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    Plato’s Circle of Words and Tones: On the Dialectic Between Logos and Music in the Pursuit of Truth
    In John Robert Bagby, Ronald Blankenborg & Jurgen R. Gatt (eds.), Meter and Music in Ancient Greece, Parnassos Press. pp. 191-214. 2025.
    This essay explores Plato’s rudimentary epistemology of non-discursive thought. I will proceed in three steps, beginning with a general view of Plato’s philosophy, subsequently focusing on the Meno, and ending with a close reading of the passages on music in Republic. In the first section, I will outline a general framework to examine the relation between truth (alētheia) and discourse (logos) in Plato’s philosophy. My central argument is that, for Plato, discourse is a necessary yet not suffici…Read more
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    Creating an Online Community: Corona in the City
    with de Wildt Annemarie
    Technology and Culture 63 (2): 461-470. 2022.
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    This thesis aims to emancipate the ancient Greek question of artistic truth. First, I will demonstrate that the question of artistic truth is raised rather than answered by Plato. Second, I will show that this question is extended rather than solved by Aristotle’s attempt to answer it. Third, I claim that, partly as a consequence of this Aristotelian heritage, the question is currently absent in contemporary aesthetics, yet needed for contemporary art practices. Through my discussion of Plato an…Read more
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    This paper offers a philosophical account of the specific form of romantic love underlying the ideal of love-based marriages. Rather than examining the institution of marriage, it considers marriage as the promise of infinite love between finite persons. Although this promise may seem irrational, even those who never formally marry still invoke phrases like ‘I love you forever’. In three steps, this paper explores what we could possibly mean by infinite love and how it can be rationally promised…Read more