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Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of MindWalter de Gruyter. 2009.
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16Plato and Heidegger: A Question of DialoguePennsylvania State University Press. 2009.In a critique of Heidegger that respects his path of thinking, Francisco Gonzalez looks at the ways in which Heidegger engaged with Plato’s thought over the course of his career and concludes that, owing to intrinsic requirements of Heidegger’s own philosophy, he missed an opportunity to conduct a real dialogue with Plato that would have been philosophically fruitful for us all. Examining in detail early texts of Heidegger’s reading of Plato that have only recently come to light, Gonzalez, in pa…Read more
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126Plato and myth: studies on the use and status of Platonic myths (edited book)Brill. 2012.Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and ...
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98Plato and Heidegger: A Question of DialoguePennsylvania State University Press. 2009.Introduction: What is to be gained from a confrontation between Plato and Heidegger? -- Heidegger's critical reading of Plato in the 1920s -- Dialectic, ethics, and dialogue -- Heidegger's critique of dialectic in the 1920s --Ethics and ontology -- Ethics in Plato's sophist -- Heidegger and dialogue -- Logos and being -- The tensions in Heidegger's critique -- The guiding perspective of Plato as undermining the ontic/ontological distinction -- Heidegger on Plato's forms -- Conclusion: The relati…Read more
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22From Dunamis_ as Active/Passive Capacity to _Dunamis_ as Nature in Aristotle’s _Metaphysics ThetaApeiron 56 (4): 785-825. 2023.Aristotle notoriously begins his examination of being in the sense ofdunamisandenergeiainMetaphysicsTheta with what he describes as the sense that is ‘most dominant’ but not useful for his present aim. He proceeds to define the not-useful sense ofdunamisas “the principle of change in something else or in itself qua other”, along with other senses derived from this primary sense. But what then is the useful sense? All that Aristotle tells us at the outset is that it is a sense that extends “beyon…Read more
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20Who 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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74The Virtue of Dialogue, Dialogue as Virtue in Plato's ProtagorasPhilosophical Papers 43 (1): 33-66. 2014.No abstract
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14Plato’s perspectivismPlato Journal 16 31-48. 2017.This paper defends a ‘perspectivist’ reading of Plato’s dialogues. According to this reading, each dialogue presents a particular and limited perspective on the truth, conditioned by the specific context, aim and characters, where this perspective, not claiming to represent the whole truth on a topic, is not incompatible with the possibly very different perspectives found in other dialogues nor, on the other hand, can be subordinated or assimilated to one of these other perspectives. This model …Read more
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44Philosophers in the “Republic”: Plato's Two ParadigmsPhilosophical Review 124 (4): 571-575. 2015.
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29Knowledge and Virtue as Dispositions in Plato's TheaetetusIn Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 1-23. 2009.
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8Knowledge and Virtue as Dispositions in Plato's TheaetetusIn Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf & Karsten Stueber (eds.), Debating Dispositions. Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 1-23. 2009.
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97I Have to Live in ErosEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 217-240. 2015.Heidegger’s recently published 1932 seminar on Plato’s Phaedrus arguably represents his most successful dialogue with Plato, where such dialogue is characterized by both the deepest affinity and the most incisive opposition. The central thesis of Heidegger’s interpretation is that the Phaedrus is not simply a logos about eros, but rather an attempt to show that eros is the very essence of logos and that logos is thereby in its very essence dia-logue. Heidegger is thus here more attuned than ever…Read more
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28""How is the truth of beings in the soul? Interpreting" Anamnesis" in PlatoElenchos 28 (2): 275-302. 2007.
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29How is the Truth of Beings in the Soul? Interpreting Anamnesis in PlatoElenchos 28 (2): 275-302. 2007.
