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9Colloquium 10Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 402-412. 1990.
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66Aristotle and the problem of human knowledgeInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (1): 41-64. 2008.I shall argue that, according to Aristotle, the knowledge we may attain is profoundly qualified by our status as human knowers. Throughout the corpus, Aristotle maintains a separation of knowledge at the broadest level into two kinds, human and divine. The separation is not complete—human knowers may enjoy temporarily what god or the gods enjoy on a continuous basis; but the division expresses a fact about humanity's place in the cosmos, one that imposes strict conditions on what we may know, wi…Read more
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5Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxviii (edited book)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.
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11One and many in Aristotle's metaphysics: The central booksInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2 (2): 212-215. 2008.
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24Aristotle's Philosophical Development: Problems and ProspectsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1995.A collection of 16 essays which assess the revival of development studies in relation to Aristotle.
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8Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxx (edited book)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
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3Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxi (edited book)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.
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1Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2010._Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights._
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14Colloquium 7Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 8 (1): 268-279. 1992.
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxv (edited book)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
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18His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings by Theophrastus; William W. Fortenbaugh; Dimitri Gutas (review)Isis 85 145-145. 1994.
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16Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition (edited book)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.
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5Commentary on KirklandProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 29 (1): 214-223. 2014.In his fine paper on the aims of Aristotle’s methods, Sean Kirkland suggests that Aristotle practiced a proto-phenomenological approach to truth. In doing so, Kirkland reminds us of the lived dimension of Aristotle’s philosophizing, an active and ongoing response to the world that begins long before the emergence of philosophical concepts and systems. I am in sympathy with much of what Kirkland argues. However, I think more needs to be said about the relationship between dialectic and demonstrat…Read more
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36Virtue, Practice, and Perplexity in Plato's MenoPlato 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
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2Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxvi (edited book)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
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1The agamemnon and human knowledgeIn William Robert Wians (ed.), Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, State University of New York Press. 2009.
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Aristotle |
Plato |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Aristotle |
Plato |