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1218Epicureans and Stoics on UniversalsIn Riccardo Chiaradonna Gabriele Galluzzo (ed.), Universals in Ancient Philosophy, Edizioni Della Normale. pp. 255-297. 2013.Epicureans and Stoics reject the independent existence of the Platonic Ideas. This paper assesses what both schools put forward as substitutes for universals. Both Epicureans and Stoics appeal to an a posteriori mental capacity for generalisation but that is where their shared commitments end. the divergences are mapped out, against a tendency in historiography to assimilate the two strategies, and both theories are then analysed independently.
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810La Structure Logique du Langage Ordinaire chez les StoiciensIn Jean-Michel Counet (ed.), Philosophie et Langage Ordinaire de l'Antiquité a' la Renaissance, Edition Peeters. pp. 83-96. 2014.Rather than considering ordinary language as deficient and incapable of grasping the structure of reality, the Stoics set out a theory, based on their notion of a lekton, by which ordinary language is a reflection of the structure of lekta which themselves are constitutive of reality.
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47Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas avec les lekta?Methodos 19. 2019.On examinera la théorie stoïcienne des lekta en suivant les critiques formulées contre elle provenant de trois perspectives différentes : celle des Péripatéticiens, de Sextus Empiricus et celle formulée au sein même de l’école par Sénèque. Ces critiques se concentrent sur des questions relatives à une théorie du langage, mais une lecture minutieuse révèle que le cœur du problème réside dans un rejet profond de l’ontologie stoïcienne, constituée en partie, par les lekta. Les réactions des critiqu…Read more
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32Rational Empiricism: The Stoics on Reason, Experience and KatalepsisHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 19 (1): 167-187. 2016.In this paper, Stoic epistemology is analysed in terms of how to achieve a stable grasping of reality through katalepsis. The paper argues that for the Stoics, this is a state accessible to any rational being because it is the upshot of a mental capacity we are necessarily bound to put into operation, namely that of experiencing and mentally ordering objects from the sensible world. The paper puts forward an original interpretation relying on a reconsidered notion of Stoic empeiria or experience…Read more
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19The Stoics on how vice and error make life worth livingIn Therese Fuhrer & Janja Soldo (eds.), Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature, De Gruyter. pp. 37-66. 2023.
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17The Stoics on Lekta: All There is to SayOxford University Press. 2019.After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. This volume analyses the resulting unique, complex, and consistent cosmic view in which lekta are the keystones of the structure of reality: they are all there is to say.
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12On the Fear of the Void and Killing Babies in Pascal, Nabokov, and Game of ThronesOpen Philosophy 5 (1): 192-208. 2021.The article places Game of Thrones within a tradition of pessimism, reaching back to Blaise Pascal and coloured by Nabokov’s vision of birth as a separation between two voids. This lineage provides a philosophical thread to analyse the motivations and actions of the protagonists of Game of Thrones, in particular their relation to child-killing. The void looms large in the world of Game of Thrones as the unchartered space beyond the wall. It is the awareness of the reality of this void and the ho…Read more
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10Nouvelle Histoire de la danse en Occident: De la Préhistoire à nos jours, edited by Laura CappelleEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 2 184-188. 2021.
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2The Stoic View on UniversalsDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18 71-87. 2007.
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