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65Die Idee des Guten in Platons Politeia: Beobachtungen zu den mittleren Buchern (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (3): 354-355. 2005.Francisco J. Gonzalez - Die Idee des Guten in Platons Politeia: Beobachtungen zu den mittleren Buchern - Journal of the History of Philosophy 43:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 43.3 354-355 Thomas A. Szlezák. Die Idee des Guten in Platons Politeia: Beobachtungen zu den mittleren Büchern. Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2003. Pp. viii + 160. Cloth, € 24,50. The first part of this book consists of a series of lectures delivered at the University of Macerata in April 2000. These lectures provide a…Read more
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60Dialogue DiscontinuedEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 371-392. 2007.According to Heidegger’s own testimony, his 1940 essay, “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” is derived from a course he first delivered in 1931/32. Yet, while an interpretation of the Theaetetus is central to the argument in 1931/32, this dialogue is not so much as mentioned in the 1940 essay. The reason is that Heidegger’s own careful and insightful reading of the Theaetetus simply does not support his thesis regarding Plato’s “doctrine of truth.” But then the real interest of this reading is that it …Read more
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35Dialogue DiscontinuedEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 371-392. 2007.According to Heidegger’s own testimony, his 1940 essay, “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” is derived from a course he first delivered in 1931/32. Yet, while an interpretation of the Theaetetus is central to the argument in 1931/32, this dialogue is not so much as mentioned in the 1940 essay. The reason is that Heidegger’s own careful and insightful reading of the Theaetetus simply does not support his thesis regarding Plato’s “doctrine of truth.” But then the real interest of this reading is that it …Read more
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214Dialectic and dialogue in the hermeneutics of Paul ricœur and H.g. GadamerContinental Philosophy Review 39 (3): 313-345. 2006.The present paper uses the theme of dialectic and dialogue to begin unraveling the similarities and differences between the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur and H.G. Gadamer. Ricoeur is shown to distance himself from Heidegger by insisting on a dimension of explanation and distanciation (which he sometimes identifies with Plato's `descending dialectic') that cannot be reduced to, or absorbed by, understanding and appropriation. This same move, however, leads him to reject Platonic dialogue, with the…Read more
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25Colloquium 5 Final Causality Without Teleology in Aristotle’s Ontology of LifeProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 35 (1): 133-172. 2020.The present paper has a negative aim and a positive aim, both limited in the present context to a sketch or outline. The negative aim, today less controversial, is to show that Aristotle’s theory of final causality has little or nothing to do with the teleology rejected by modern science and that, therefore, far from having been rendered obsolete, it has yet to be fully understood. This aim will be met through the identification and brief discussion of some key points on which Aristotle’s theory…Read more
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1Plato and Aristotle : more than a question of 'separate forms'In Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.
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4The Socratic Hermeneutics of Heidegger and GadamerIn Sara Ahbel‐Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Heidegger's Socrates: Being on the Way Gadamer's Socrates: The Dialectic of Question and Answer.
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138Whose Metaphysics of Presence? Heidegger's Interpretation of Energeia and Dunamis in AristotleSouthern Journal of Philosophy 44 (4): 533-568. 2010.In the recently published 1924 course, Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie, Martin Heidegger offers a detailed interpretation of Aristotle's definition of kinesis in the Physics. This interpretation identifies entelecheia with what is finished and present‐at‐an‐end and energeia with being‐at‐work toward this end. In arguing against this interpretation, the present paper attempts to show that Aristotle interpreted being from the perspective of praxis rather than poiesis and therefore di…Read more
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56Δύναµις and Dasein, Ἐνέργεια and EreignisResearch in Phenomenology 48 (3): 409-432. 2018.The “destructive” appropriation of the Aristotelian concepts of δύναµις and ἐνέργεια played a central role in Martin Heidegger’s own reflection on the meaning of being. While this has been generally known for some time, it is only now that we can understand the full scope, complexity and evolving character of this appropriation. One reason is the fairly recent publication of notes and protocols for seminars Heidegger led on Aristotle as late as the 1940s and 1950s. Another is the existence of st…Read more
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15The God of Metaphysics as a Way of Life in AristotleProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (2): 133-136. 2018.The question addressed here is how Aristotle can characterize the ‘unmoved mover’ that is the ‘first ousia’ and first principle of his metaphysics not only as being alive, but as a model for the best kind of human life. The first step towards understanding this characterization is the distinction between ‘motion’ and ‘activity’ that Aristotle develops in 6th chapter of Metaphysics. Only on the basis of this distinction can we understand how the unmoved mover can be active without being in motion…Read more
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29Temps discontinu, souvenir et oubli : les stratégies narratives du BanquetRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 4 (4): 477-489. 2013.
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