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7What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. However, scholarship has paid little attention to these issues and to the surprisingly "modern" development they received in Presocratics' doctrines. This book fills this lacuna through a detailed (and largely unpr…Read more
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23Plants and Vegetal Respiration in Early Greek PhilosophyAncient Philosophy 43 (1): 251-272. 2023.This essay pursues the question of vegetal respiration in Presocratics’ doctrines in contrast to Aristotle’s categorical circumscription of this vital process to the blooded animals. It finds that epithelial respiration in DK31 B100 is central to Empedocles’ conception of plants’ breathing, linked to their fructification, deciduousness, and overall life preservation. It also discusses plants’ respiration in relation to their body temperature in Menestor, then, concludes by analyzing Democritus’ …Read more
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7Plants' Interconnected Lives: From Ovid's Myths to Presocratic Thought and BeyondArion 24 (2): 101. 2016.
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19Aristotle and the Animals: The Logos of Life ItselfRoutledge. 2021.With a novel approach to Aristotle's zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals' bodies empowering them to sense the world and live. The volume explores Aristotle's conception of animals through a discussion of his ad hoc methodology to study them, including the pertinence of the soul to such a study, and the rise of zoology as a branch of n…Read more
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24Interconnectedness: The Living World of the Early Greek PhilosophersAcademia Verlag. 2017.What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. However, scholarship has paid little attention to these issues and to the surprisingly "modern" development they received in Presocratics' doctrines. This book fills this lacuna through a detailed analysis of the e…Read more
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15Democritus and folly: The two wise FoolsBibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance 63 (3): 533-549. 2001.
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62Conflict, People, and City-Space: Some Exempla from Thucydides' HistoryClassical Antiquity 30 (2): 318-350. 2011.This essay considers episodes in which phenomena like war and civil strife affected, changed, and revealed the identity of the polis. Even if framed by an understanding of the Peloponnesian War and the imperialistic logic and destiny of Athens, Thucydides' History still provides us with narratives that illuminate the particular history of “minor” poleis, each with its specific events, turning points, and dynamics. Through analysis of Thucydides' historical material, this essay focuses on Plataea…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Biology |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |