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2Was Aristotle a Particularist?Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 21 191-212. 2005.
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2 Aristotle, the Stoics and the willIn Thomas Pink & Martin William Francis Stone (eds.), The Will and Human Action: From Antiquity to the Present Day, Routledge. pp. 29. 2003.
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Aristotelian Virtue and Practical JudgementIn Christopher Gill (ed.), Virtue, norms, and objectivity: issues in ancient and modern ethics, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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84Varieties of pleasure in Plato and AristotleOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 52 177-208. 2017.
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30On the so-called Logic of Practical InferenceRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 54 119-140. 2004.Different questions generate different forms of practical reasoning. A contextually unrestricted ‘What shall I do?’ is too open to focus reflection. More determinately, an agent may ask, ‘Shall I do X, or Y?’ To answer that, he may need to weigh things up—as fits the derivation of ‘deliberation’ fromlibra(Latin for ‘scales’). Ubiquitous and indispensable though this is, I mention it only to salute it in passing. Or he may ask how to achieve a proposed end: if his end is to do X, he may ask ‘How …Read more
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76Introduction: The Promise of ApathyCommon Knowledge 15 (3): 340-347. 2009.This essay is the journal editor's introduction to part 3 of an ongoing symposium on quietism. With reference to writings of James Joyce, Francis Picabia, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Elaine Pagels, and Karen King—and with extended reference to Jonathan Lear's study of “cultural devastation,” Radical Hope—Jeffrey Perl explores the possibility that the fear of anomie (“anomiphobia”) is misplaced. He argues that, in comparison with the violence and narrowness of any given soc…Read more
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53Reviews slaves of the passions . By mark Schroeder. Oxford university press, 2007, pp. IX + 224, £34Philosophy 84 (2): 291-295. 2009.
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93Intuitions of fittingnessCommon Knowledge 15 (3): 348-364. 2009.In one sense of the term current among analytical philosophers, the quietist_lacks skeptical doubts about the metaphysical or epistemological status of ethical judgments as a class of judgment. He may still have doubts about, say, the current state of morality. There are criteria of courage by which, though they are open-ended, a man may count as acting bravely. It need not follow that he has adopted the best tactics. Yet he must have responded fittingly to danger. But how is that to be identifi…Read more
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33Being Realistic about Reasons, by T. M. ScanlonMind 125 (500): 1270-1273. 2016.Being Realistic about Reasons, by ScanlonT. M.. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 132.
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34Acrasia and self-controlIn 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.
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30Virtue and Knowledge: an Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics (review)The Classical Review 41 (2): 499-500. 1991.
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5The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter By Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. xv + 224, £30 ISBN 978-0-19-873365-2 (review)Philosophy 91 (3): 450-453. 2016.
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34The Posterior Analytics - Jonathan Barnes: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Pp. xix + 277. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Cloth, £7 (review)The Classical Review 28 (1): 86-87. 1978.
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18The conclusion is an actionPhilosophical Explorations 23 (2): 160-166. 2020.Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2020, Page 160-166.
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66Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning, by Jonathan DancyMind 129 (513): 314-323. 2020._ Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning _, by DancyJonathan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 185.
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18Praktisches Folgern und Selbst gestaltung nach Aristoteles (review)The Classical Review 34 (1): 134-135. 1984.
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