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378Plato on the weakness of wordsDissertation, Aarhus University. 2022.This is a defence of the authenticity of Plato’s Epistula vii against the recent onslaught by Frede and Burnyeat (2015). It focusses on what Ep. vii has to say about writing and the embedded philosophical Digression and evaluates this in the context of other mainly late dialogues. In the Cratylus, Socrates ends with resignation regarding the potential of language study as a source of truth. This is also the case in Ep. vii, where the four means of knowledge (names, definitions, images (diagr…Read more
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6Socratic Argumentation Strategies and Aristotle's Topics and Sophistical RefutationsMéthexis 9 (1): 43-57. 1996.
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1004What did Plato say. Interpreting PlatoIn Ole Hã¸Iris & Birte Poulsen (eds.), Antikkens Verden, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 2011.
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22Forms, Matter and Mind: Three Strands in Plato’s MetaphysicsMartinus Nijhoff. 1982.The present work is an attempt to analyse critically Plato's views on mind and body and more particularly on the mind-body relationship within the wider setting of Plato's metaphysics. We seek to achieve this by a philosophical examination"-of the dialogues on the basis of a generally accepted order. Strictly speaking "soul" ought perhaps to be substituted for "mind" in the above. But it seems to be in terms of "mind" that modern philosophers deal with and refer to the problem that Plato tackled…Read more
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1368Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-Body Debate, 2nd EditionAcademia Verlag, Baden-Baden. 2018.Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-Body Debate offers an overview of Platonic-Aristotelian thought on man with a view to considering what its alternative conceptual framework may contribute to the modern debate which is dominated by the scepticism confronting modern reductionism. The mind-body problem is central to the modern philosophical and cultural debate because we cannot understand what man is until we understand what consciousness is and how it interacts with the body. Althoug…Read more
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24Ancient Greek psychology and the modern mind-body debateAarhus University Press. 1986.Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind-Body Debate offers an overview of Platonic-Aristotelian thought on man with a view to considering what its alternative conceptual framework may contribute to the modern debate which is dominated by the scepticism confronting modern reductionism. The mind-body problem is central to the modern philosophical and cultural debate because we cannot understand what man is until we understand what consciousness is and how it interacts with the body. Althoug…Read more
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43Essays on Plato's RepublicAarhus Universitetsforlag. 1998.CONTENTS: How Totalitarian is Plato's Republic; Plato as a Problem-Solver. The Unity of the Polis as a Key to the Interpretation of Plato's Republic; Plato and Xenophon: Two Contributions to the Constitutional Debate in the 4th Century BC; Did Plato ever Reply to those Critics, who Reproached him for 'the Emptiness of the Platonic Idea or Form of the Good'?; The Socratic Paradoxes and the Tripartite Soul; Eudaimonia in Plato's Republic; Plato's Ideal of Science; The Katabasis of Er. Plato's Use …Read more
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The Role and Status of the Forms in the Timaeus: Paradigmatism Revised?In Tomás Calvo & Luc Brisson (eds.), Interpreting the Timaeus – Critias. Proceedings of the IV Symposium Platonicum. Selected papers, Academia Verlag. pp. 167--177. 1997.
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379Human Wisdom, Studies in Ancient Greek PhilosophyAcademia Verlag. 2016.This book offers inter alia a systematic investigation of the actual argumentative strategy of Socratic conversation and explorations of Socratic and Platonic morality including an examination ofeudaimonia and the mental conception of health in the Republic as self-control, with a view to the relation of individual health/happiness to social order. The essays cover a period from 1968 to 2012. Some of them are now published for the first time. Self-motion in the later dialogues involves tripartit…Read more
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27Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic AnonymityRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.In this international and interdisciplinary collection of critical essays, distinguished contributors examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own doctrines and arguments can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The authors argue in general and with reference to specific dialogues, that no character should be taken to be Plato's mouthpiece. This is essential reading for students and scholars of Plat…Read more
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4Arven fra Antikken. Studier i Græsk og Romersk FilosofiMultivers. 2017.Arbejderne i denne publikation er dels tidligere udgivne tidsskriftartikler, dels ikke før publiceret materiale. De afspejler en vedvarende og relevant forskning i antikkens opfattelse af psyken og af især den sokratiske samtale, som har gennemgribende indflydelse på mange forskellige områder i moderne tid: pædagogik, retsvæsen, sundhedsområdet, retorik osv. Teksterne falder i fire grupper: Sokrates (samtalens logik), Platon (især moralfilosofi og psykologi), Aristoteles (moralfilosofi, gudsbegr…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |