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100Human agency: language, duty, and value: philosophical essays in honor of J.O. Urmson (edited book)Stanford University Press. 1988.The essays in this volume explore current work in central areas of philosophy, work unified by attention to salient questions of human action and human agency. They ask what it is for humans to act knowledgeably, to use language, to be friends, to act heroically, to be mortally fortunate, and to produce as well as to appreciate art. The volume is dedicated to J. O. Urmson, in recognition of his inspirational contributions to these areas. All the essays but one have been specially written for thi…Read more
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6'All Perceptions are True'In Malcolm Schofield, Myles Burnyeat & Jonathan Barnes (eds.), Doubt and dogmatism: studies in Hellenistic epistemology, Oxford University Press. 1980.
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3Plato's TotalitarianismIn Gail Fine (ed.), Plato, Volume 2: Ethics, Politics, Religious and the Soul, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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11Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and CommentaryOxford University Press UK. 2006.This volume, which is part of the Clarendon Aristotle Series, offers a clear and faithful new translation of Books II to IV of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accompanied by an analytical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV, Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character in general and of the principal virtues individually, topics of central interest both to his ethical theory and to modern ethical theorists. Consequently major themes of the commentary are connecti…Read more
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3From the Beginning to Plato: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 1 (edited book)Routledge. 2003.This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC.
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9Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2006.This volume, which is part of the Clarendon Aristotle Series, offers a clear and faithful new translation of Books II to IV of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accompanied by an analytical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV, Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character in general and of the principal virtues individually, topics of central interest both to his ethical theory and to modern ethical theorists. Consequently major themes of the commentary are connecti…Read more
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27Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books Ii--Iv: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.This volume, which is part of the Clarendon Aristotle Series, offers a clear and faithful new translation of Books II to IV of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accompanied by an analytical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV, Aristotle gives his account of virtue of character in general and of the principal virtues individually, topics of central interest both to his ethical theory and to modern ethical theorists. Consequently major themes of the commentary are connecti…Read more
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19Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xvi, 1998 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1998.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual volume of original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. The 1998 volume is broad in scope, as ever, featuring four articles on Aristotle, two on Plato, and one each on Xenophanes, the Atomists, and Plutarch.
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13Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xi: 1993 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1993.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. Contributors to this volume; Paul A. Vander Waerdt, Christopher Rowe, Rachel Rue, Paula Gottlieb, Robert Bolton, and John M. Cooper.
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xii: 1994 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1994.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.
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6Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xiii: 1995 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1995.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.
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6Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xiv, 1996 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1996.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.
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1Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xv, 1997 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1997.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books. 'an excellent periodical' Mary Margaret MacKenzie, Times Literary Supplement.
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54Pleasure, mind, and soul: selected papers in ancient philosophyOxford University Press. 2007.C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists, showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists. Pleasure, Mind, …Read more
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23Socrates and the State Richard Kraut: Socrates and the State. Pp. xii + 338. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. £18.60 (review)The Classical Review 35 (01): 63-65. 1985.
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53Plato's Protagoras- Larry Goldberg: A Commentary on Plato's Protagoras. Pp. 352. New York, Berne, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1983. Paper, 64 Sw. frs (review)The Classical Review 35 (01): 67-68. 1985.
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16Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to PlotinusPhilosophical Review 122 (4): 667-670. 2013.
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41Plato and the Written Word Wolfgang Wieland: Platon und die Formen des Wissens. Pp. 339. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. DM. 72 (paper, DM. 59) (review)The Classical Review 33 (01): 58-60. 1983.
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41Plato and the mathematicians: An examination of professor Hare's viewsPhilosophical Quarterly 17 (68): 193-203. 1967.197: on logon didonai as giving a proof. In answer to Plato's charge that mathematicians take as their starting point certain unproved assumptions, and call upon them to "give an account" of them in the sense of deriving them from some more basic principle or principles
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24Plato and the Written Word - Wolfgang Wieland: Platon und die Formen des Wissens. Pp. 339. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. DM. 72 (review)The Classical Review 33 (1): 58-60. 1983.
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238Nomos and phusis in democritus and PlatoSocial Philosophy and Policy 24 (2): 1-20. 2007.This essay explores the treatment of the relation between nature (phusis) and norm or convention (nomos) in Democritus and in certain Platonic dialogues. In his physical theory Democritus draws a sharp contrast between the real nature of things and their representation via human conventions, but in his political and ethical theory he maintains that moral conventions are grounded in the reality of human nature. Plato builds on that insight in the account of the nature of morality in the myth in t…Read more