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    Ennead VI.4 and VI.5: on the presence of being, one and the same, everywhere as a whole
    with Plotinus and Steven K. Strange
    Parmenides Publishing. 2015.
    Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyry's important work…Read more
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    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 40: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede (edited book)
    with James Allen, Benjamin Morison, and Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback
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    Plotinus on intellect
    Oxford University Press. 2007.
    Plotinus (205-269 AD) led the philosophical movement of Neoplatonism, which reinterpreted Plato's thought later in antiquity and went on to become a dominant force in the history of ideas. Emilsson's in-depth study of Plotinus' central doctrine of Intellect caters for the increasing interest in Plotinus with philosophical clarity and rigor
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    Oxford studies in ancient philosophy (edited book)
    with Michael Frede, James V. Allen, Wolfgang-Rainer Mann, and Benjamin Morison
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
  • On happiness and time
    In Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim & Miira Tuominen (eds.), The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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    Did Plato See Through It All?
    International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 17 (2): 265-270. 2023.
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    An Interview with Professor E.K. Emilsson
    International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 11 (2): 247-252. 2017.
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    Nyplatonsk politisk tenkning
    Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 36 (2-3): 247-269. 2018.
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    Sense-Perception, Reasoning and Forms in Plotinus
    Phronesis 67 (1): 99-130. 2021.
    This paper discusses the role of innate concepts derived from Intellect in Plotinus’ account of cognition of the sensible realm. Several passages have been claimed as evidence for such innateness, but an analysis of them shows that they do not support this claim. It is tentatively suggested that, nevertheless, some very general concepts such as difference, sameness and being are integral to the faculty of sense and play a crucial role in concept formation. It is further argued that reasoning abo…Read more
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    The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness (edited book)
    with Øyvind Rabbås, Hallvard Fossheim, and Miira Tuominen
    Oxford University Press UK. 2015.
    How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the subject of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium. While the centrality of the notion of happiness in ancient ethics is well known, this book is unique in that it focuses directly on this notion, as it appears in the ancient texts. Fourteen pa…Read more
  •  2
    Kommentar til Kallikles-episoden: Gorgias 481b–522e
    with Øyvind Rabbås, Panos Dimas, Øivind Andersen, Hallvard Fossheim, and Håvard Løkke
    Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 42 (1-2): 80-150. 2007.
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    The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic, written by John N. Martin
    International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 14 (2): 216-217. 2020.
  • Plotinus’ doctrine of badness as matter in Ennead I.8 [51]
    In Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson & Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (eds.), Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity, Taylor & Francis. 2019.
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    Introduction
    with Lars Fredrik Janby, Torstein Tollefsen, and Panagiotis G. Pavlos
    In Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson & Torstein Theodor Tollefsen (eds.), Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity, Taylor & Francis. pp. 1-13. 2019.
    This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores Eusebius’ reception of Porphyry’s daemonology. It examines Plotinus’ claim that matter is absolute badness and focuses on Maximus the Confessor’s doctrine of creation and asks whether one may detect any influence on Maximus from Philoponus. The book a…Read more
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    Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (edited book)
    with Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Lars Fredrik Janby, and Torstein Theodor Tollefsen
    Taylor & Francis. 2019.
    Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as pagan competitors and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this period. The contributions in this volume explore the reception of Platonic material in Christian thought…Read more
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    Plotinus: Ennead I,1. What is the Living Thing? What is Man?, edited by O’Daly, G
    International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (1): 93-95. 2019.
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    Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity (edited book)
    with Panagiotis G. Pavlos, Janby Lars Fredrik, and Torstein Tollefsen
    Routledge. 2019.
    Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith. The chapters are united in their goal to explore transformations that took place in the reception and interaction process between Platonism and Christianity in this period. The contributions in this volume explore the reception of Platonic material in Christian though…Read more
  • Poltinus on Happiness and Time
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 40 339-359. 2011.
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    Plotinus
    Routledge. 2005.
    Plotinus was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him, Emilsson goes on to address key to…Read more
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    Plotinus: Ennead V. 1 (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 10 (1): 146-149. 1990.
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    Plotinus on Sense-Perception: A Philosophical Study
    Cambridge University Press. 1988.
    This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. It aims to show how his thoughts were both original and a development of the ideas of his predecessors, in particular those of Plato, Aristotle and the Peripatetics. Special attention is paid to Plotinus' dualism with respect to soul and body and its implications for his views on the senses. The author combines a historical approach to his subject, setting Plotinus' thought in the context of thinkers who preceded and s…Read more
  •  14
    Plotinus on Sense-Perception: A Philosophical Study
    with H. J. Blumenthal
    Philosophical Review 101 (2): 375. 1992.
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    Aristotle and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity: Interpretations of the De Anima
    with H. J. Blumenthal
    Philosophical Review 107 (3): 486. 1998.
    The late ancient commentators on Aristotle, most of them Platonists, have been gradually re-emerging on the philosophical and scholarly horizon during the last two or three decades. Their reappearance is not likely to cause any major transformations of the scene, but they are interesting enough in themselves to deserve careful study and they have been influential in the past to the extent that proper understanding of their work sheds light on the subsequent history of the interpretation of Arist…Read more
  •  5
    Plotinus
    Routledge. 2005.
    Plotinus was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him, Emilsson goes on to address key to…Read more
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  • The thesis is a philosophical and historical study of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. Chapter I contains an exposition of Plotinus' metaphysics. Chapter II deals with Plotinus' views on man and the soul in general. In Chapter III Plotinus' views on visual transmission are discussed. It is argued that his doctrine of visual transmission, which Plotinus describes in terms of sympatheia, is to be regarded as a synthesis of Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic elements. Like other ancient philosoph…Read more
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    Commentary on Dillon
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 359-363. 1987.
  •  3
    Plotinus on Happiness and Time
    In Michael Frede, James V. Allen, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Wolfgang-Rainer Mann & Benjamin Morison (eds.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 339. 2011.
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    Plotinus on the Objects of Thought
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 77 (1): 21-41. 1995.