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Linguistic theory and dialectical rules in the topicsIn Ricardo Santos & Antonio Pedro Mesquita (eds.), New Essays on Aristotle's Organon, Routledge. 2023.
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163Review: Aristotle’s Syllogistic Underlying Logic: His Model with His Proofs of Soundness and Completeness (review)History and Philosophy of Logic (4). 2023.This book presents a (new) attempt to apply the notion of an underlying logic to Aristotle’s Organon and certain passages of the Metaphysics. The author situates his approach as part of a ‘deductio...
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138Δόξαι and the Tools of Dialectic in De anima I.1–3In Pavel Gregoric & Jakob Leth Fink (eds.), Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind, Routledge. 2021.
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34Norms of Public Argumentation and the Ideals of Correctness and ParticipationArgumentation 38 (1): 7-40. 2024.Argumentation as the public exchange of reasons is widely thought to enhance deliberative interactions that generate and justify reasonable public policies. Adopting an argumentation-theoretic perspective, we survey the norms that should govern public argumentation and address some of the complexities that scholarly treatments have identified. Our focus is on norms associated with the ideals of correctness and participation as sources of a politically legitimate deliberative outcome. In principl…Read more
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119Word, thought, and object in Aristotle's De int. 14 and Metaphysics Γ3Studia Philosophica 80. 2021.The discussion of the Principle of Non-Contradiction (PNC) in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Γ is usually taken to include three ‘versions’ of the principle: an ontological, psychological, and logical one. In this article I develop an interpretation of Metaphysics Γ3 and a parallel text, De interpretatione 14, in order to show that these texts are concerned with two related but different principles: a version of the Principle of Identity, and a corollary to this, which concerns the ability to accept tw…Read more
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11Historical Fallacies of HistoriansIn Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Philosophers' fallacies and historians' fallacies Five Historical Fallacies Historical Fallacies of Philosophers and the Relationship of Philosophy to its History Bibliography Further Reading.
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178Adversarial argumentation and common ground in Aristotle’s Sophistical RefutationsTopoi 40 (5): 939-950. 2021.In this paper I provide support for the view that at least some forms of adversariality in argumentation are legitimate. The support comes from Aristotle’s theory of illegitimate adversarial argumentation in dialectical contexts: his theory of eristic in his work On Sophistical Refutations. Here Aristotle develops non-epistemic standards for evaluating the legitimacy of dialectical procedures, standards which I propose can be understood in terms of the pragmatic notion of context as common groun…Read more
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82PrefaceIn Christof Rapp, Colin G. King & Gerald Hartung (eds.), Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, De Gruyter. 2018.
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21Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy (edited book)De Gruyter. 2018.Aristotelian philosophy played an important part in the history of 19th century philosophy and science but has been largely neglected by researchers. A key element in the newly emerging historiography of ancient philosophy, Aristotelian philosophy served at the same time as a corrective guide in a wide range of projects in philosophy. This volume examines both aspects of this reception history.
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212Introduction: Contours of Aristotelian Studies in the 19th CenturyIn Christof Rapp, Colin G. King & Gerald Hartung (eds.), Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 1-10. 2018.
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16On the Parts of Animals (review) (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 99 (2): 188-189. 2006.
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109False ἔvδοξα and fallacious argumentationHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 15 (1): 185-199. 2012.Aristotle determines eristic argument as argument which either operates upon the basis of acceptable premisses and merely give the impression of being deductive, or argument which truly is deductive but operates upon the basis of premisses which seem to be acceptable, but are not. I attempt to understand what Aristotle has in mind when he says that someone is deceived into accepting premisses which seem to be acceptable but which are really not, and how this disqualifies such arguments from bein…Read more
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Nicomachean Ethics. Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 60 (3). 2006.
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136Hamid Taieb, Relational Intentionality: Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition (review)Ancient Philosophy Today 2 (2): 183-189. 2020.
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141Colloquium 5 Commentary on SzaifProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 34 (1): 179-186. 2019.In this response I consider the implications of Jan Szaif’s suggestion that there is a tight “conceptual affinity” between Books I and X of the Nicomachean Ethics. I argue against one view which could claim such a thesis as an ally: the view which maintains that the Nicomachean Ethics is based upon the kind of conceptual cohesion supplied by a supposed metaphysical foundation for claims about happiness.
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16Alexander Jones . Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity. 206 pp., tables, illus., bibl. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2016. $55 (review)Isis 109 (2): 376-377. 2018.
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131Aristotle on Earlier Greek Psychology: The Science of the Soul by Jason W. Carter (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 58 (2): 400-401. 2020.Once upon a time in the twentieth century, it was considered good sense by some to think that Aristotle began his De anima with a series of very Aristotelian theories about the soul, and that the function of its first book was to eristically taunt his predecessors for failing to appreciate hylomorphism, or patronizingly praise them for getting the odd bit right. Jason Carter deserves our thanks for showing how wrong-headed this reading of Aristotle is. His book begins with the much more sensible…Read more
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226Aristotle’s Categories in the 19th CenturyIn Christof Rapp, Colin G. King & Gerald Hartung (eds.), Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 11-36. 2018.
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14Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2020.The conceptualization of the vital force of living beings as a kind of breath and heat is at least as old as Homer. The assumptions that life and living things were somehow causally related to 'heat' and 'breath' would go on to inform much of ancient medicine and philosophy. This is the first volume to consider the relationship of the notions of heat, breath, and soul in ancient Greek philosophy and science from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Bringing together specialists both on early Greek phi…Read more
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