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3The Philosophy and Psychology of Virtue: An Empirical Approach to Character and Happiness (edited book)Routledge. 2014.
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80The Rhetoric of Parody in Plato’s MenexenusPhilosophy and Rhetoric 42 (1). 2009.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Rhetoric of Parody in Plato's MenexenusFranco V. TrivignoIn Plato's Menexenus, Socrates spends nearly the entire dialogue reciting an epitaphios logos, or funeral oration, that he claims was taught to him by Aspasia, Pericles' mistress. Three difficulties confront the interpreter of this dialogue. First, commentators have puzzled over how to understand the intention of Socrates' funeral oration (see Clavaud 1980, 17–77).1 Some in…Read more
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50Childish Nonsense? The Value of Interpretation in Plato’s ProtagorasJournal of the History of Philosophy 51 (4): 509-543. 2013.In the Protagoras, Plato presents us with a Puzzle regarding the value of interpretation. On the one hand, Socrates claims to find several familiar Socratic theses about morality and the human condition in his interpretation of a poem by Simonides (339e−347a). On the other hand, immediately after the interpretation, Socrates castigates the whole task of interpretation as “childish nonsense” appropriate for second-rate drinking parties (347d5−6).1 The core problem is this: taking Socrates’s inter…Read more
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72The Virtue Ethical Case for PacifismIn Michael W. Austin (ed.), Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 86-101. 2013.
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11Tell H. Plato's Counterfeit Sophists (Hellenic Studies 44). Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 177. £18.95. 9780674055919 (review)Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 287-288. 2013.
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22Putting Unity in Its Place: Organic Unity in Plato’s PhaedrusLiterature & Aesthetics 19 (1): 153-182. 2009.
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18The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness (edited book)Routledge. 2014.Since ancient times, character, virtue, and happiness have been central to thinking about how to live well. Yet until recently, philosophers have thought about these topics in an empirical vacuum. Taking up the general challenge of situationism – that philosophers should pay attention to empirical psychology – this interdisciplinary volume presents new essays from empirically informed perspectives by philosophers and psychologists on western as well as eastern conceptions of character, virtue, a…Read more
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