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4The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2024.The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy is an essential reference source for cutting-edge scholarship on women, gender, and philosophy in Greek antiquity. The volume features original research that crosses disciplines, offering readers an accessible guide to new methods, new sources, and new questions in the study of ancient Greek philosophy and its multiple afterlives. Comprising 40 chapters from a diverse international group of experts, the Handbook considers questions abo…Read more
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19Like-Mindedness: Plato’s Solution to the Problem of FactionIn Gerasimos Santas & Georgios Anagnostopoulos (eds.), Democracy, Justice, and Equality in Ancient Greece: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 139-159. 2018.Plato recognizes faction as a serious threat to any political community. The Republic’s proposed solution to faction relies on bringing citizens into a relation of ὁμόνοια. On the dominant line of interpretation, ὁμόνοια is understood along the lines of “explicit agreement” or “consensus.” Commentators have consequently thought that the καλλίπολις becomes resistant to faction when all or most of its members explicitly agree with one another about certain fundamentals of their political associati…Read more
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15Swillsburg City LimitsPolis 21 (1-2): 70-92. 2004.At Republic 370c–372d, Plato presents us with an early polis that is self-sufficient, peaceful, cooperative, and which provides a comfortable life for its inhabitants. While Glaucon derides this polis as a ‘city for pigs’, Socrates is quick to defend its virtues characterizing it as a city which is not only ‘complete’, but a ‘true’ and ‘healthy’ city. Is Plato sincere when he lauds the city of pigs? if so, why does the city of pigs degenerate so precipitously into the luxurious city? Some commen…Read more
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20Plato's Republic_ and functional teleology - (A.) Payne the teleology of action in Plato's _Republic. Pp. VIII + 240. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2017. Cased, £45. Isbn: 978-0-19-879902-3 (review)The Classical Review 69 (2): 393-395. 2019.
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The Best Things: Primary Substances in Aristotle's OntologyDissertation, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick. 2001.In this dissertation I explain and defend the theory of substance Aristotle presents in the Categories. In the Categories, primary substances enjoy a degree of ontologrelative to other existents. Furthermore, Aristotle finds in the Categories at a subset of concrete particulars, the animate individuals, best meet certain independence conditions and thus, best qualify as primary substances. There has been a scholarly consensus that the theory of the Categories is---at worst---internally incoheren…Read more
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143Why women must guard and rule in Plato's kallipolisPacific Philosophical Quarterly 87 (4). 2006.Plato's discussion of women in the Republic is problematic. For one, arguments in Book V which purport to establish that women should guard and rule alongside men do not deliver the advertised conclusion. In addition, Plato asserts that women are "weaker in all pursuits" than men. Given this assumption, having women guard and rule seems inimical to the health, security, and goodness of the kallipolis. I argue that we best understand the inclusion of women by seeing how women's inclusion contribu…Read more
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55“Standing apart in the shelter of the city wall”: The contemplative ideal vs. the politically engaged philosopher in Plato's political theorySouthern Journal of Philosophy 48 (2): 197-216. 2010.Natural philosophers seem to have good reasons to prefer that the kallipolis, the maximally just community of the Republic, is never realized. If such a community is realized, philosophers are under the obligation of a just demand that they govern. However, a life that contains governance as a significant part is not the happiest life a philosopher can live. The happiest life for a philosopher is one consisting entirely or largely in philosophical contemplation. I confront this puzzle by arguing…Read more
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20A Mind of One's Own. Feminist Essays on Reason and ObjectivityPhilosophical Books 35 (3): 189-192. 1994.
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18Swillsburg City Limits: The 'City of Pigs': Republic 370c-372dPolis 21 (1-2): 70-92. 2004.At Republic 370c-372d, Plato presents us with an early polis that is self-sufficient, peaceful, cooperative, and which provides a comfortable life for its inhabitants. While Glaucon derides this polis as a 'city for pigs', Socrates is quick to defend its virtues characterizing it as a city which is not only 'complete' , but a 'true' and 'healthy' city . Is Plato sincere when he lauds the city of pigs? If so, why does the city of pigs degenerate so precipitously into the luxurious city ? Some com…Read more