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177Episteme, demonstration, and explanation: A fresh look at Aristotle’s Posterior AnalyticsMetascience 23 (1): 1-35. 2014.
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Aristotle on multiple demonstration : a reading of posterior analytics II 17-18In Ricardo Santos & Antonio Pedro Mesquita (eds.), New Essays on Aristotle's Organon, Routledge. 2023.
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27Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration: a Reading of Posterior Analytics II 17-8In Ricardo Santos & Antonio Pedro Mesquita (eds.), New Essays on Aristotle's Organon, Routledge. pp. 170-190. 2023.
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13Aristotle and the Eleatic One, by Timothy ClarkeMind 131 (524): 1303-1311. 2021.Is reality one or many? If one, is there exactly one thing or exactly one kind of thing? And is this one (kind of) thing material or immaterial? These questions.
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Aristotle’s Virtue EpistemologyIn Stephen Hetherington & Nicholas Smith (eds.), What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology, 157–177. 2021.Contemporary virtue epistemologists argue that cognitive acts are knowledge by issuing from capacities that constitute intellectual virtues. This chapter argues that Aristotle rejects this thesis in favour of the view that capacities constitute intellectual virtues by issuing in cognitive acts that are knowledge.
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1Aristotle as Systematic Philosopher: Essence, Necessity, and Explanation in Theory and PracticeIn Stephen Hetherington (ed.), What Makes a Philosopher Great? Arguments for Twelve Philosophers, Routledge. 2017.
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3Review of From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle, by Mariska Leunissen (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018. 2018.
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18Learning from Models: 277c7–283a9In Panos Dimas, Melissa Lane & Susan Sauvé Meyer (eds.), Plato’s Statesman: a Philosophical Discussion, Oxford University Press. 2021.This chapter examines Plato’s account of the method of learning by paradeigma (‘model’) in the Statesman. I first explain what the method is. I then consider the two parties who are described as using it: children who are learning to read and write and the dialogue’s two interlocutors. I highlight some parallels between each party’s use of the method. These parallels illuminate important features of dialectical inquiry in general and the Visitor and Young Socrates’ inquiry in particular, includi…Read more
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34Investigação e Paradoxo do Mênon: Aristóteles, Segundos Analíticos II 8Dois Pontos 7 (3). 2010.Este artigo discute certos problemas que aparecem na teoria aristotélica da investigaçãocientífica no capítulo 8 do livro II dos Segundos Analíticos de Aristóteles. Aristótelesdistingue três estágios de investigação científica. Meu ponto é que a teoria aristotélicada investigação científica consegue evitar o paradoxo de Mênon – sobre a impossibilidadede qualquer investigação – apenas se o segundo estágio reconhecido por Aristóteles, oestágio em que se estabelece que o objeto existe, for entendid…Read more
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57Review of The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno’s Paradox from Socrates to Sextus, by Gail Fine (review)Mind 126 (502): 631-634. 2017.The Possibility of Inquiry: Meno’s Paradox from Socrates to Sextus, by FineGail. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 399.
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213The Origin and Aim of Posterior Analytics II.19Phronesis 57 (1): 29-62. 2012.Abstract In Posterior Analytics II.19 Aristotle raises and answers the question, how do first principles become known? The usual view is that the question asks about the process or method by which we learn principles and that his answer is induction. I argue that the question asks about the original prior knowledge from which principles become known and that his answer is perception. Hence the aim of II.19 is not to explain how we get all the way to principles but to defend the claim that our kn…Read more
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61Essence, Necessity, and Demonstration in AristotlePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (3): 724-732. 2015.
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85Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Theory of Innate KnowledgeHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 19 (1): 126-139. 2016.In Posterior Analytics 2.19, Aristotle argues that we cannot have innate knowledge of first principles because if we did we would have the most precise items of knowledge without noticing, which is impossible. To understand Aristotle’s argument we need to understand why he thinks we cannot possess these items of knowledge without noticing. In this paper, I present three different answers to this question and three different readings of his argument corresponding to them. The first two readings f…Read more
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84Is Plato an Innatist in the Meno?Phronesis 64 (4): 392-430. 2019.Plato in the Meno is standardly interpreted as committed to condition innatism: human beings are born with latent innate states of knowledge. Against this view, Gail Fine has argued for prenatalism: human souls possess knowledge in a disembodied state but lose it upon being embodied. We argue against both views and in favor of content innatism: human beings are born with innate cognitive contents that can be, but do not exist innately in the soul as, the contents of states of knowledge. Content …Read more
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406Aristotle on predication and demonstrationManuscrito 42 (4): 85-121. 2019.I argue against the standard interpretation of Aristotle’s account of ‘natural predication’ in Posterior Analytics 1.19 and 1.22 according to which only substances can serve as subjects in such predications. I argue that this interpretation cannot accommodate a number of demonstrations Aristotle sanctions. I propose a new interpretation that can accommodate them.
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40Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior AnalyticsOxford University Press UK. 2016.David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics--one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy--by arguing that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest: knowledge and learning. He argues that the Posterior Analytics is a sustained examination of scientific knowledge, an elegantly organized work in which Aristotle describes the mind's ascent from sense-perception of particulars to scientific knowled…Read more
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21Eleatic Ontology in Aristotle: IntroductionPeitho 12 (1): 13-17. 2021.The introduction summarizes the six new papers collected in Volume 1, Tome 5: Eleatic Ontology and Aristotle. The papers take a fresh look at virtually every aspect of Aristotle’s engagement with Eleaticism. They are particularly concerned with Aristotle’s responses to Parmenidean monism, the Eleatic rejection of change, and Zeno’s paradoxes. The contributions also focus on the ways in which Aristotle developed several of his own theories in metaphysics and natural science partly in reaction to …Read more
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9The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Living Nature. By A.P. Bos. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. Pp. x + 429. $113. ISBN 9004130160 (review)Ancient Philosophy 26 (2): 422-427. 2006.
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72The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Living Nature, by A.P. Bos (review)Ancient Philosophy 26 (2): 422-427. 2006.
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8Paolo C. Biondi, Aristotle, Posterior Analytics II. 19: Introduction, Greek Text, Translation and Commentary Accompanied by a Critical Analysis Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 25 (3): 168-170. 2005.
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6DemonstrationIn Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Metzler. pp. 210-214. 2011.Aristoteles’ Theorie der Demonstration ist in seinen Analytica posteriora enthalten, einem Werk, das seine in den Analytica priora präsentierte Theorie des Syllogismus zur Voraussetzung hat und auf ihm aufbaut. Eine Demonstration ist ein spezieller Typ von Syllogismus, nämlich ein solcher, der beweist, dass eine Tatsache notwendig ist, indem er deren Ursache oder Erklärung aus bestimmten Prämissen aufzeigt, die ihrerseits bestimmte Bedingungen erfüllen müssen. Aristoteles’ Theorie der Demonstrat…Read more
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