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223Nomos 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
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184Berkeley's theory of abstract ideasPhilosophical Quarterly 28 (111): 97-115. 1978.While claiming to refute locke's theory of abstract ideas, Berkeley himself accepts a form of abstractionism. Locke's account of abstraction is indeterminate between two doctrines: 1) abstract ideas are representations of paradigm instances of kinds, 2) abstract ideas are schematic representations of the defining features of kinds. Berkeley's arguments are directed exclusively against 2, And refute only a specific version of it, Which there is no reason to ascribe to locke; berkeley himself acce…Read more
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61Plato, Hare and Davidson on akrasiaMind 89 (356): 499-518. 1980.Davidson poses the problem via three propositions p1-P3, Each persuasive but apparently inconsistent. His solution, That the three are consistent, Merely re-Phrases the problem. We should rather reject p2; if an agent judges that it would be better to do "x" than to do "y", Then he wants to do "x" more than he wants to do "y". Plato accepts p2 because he thinks all agents predominantly self-Interested, And hare because he thinks that evaluative judgments imply desires; both are criticized. An al…Read more
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52Pleasure, 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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48Plato'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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45A Lifetime's Devotion to Philosophy Suzanne Mansion (intr., indices & bibliography by J. Follon): Études Aristotéliciennes. Recueil d'Articles. (Aristote, Traductions et Études.) Pp. xxi + 550. Louvain-la-Neuve: Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, 1984. B. frs. 1300 (review)The Classical Review 36 (01): 72-73. 1986.
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44The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos (review)The Classical Review 42 (1): 205-206. 1992.
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43Studies in greek philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.Studies in Greek Philosophy. Gregory Vlastos. Edited by Daniel W. Graham. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. Volume I The Presocratics pp. xxxiv + 389; Volume II Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition pp. xxiv + 349. 40 per volume (hb.), ISBN 0-691-03310-2, 0-691-03311-0; 14.50 per volume (pb.), ISBN 0-691-01937-1, 0-691-01938-X.
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35Plato 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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35Socratic Perplexity and the nature of philosophy (review)Ancient Philosophy 20 (2): 451-454. 2000.
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34Plato 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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33Wolfgang Maria Zeitler: Entscheidungsfreiheit bei Platon. (Zetemata, 78.) Pp. xi + 191. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1983. Paper, DM. 59 (review)The Classical Review 34 (2): 333-334. 1984.
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32The Charmides - Berndt Witte: Die Wissenschaft vom Guten und Bösen: Interpretationen zu Platons ‘Charmides’. (Unters. z. Ant. Lit. u. Gesch., 5.) Pp. vii+166. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1970. Cloth, DM. 48 (review)The Classical Review 22 (02): 196-198. 1972.