, _Sophist_, _Statesman_; topics: eros, tripartite soul, what the gods love, evil, Homeric motifs.
  •  78
    Happy Lives and the Highest Good (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 28 (1): 88-91. 2005.
  •  90
    Aristotelian Necessities: Commentary on Bolton
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 13 (1): 139-145. 1997.
  •  10
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxvi (edited book)
    with Gary M. Gurtler
    Brill. 2011.
    This volume, the twenty-sixth year of published proceedings, contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2009-10. The papers treat thinkers ranging from Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle, to Themistius
  •  88
    The Beginnings of Western Science (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 18 (1): 93-96. 1995.
    Philosophy of Education
  •  88
    One and many in Aristotle's metaphysics: The central books
    International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (2): 212-215. 2008.
    AristotleAristotle: MetaphysicsAristotle's Works
  •  65
    Colloquium 7
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 8 (1): 268-279. 1992.
    Plato's Works
  •  46
    Reading Aristotle: argument and exposition (edited book)
    with R. Polansky
    Brill. 2017.
    Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition demonstrates that Aristotle's treatises rely crucially on expository principles--questions of proper sequence, pedagogical method, and distinctions between different sciences.
    Aristotle
  •  15
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxvii (edited book)
    with Gary M. Gurtler
    Brill. 2012.
    This volume, the twenty-seventh year of published proceedings, contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2010-11. The papers treat thinkers ranging from Philolaus, Plato and Aristotle, to Plotinus.
  •  62
    Review essay
    Synthese 96 (1): 161-165. 1993.
    Media Ethics
  •  131
    His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings. Theophrastus, William W. Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas
    Isis 85 (1): 145-145. 1994.
    History of Psychology, Misc
  •  44
    Aristotle's Philosophical Development: Problems and Prospects
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1995.
    A collection of 16 essays which assess the revival of development studies in relation to Aristotle.
    Aristotle
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