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484Two Kinds of Mental Conflict in Republic IVHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 25 (2): 255-281. 2021.Plato’s partition argument infers that the soul has parts from the fact that the soul experiences mental conflict. We consider an ambiguity in the concept of mental conflict. According to the first sense of conflict, a soul is in conflict when it has desires whose satisfaction is logically incompatible. According to the second sense of conflict, a soul is in conflict when it has desires which are logically incompatible even when they are unsatisfied. This raises a dilemma: if the mental conflict…Read more
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73PLATO, PHAEDRUS- P. Ryan Plato's Phaedrus. A Commentary for Greek Readers. Introduction by Mary Louise Gill. (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture 47.) Pp. xxx + 344, map. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Paper, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4259-3 (review)The Classical Review 63 (2): 360-361. 2013.
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63Philosophy’s Workmate: Erōs and the Erōtica in Plato’s SymposiumApeiron 55 (3): 329-357. 2022.Diotima’s speech claims that philosophy ranks among the erōtica. The standard reading of this holds that erōs manifests in philosophical activity. This is puzzling. Eros has a reputation for overpowering the psyche, making reasoning impossible. The major interpretive discussion of this puzzle suggests that Diotima must therefore accept either non-rationalist philosophizing or rationalist erōs. This paper argues for an alternative. The “ancillary activities view” posits that the erōtica do not ma…Read more
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47Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2023.This volume deploys recent feminist epistemological frameworks to analyze how concepts like knowledge, authority, rationality, objectivity and testimony were constructed in Greece and Rome. The introduction serves as a field guide to feminist epistemological interpretations of classical sources, and the following sixteen chapters treat a variety of genres and time periods, from Greek poetry, tragedy, philosophy, oratory, historiography and material culture to Roman comedy, epic, oratory, letters…Read more
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33Bringing Up Beauty: Reproductive Love in Plato's SymposiumEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (1): 23-34. 2023.This paper provides a novel response to Vlastos’s challenge that Platonic erōs in the Symposium, since it is for the form of beauty rather than any particular person, is impersonal and egotistical. Vlastos, in addition to generations of his readers and critics, badly misunderstands Diotima’s reproductive theory of love. In particular, it has been widely overlooked or diminished that the ideal erotic relationship set out in the ladder of love mirrors the reproductive labor of ancient Greek mother…Read more
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22“F. Trabattoni, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology.” (review)The Classical Review 67 (2): 351-352. 2017.
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18THE GOOD IN PLATO - (S.) Broadie Plato's Sun-Like Good. Dialectic in the Republic. Pp. x + 240. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-316-51687-4 (review)The Classical Review 73 (1): 79-81. 2023.
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2A Case for Platonic LoveIn Carol Hay (ed.), The philosophy of love and sex: an anthology, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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Bodies of Knowledge: Diotima’s Reproductive Expertise in the SymposiumIn Megan Elena Bowen, Mary Hamil Gilbert & Edith Gwendolyn Nally (eds.), Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome, Edinburgh University Press. 2023.This chapter uses feminist standpoint theory to investigate Diotima’s epistemic advantage in Plato’s Symposium. Scholars have wondered why Diotima – a woman speaking about the role of erōs in gestation, childbirth, and childrearing – voices the view that Plato privileges most among all the symposiasts (Halperin 1990, Evans 2006, Hobbs 2007). Feminist standpoint theory is useful in developing a novel answer to this question; it supposes that oppressed groups, because they occupy different social …Read more
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“H. Benson, Clitophon's Challenge: Dialectic in Plato's Meno, Phaedo, and Republic.” (review)Religious Studies Review 42 205-6. 2016.
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The Telos Problem in Plato’s SymposiumIn Evan Keeling & Georgia Sermamoglou (eds.), Wisdom, Love and Friendship in Ancient Philosophy, De Gruyter. 2020.