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1Aristotle’s End of Action in Itself and the Determination of Character: A Reply to VardoulakisAustralasian Philosophical Review 6 (3): 262-270. 2022.This article responds to Dimitris Vardoulakis’s claim that Heidegger’s mistaken reading of phronēsis’s relation to the hou heneka, or that-for-the-sake-of-which, in Nicomachean Ethics VI at 1139a32–33, leads to an evacuation of ends from action. I argue that Heidegger is not wrong in his reading of Aristotle on phronēsis’s relation to the end. I offer a reading of the passage on which Vardoulakis focuses, which I believe is consistent with Heidegger’s, to show how Aristotle’s view of phronēsis’s…Read more
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43Not Slavery, but SalvationPolis 34 (1): 115-135. 2017.This paper argues that Aristotle challenges the view of Athenian democrats that all rule is master rule – the imposition of the will of the powerful on the powerless – by arguing that the politeuma, or government, should be identical with the politeia, understood both as the constitution and the collectivity of citizens. I examine Aristotle’s analysis and response to democrats’ skepticism of the law that the constitution embodies. Aristotle argues that democrats think law limits license even whe…Read more
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27Logos and the Political Nature of Anthrōpos in Aristotle’s PoliticsPolis 27 (2): 292-307. 2010.Departing from Aristotle's two-fold definition of anthrōpos (human) as having logos and being political, the argument of this article is that human beings are always fundamentally political for Aristotle. This position challenges the view that ethical life is prior to or beyond the scope of political life. Aristotle's conception of the political nature of the human is developed through a reading of the linguistic argument at Politics 1.2; a careful treatment of autos, or self, in Aristotle; and …Read more
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14Colloquium 2 Saving the Appearances of Plato’s CaveProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 36 (1): 31-56. 2021.This article considers Plato’s view of philosophy depicted in his cave analogy in light of Arendt’s distinction between Socratic and Platonic philosophy. Arendt argues that philosophy functions, for Socrates, in an immanent world, characterized by examining and considering—in addition to refining opinions through persuasion about—the currency of politics, which thereby closely associates philosophy with politics. On her view, Plato makes philosophy transcend politics—the world of opinion—when So…Read more
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8Rancière and Aristotle: Parapolitics, Part-y Politics, and the Institution of Perpetual PoliticsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (4): 627-646. 2012.ABSTRACT This article addresses Rancière's critique of Aristotle's political theory as parapolitics in order to show that Aristotle is a resource for developing an inclusionary notion of political community. Rancière argues that Aristotle attempts to cut off politics and merely police the community by eliminating the political claim of the poor by including it. I respond to three critiques that Rancière makes of Aristotle: that he ends the political dispute by including the demos in the governme…Read more
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159 Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle’s BiologyIn Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. Johnson (eds.), Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 158-179. 2017.
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21Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of GenerationEdinburgh University Press. 2019.Adriel M. Trott challenges the wholesale acceptance of the view that nature operates in Aristotle's work on a craft model, which implies that matter has no power of its own. Instead, she argues for a robust sense of matter in Aristotle in response to feminist critiques. She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution (and the female itself) on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male. Using the image of a Möbius strip, Trott considers how semen and menses flow throu…Read more
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19Rule in Turn: Political Rule against Mastery in Aristotle's PoliticsEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2): 301-311. 2013.Aristotle’s political theory is often dismissed as undemocratic due to his treatment of natural slavery and women and to his conception of political rule as rule by turns. The second reason presents no less serious challenges than the first for finding democracy in Aristotle’s political theory. This article argues that Aristotle’s account of ruling in turns hinges on a critique of master rule and an affirmation of political rule, which involves both the rulers and the ruled in the project of rul…Read more
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34Aristotle on the Nature of CommunityCambridge University Press. 2014.This reading of Aristotle's Politics builds on the insight that the history of political philosophy is a series of configurations of nature and reason. Aristotle's conceptualization of nature is unique because it is not opposed to or subordinated to reason. Adriel M. Trott uses Aristotle's definition of nature as an internal source of movement to argue that he viewed community as something that arises from the activity that forms it rather than being a form imposed on individuals. Using these de…Read more
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42Nature, Action, and PoliticsAncient Philosophy 37 (1): 113-128. 2017.Political theorists and feminist theorists alike have challenged accounts of political life that rest on an overcoming or separation from nature. They argue that such conceptions of political life divide between those who overcome their more natural existence to become political and those persons who are more closely associated with nature—women, workers, persons of color—and unable to be political (eg, Okin 1991, Pateman 1988, Mills 1997, Agamben 1998). Aristotle might be taken to offer an alte…Read more
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15Fanny Söderbäck. Feminist Readings of Antigone (review)philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 2 (2): 234-237. 2012.
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39‘Not Slavery, but Salvation’: Aristotle on Constitution and GovernmentPolis 34 (1): 115-135. 2017.This paper argues that Aristotle challenges the view of Athenian democrats that all rule is master rule – the imposition of the will of the powerful on the powerless – by arguing that the politeuma, or government, should be identical with the politeia, understood both as the constitution and the collectivity of citizens. I examine Aristotle’s analysis and response to democrats’ skepticism of the law that the constitution embodies. Aristotle argues that democrats think law limits license even whe…Read more
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12“Logos and the Political Nature of Anthrôpos in Aristotle’s PoliticsPolis 27 (2): 292-307. 2010.Departing from Aristotle's two-fold definition of anthropos as having logos and being political, the argument of this article is that human beings are always fundamentally political for Aristotle. This position challenges the view that ethical life is prior to or beyond the scope of political life. Aristotle's conception of the political nature of the human is developed through a reading of the linguistic argument at Politics I.2; a careful treatment of autos, or self, in Aristotle; and an exami…Read more
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23Plato’s Republic by Alain Badiou; Susan Spitzer trans (review)Ancient Philosophy 35 (1): 216-220. 2015.
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505Rancière and Aristotle: Parapolitics, Part-y Politics and the Institution of Perpetual PoliticsJournal for Speculative Philosophy 26 (4): 627-646. 2012.This article addresses Rancière’s critique of Aristotle’s political theory as parapolitics in order to show that Aristotle is a resource for developing an inclusionary notion of political community. Rancière argues that Aristotle attempts to cut off politics and merely police (maintain) the community by eliminating the political claim of the poor by including it. I respond to three critiques that Rancière makes of Aristotle: that he ends the political dispute by including the demos in the govern…Read more
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36Toward a Feminist Ontology: A New Logic of Truth in Irigaray’s Reading of Plato’s CavePhilosophy Today 50 (Supplement): 22-30. 2006.
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690“The Truth of Politics in Alain Badiou: ‘There is Only One World.Parrhesia 12 82-93. 2011.In recent years, the growing number of persons to whom basic human rights have been explicitly denied—stateless persons, refugees, undocumented workers, sans papiers and unlawful combatants—has evidenced the logic of contemporary nation-state politics. According to this logic, the state defines itself by virtue of what it excludes while what is excluded is given no other recourse than the state for its protection. Hannah Arendt elucidates this logic when she observes that the stateless and the r…Read more
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485Book Review "Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy, by Brooke Holmes" (review)Hypatia Reviews Online 192. 2014.Review.
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39Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, SubjectivityLexington Books. 2015.This book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy
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Wabash CollegeAssociate Professor
Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Feminist Philosophy |