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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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10Protagoras (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1976.In this dialogue Plato shows the pretensions of the leading sophist, Protagoras, challenged by the critical arguments of Socrates. The dialogue broadens out to consider the nature of the good life and the role of intellect and pleasure.
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10Human agency: language, duty, and value: philosophical essays in honor of J.O. Urmson (edited book, review)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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SocratesIn Ted Honderich (ed.), The philosophers: introducing great western thinkers, Oxford University Press. 1995.
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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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68Plato, 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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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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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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