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Anthony Price

Birkbeck, University of London
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  • Birkbeck, University of London
    Department of Philosophy
    Other faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action
  • All publications (49)
  •  27
    Projectivism
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
    Moral Projectivism
  •  90
    Review of M. Burnyeat & M. Frede, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter
    Plato: Letters
  • Were Zeno and Chysippus at odds in analysing emotion?
    In Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought: themes from the work of Richard Sorabji, Oxford University Press. 2005.
    Stoics: Topics
  •  2
    Was Aristotle a Particularist?
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 21 191-212. 2005.
    Moral Particularism
  • 2 Aristotle, the Stoics and the will
    In Thomas Pink & Martin William Francis Stone (eds.), The Will and Human Action: From Antiquity to the Present Day, Routledge. pp. 29. 2003.
    Stoics
  •  33
    The Greeks on Pleasure
    Philosophical Books 24 (4): 217-219. 1983.
    History: Pleasure
  •  94
    Varieties of pleasure in Plato and Aristotle
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 52 177-208. 2017.
    History: PleasurePlato: Philosophy of MindAristotle: Philosophy of Mind, Misc
  •  26
    Happiness for Humans
    Philosophical Quarterly 64 (255): 372-377. 2014.
    Happiness
  •  63
    Acrasia and self-control
    In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 234--254. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Prelude Aristotle's Account Difficulties and Alternatives Aristotle's Motivation Acknowledgments Notes Reference Further reading.
    Aristotle
  •  77
    Virtue and Knowledge: an Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics (review)
    The Classical Review 41 (2): 499-500. 1991.
    Ancient Greek and Roman EthicsClassicsAncient Greek and Roman Philosophy: Introductions and Sourcebo…Read more
    Ancient Greek and Roman EthicsClassicsAncient Greek and Roman Philosophy: Introductions and Sourcebooks
  •  142
    The Posterior Analytics - Jonathan Barnes: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Pp. xix + 277. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Cloth, £7
    The Classical Review 28 (1): 86-87. 1978.
    Aristotle's Works in LogicClassicsAristotle: Logic and Philosophy of Language
  •  43
    Schriften zur aristotelischen Ethik (review)
    The Classical Review 40 (1): 169-170. 1990.
    Ancient Greek and Roman PhilosophyAristotleClassics
  •  16
    Plato’s Republic and the Greek Enlightenment (review)
    The Classical Review 50 (1): 329-330. 2000.
    Plato: RepublicPlato and Other Philosophers
  •  78
    Praktisches Folgern und Selbst gestaltung nach Aristoteles (review)
    The Classical Review 34 (1): 134-135. 1984.
    Ancient Greek and Roman PhilosophyAristotleClassicsAnselm
  •  62
    Plato’s Ethics (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 16 (1): 189-194. 1996.
    ClassicsPlato: Ethics, Misc
  •  95
    Martha Nussbaum’s Symposium
    Ancient Philosophy 11 (2): 285-299. 1991.
    ClassicsPlato: Symposium
  •  58
    Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato's Phaedrus
    with G. R. F. Ferrari
    Philosophical Review 99 (3): 447. 1990.
    Plato: Phaedrus
  •  82
    Loving Persons Platonically
    Phronesis 26 (1). 1981.
    Plato: ErosPlato: Friendship
  •  11
    Love's Confusions (review)
    Philosophy 80 (4): 604-606. 2005.
    Philosophy of Love
  •  61
    Essays on the nicomachean ethics. D. Henry, K.m. Nielsen bridging the gap between Aristotle's science and ethics. Pp. XIV + 304. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2015. Cased, £70, us$110. Isbn: 978-1-107-01036-9 (review)
    The Classical Review 66 (2): 368-369. 2016.
    Aristotle: EthicsAristotle: Natural Science
  •  70
    Colloquium 6: Was Aristotle a Particularist?
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 21 (1): 191-233. 2006.
    Moral Particularism
  •  51
    Colloquium 1
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 28-33. 1990.
    Plato's Works
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    Choice and Action in Aristotle
    Phronesis 61 (4): 435-462. 2016.
    There is a current debate about the grammar of intention: do I intend to φ, or that I φ? The equivalent question in Aristotle relates especially to choice. I argue that, in the context of practical reasoning, choice, as also wish, has as its object an act. I then explore the role that this plays within his account of the relation of thought to action. In particular, I discuss the relation of deliberation to the practical syllogism, and the thesis that the conclusion of the second is an action.
