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10Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (edited book)Brill. 2013.Volume XXIX contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2012-13. The papers feature Plato's Republic and Timaeus, examine Aristotle on generation, analogy and method, and analyze Proclus on first principles.
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9Colloquium 10Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 402-412. 1990.
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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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6Argument and Dialectical Structure in Physics VIII 1Aristotelica. forthcoming._Physics_ VIII 1 presents a multi-stage argument concluding that there was not, nor ever will be, a time when there was not nor will not be motion (_Phys_. VIII 1.252b5-6). In this paper I shall argue that chapter’s argument is dialectical in a precise way. My claim will be that _Physics_ VIII 1 is apodeictically conditioned – its structure must be understood in terms of the theory of science in the _Posterior Analytics_ and the methods for establishing principles in the _Topics. Physics_ VIII 1…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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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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4Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxvii (edited book)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.
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4Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxii (edited book)Brill. 2017.The volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the _Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy_ during the academic year 2015-16. Works: Phaedrus, Republic, Apology, Laws, Seventh Letter, Stoic texts. Topics: Stoic blending, reciprocal eros, perception in tripartite soul, Stoic identity, Plato’s politics and events.
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3Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxxiii (edited book)Brill. 2018.Volume 33 contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2015-16. Works: Parmenides’ _Poem, Posterior Analytics_ and _Poetics_, Gorgias. Topics: liar’s paradox, syllogism and nature, authorial freedom, _ousia_ and the true and good.
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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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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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1Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition in the Corpus Aristotelicum (edited book). forthcoming.
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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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1The agamemnon and human knowledgeIn William Robert Wians (ed.), Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature, State University of New York Press. 2009.
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1Logoi and muthoi: further essays in Greek philosophy and literature (edited book)SUNY Press. 2019.Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle. In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the valu…Read more
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXVI (2010) (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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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxix (edited book)Brill. 2012.Volume XXIX contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2012-13. The papers feature Plato's Republic and Timaeus , examine Aristotle on generation, analogy and method, and analyze Proclus on first principles
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXXI (2015) (edited book)BRILL. 2016.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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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXVII (2011) (edited book)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.
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Commentary on LloydProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 402-412. 1990.
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXXII (2016) (edited book)BRILL. 2017.The volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the _Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy_ during the academic year 2015-16. Works: Phaedrus, Republic, Apology, Laws, Seventh Letter, Stoic texts. Topics: Stoic blending, reciprocal eros, perception in tripartite soul, Stoic identity, Plato’s politics and events.
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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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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXVIII (2012) (edited book)BRILL. 2013.This volume, the twenty-eighnth 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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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Plato |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Aristotle |
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