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42Theories of retailingIn Michael John Baker & Michael Saren (eds.), Marketing Theory: A Student Text, Sage Publications. pp. 345. 2010.
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36The Cambridge companion to the Sophists (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2023.A comprehensive introduction to the Classical Greek sophists, placing them afresh in their cultural context. These public figures, such as Protagoras and Gorgias, were wide-ranging experts before discipline-specialization, and represent the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and philosophical reflection in the time of Socrates.
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29Promêtheia as Rational Agency in PlatoApeiron 54 (1): 89-107. 2020.The Greeks knew a virtue term that represented the ability to determine which norms deserved commitment, a virtue term usually misunderstood as “prediction of likely outcomes” or “being hesitant”:promêtheia. Plato’s uses of this term, almost completely ignored by scholarship, show a sensitivity to the prerequisites for the capacity for rational agency. We must add this virtue term to the usual suspects related to acting as a rational agent:sôphrosunê, dikaiosunê, phrônesis, andsophia.Promêtheias…Read more
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33Heracles the Philosopher (Herodorus, Fr. 14)Classical Quarterly 67 (1): 27-48. 2017.Among our earliest extant references to the word ‘philosophize’ is an unfamiliar one, from the mythographer Herodorus of Pontic Heraclea, whose son Bryson associated with Plato and Aristotle. A Byzantine compiler quotes Herodorus, probably from his book on Heracles, as saying that his hero ‘philosophized until death’ (φιλοσοφήσας μέχρι θανάτου,FGrHist31 F 14). This is a surprising claim in light of the fifth/fourth-centuryb.c.view of Heracles as long-toiling but not intellectual. Euripides'Licym…Read more
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11PRESOCRATIC TEXTS FROM HERCULANEUM - (C.) Vassallo The Presocratics at Herculaneum. A Study of Early Greek Philosophy in the Epicurean Tradition. (Studi Praesocratica 11.) Pp. xxii + 763. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Cased, £118, €129.95, US$149.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-072698-5 (review)The Classical Review 73 (2): 419-420. 2023.
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17MORE ON AETIUS - (J.) Mansfeld, (D.) Runia (edd.) Aëtiana V. An Edition of the Reconstructed Text of the Placita with a Commentary and a Collection of Related Texts. (Philosophia Antiqua 153.) Pp. xxii + 717 (Part 1); xviii + 628 (Part 2); xviii + 711 (Part 3); vi + 259 (Part 4). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Cased, €630, US$756. ISBN: 978-90-04-42838-6 (review)The Classical Review 72 (1): 101-103. 2022.
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15The Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life) by Aristoxenus of TarentumJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (1): 145-146. 2021.Like his fellow first-generation Peripatetic Theophrastus, Aristoxenus wrote an extraordinary number of works. Many concerned music; one on Socrates contained evidence independent of Plato and Xenophon. At least five concerned Pythagoreanism: The Life of Pythagoras, On Pythagoras and His Associates, On the Pythagorean Way of Life, Life of Archytas, and the Pythagorean Precepts. This last one, as Carl Huffman...
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20Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a DisciplinePrinceton University Press. 2019.An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher" Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece. Tracing the evolution of the word's meaning over its first two centuries, Christopher Moore shows how it first referred to aspiring political sages and advice-givers, then to avid conversationalists ab…Read more
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49Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates (edited book)Brill. 2019.Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides three-dozen studies of nearly 2500 continuous years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates as innovative intellectual, moral exemplar, and singular Athenian.
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56Narrative Constitution of FriendshipDialogue 56 (1): 111-130. 2017.We argue that friendship is constituted in the practice of narration, not merely identifi ed through psychological or sociological criteria. We show that whether two people have, as Aristotle argues, ‘lived together’ in ‘mutually acknowledged goodwill’ can be determined only through a narrative reconstruction of a shared past. We demonstrate this with a close reading of Thomas Bernhard’s Wittgenstein’s Nephew: A Friendship (1982). We argue that this book provides not only an illustration b…Read more
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18Review Article: Socrates Among the MythographersPolis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 30 (1): 106-118. 2013.
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2Charmides / Plato; translated, with introduction, notes, and analysis by Christopher Moore and Christopher C. RaymondHackett Publishing Company, Inc.. 2019.
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22Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Perikles’ Athens, written by Robert W. WallacePolis 35 (1): 277-281. 2018.
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38Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure, written by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork (review)Polis 31 (2): 460-465. 2014.
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34Aristotle on PhilosophiaMetaphilosophy 50 (3): 339-360. 2019.Aristotle uses philosophia (and philosophos, philosophein, philosophôs, sumphilosophein, philosophêteon) in at least ten senses across his oeuvre, as this first study of every instance in his writings reveals. Irrespective of the specific approaches of its practitioners, philosophia may be, for example, an exercise of cleverness; or leisurely study; or the desire to know; or the pursuit of fundamental explanation; or a historically extended discipline. This variety allows us to go some way in re…Read more
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28Plato on the Value of Philosophy: The Art of Argument in the Gorgias and Phaedrus. By Tushar IraniAncient Philosophy 39 (1): 238-243. 2019.
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17'Philosophy' in Plato's PhaedrusPlato Journal 15 59-79. 2015.The Phaedrus depicts the Platonic Socrates’ most explicit exhortation to ‘philosophy’. The dialogue thereby reveals something of his idea of its nature. Unfortunately, what it reveals has been obscured by two habits in the scholarship: to ignore the remarks Socrates makes about ‘philosophy’ that do not arise in the ‘Palinode’; and to treat many of those remarks as parodies of Isocrates’ competing definition of the term. I remove these obscurities by addressing all fourteen remarks about ‘philoso…Read more
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14Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue (edited book)Brill. 2017._Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue_ provides the most complete study of the immediate literary reaction to Socrates, by his contemporaries and the first-generation Socratics, and of the writings from Aristotle to Proclus addressing Socrates and the literary work he inspired.
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85Socratic Persuasion in the CritoBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (6): 1021-1046. 2011.Socrates does not use the Laws' Speech in the Crito principally to persuade Crito to accept his coming execution. It is used instead to persuade Crito to examine and work on his inadequate view of justice. Crito's view of justice fails to coordinate one's duties to friends and those to the law. The Laws' Speech accomplishes this persuasive goal by accompanying Crito’s earlier speech. Both start from the same view of justice, one that Crito accepts, but reach opposing conclusions. Crito cannot ju…Read more
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The myth of Theuth in the PhaedrusIn Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and myth: studies on the use and status of Platonic myths, Brill. 2012.
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29Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants. Plato’s Gorgias and the Politics of Shame. By Christina H. Tarnopolsky (review)Ancient Philosophy 33 (1): 202-209. 2013.
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Pennsylvania State UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Classics and Ancient Mediterranean StudiesAssociate Professor
APA Eastern Division