    Aristotle: Voluntary and InvoluntaryPractical Reason, Misc
  •  87
    Before Sexuality (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 13 (2): 481-488. 1993.
    Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Misc
  •  239
    Are Plato’s Soul-Parts Psychological Subjects?
    Ancient Philosophy 29 (1): 1-15. 2009.
    It is well-known that Plato’s Republic introduces a tripartition of the incarnate human soul; yet quite how to interpret his ‘parts’ 1 is debated. On a strong reading, they are psychological subjects – much as we take ourselves to be, but homunculi, not homines. On a weak reading, they are something less paradoxical: aspects of ourselves, identified by characteristic mental states, dispositional and occurrent, that tend to come into conflict. Christopher Bobonich supports the strong reading in h…Read more
    It is well-known that Plato’s Republic introduces a tripartition of the incarnate human soul; yet quite how to interpret his ‘parts’ 1 is debated. On a strong reading, they are psychological subjects – much as we take ourselves to be, but homunculi, not homines. On a weak reading, they are something less paradoxical: aspects of ourselves, identified by characteristic mental states, dispositional and occurrent, that tend to come into conflict. Christopher Bobonich supports the strong reading in his Plato’s Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics. In his The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, Hendrik Lorenz agrees with Bobonich that the parts of the soul are ‘the subjects or bearers of psychological states’. Any ascription to my Mental Conflict of the opposed, weak view needs qualification: my Plato is highly ambivalent.2 But my intention here is less to defend an earlier self – though I predict failing to escape it – than to reconsider tripartition in the Republic in the light of Bobonich’s virtuosity and Lorenz’s lucidity. They persuade me of the inexhaustibility of the text, notably within Book 4 from 436 to 439. About these pages we may indeed disagree: they find them decisive in favour of their view, as I don’t. When Socrates remarks, ‘Let us have our understanding still more precise, lest as we proceed we become involved in dispute’, he was not anticipating the dissensions of interpreters.
    Plato: Philosophy of Mind, MiscClassicsPlato: Divided Soul
  •  55
    Aristotle on Thought and Feeling
    Philosophical Review 131 (2): 219-222. 2022.
    Aristotle
  •  81
    Aristotle (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 21 (1): 215-223. 2001.
    Aristotle's WorksClassical Greek Philosophy
  •  51
    Akrasia in Greek Philosophy (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 29 (2): 486-490. 2009.
    PlotinusAncient Greek and Roman Ethics
  •  94
    Aristotle's ethical holism
    Mind 89 (355): 338-352. 1980.
    Aristotle
  •  39
    Aristotle's ethics
    Journal of Medical Ethics 11 (3): 150-152. 1985.
    How are we to understand Aristotle's famous doctrine of the mean? "If ten pounds are too much for a particular person to eat and two too little, it does not follow that the trainer will order six pounds"... In fact, the relation of morality to physical health is more intimate than mere analogy. Emotions involve a bodily process (cp On the Soul 403al6ff): for example, 'Anger is productive of heat' (On the Parts ofAnimals 650b35), while 'Fear is, indeed, a kind of chill' (Rhetoric 1389b32). The ho…Read more
    How are we to understand Aristotle's famous doctrine of the mean? "If ten pounds are too much for a particular person to eat and two too little, it does not follow that the trainer will order six pounds"... In fact, the relation of morality to physical health is more intimate than mere analogy. Emotions involve a bodily process (cp On the Soul 403al6ff): for example, 'Anger is productive of heat' (On the Parts ofAnimals 650b35), while 'Fear is, indeed, a kind of chill' (Rhetoric 1389b32). The hot temper of youth and the cool temper of old age, to take two extremes, are corollaries of physical extremes, of literal heat and cold respectively (Rhetoric 1389a2ff). In general, moral as well as bodily excellences are supervenient upon physical states; specific to moral excellence is what it supervenes upon, viz bodily pleasures and plains (Physics 246b3-247a20, an early passage not relevantly superseded). Health and virtue are both grounded upon the physiological condition of a psycho-physical entity... Yet it is hard to view the physiology of virtue as more than a general precondition. It more satisfactorily identifies natural virtue than virtue proper. The blood of young men is heated by nature (as though by wine), so that they are hot-tempered and hopeful; this makes them less timorous and more confident, and so more courageous, than the old (Rhetoric 1389al8ff). But the properly brave man is one 'who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time' (11 5b1b7ff)
    Biomedical EthicsAristotleAristotle: Ethics
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