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    This volume of new essays by an international group of scholars examines the response of Hans-Georg Gadamer to Plato, especially to the Philebus. The book studies Gadamer's interpretative approach to the dialogues and unwritten doctrines of Plato. It also shows how, for Gadamer, reading Plato was intimately interconnected with formulating his own philosophical views. The volume also brings out how Gadamer influenced Donald Davidson in his reading of Plato and his philosophical thought. The volum…Read more
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    Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 23 (2): 428-435. 2003.
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    Philosophy as a way of life: Spiritual exercises from socrates to Foucault,
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (4): 637-640. 1997.
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    Gadamer, lecteur de Platon
    Études Phénoménologiques 13 (26): 33-57. 1997.
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    Dans la foulée des publications récentes sur Cicéron philosophe, cette excel­lente étude explore à nouveaux frais son projet « encyclopédique » (sous la dicta­ture de César, 46-44) par le biais d’un examen des prologues. Yelena Baraz (désormais Y.B.) justifie dans son introduction cette approche méthodologique. Cicéron possédait un cahier de prologues (volumen prohoemiorum) et écrivait des prologues indépendamment de l’ouvrage (ad Att. XVI, 6, 4). Cela signifie, explique-t-elle, qu’il conceva...
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    This paper examines Plato’s views about the unity of argument and drama, and asks why Plato never made his views on this unity fully explicit. Taking the Gorgias as a case study it is argued that unity rests on the conception of refutative dialectic as justice and on the principle of self-consistency of thought and desire. As compared to the treatise, the dialogue form has the advantage of being able to defend these substantive views in action and thus to demonstrate the performative contradicti…Read more
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    This paper examines Plato’s views about the unity of argument and drama, and asks why Plato never made his views on this unity fully explicit. Taking the Gorgias as a case study it is argued that unity rests on the conception of refutative dialectic as justice and on the principle of self-consistency of thought and desire. As compared to the treatise, the dialogue form has the advantage of being able to defend these substantive views in action and thus to demonstrate the performative contradicti…Read more
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    31 chapters covering the Old Academy to Late Antiquity. See attached TOC
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    Host manipulation by cancer cells: Expectations, facts, and therapeutic implications
    with Tazzio Tissot, Audrey Arnal, Camille Jacqueline, Robert Poulin, Thierry Lefèvre, Frédéric Mery, Benjamin Roche, François Massol, Michel Salzet, Paul Ewald, Aurélie Tasiemski, Beata Ujvari, and Frédéric Thomas
    Bioessays 38 (3): 276-285. 2016.
    Similar to parasites, cancer cells depend on their hosts for sustenance, proliferation and reproduction, exploiting the hosts for energy and resources, and thereby impairing their health and fitness. Because of this lifestyle similarity, it is predicted that cancer cells could, like numerous parasitic organisms, evolve the capacity to manipulate the phenotype of their hosts to increase their own fitness. We claim that the extent of this phenomenon and its therapeutic implications are, however, u…Read more
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    Cancer adaptations: Atavism, de novo selection, or something in between?
    with Frédéric Thomas, Beata Ujvari, and Mark Vincent
    Bioessays 39 (8): 1700039. 2017.
    From an evolutionary perspective, both atavism and somatic evolution/convergent evolution theories can account for the consistent occurrence, and astounding attributes of cancers: being able to evolve from a single cell to a complex organized system, and malignant transformations showing significant similarities across organs, individuals, and species. Here, we first provide an overview of these two hypotheses, including the possibility of them not being mutually exclusive, but rather potentiall…Read more
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    The Platonic Alcibiades I: The Dialogue and its Ancient Reception
    with Harold Tarrant
    Cambridge University Press. 2015.
    Although it was influential for several hundred years after it first appeared, doubts about the authenticity of the Platonic Alcibiades I have unnecessarily impeded its interpretation ever since. It positions itself firmly within the Platonic and Socratic traditions, and should therefore be approached in the same way as most other Platonic dialogues. It paints a vivid portrait of a Socrates in his late thirties tackling the unrealistic ambitions of the youthful Alcibiades, urging him to come to …Read more
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    Chapter 8. The Elenctic Strategies of Socrates: The Alcibiades I and the Commentary of Olympiodorus
    In Harold Tarrant & Danielle A. Layne (eds.), The Neoplatonic Socrates, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 118-126. 2014.
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    Tradition et critique : lecture jumelée de Platon et Aristote chez Olympiodore
    Laval Théologique et Philosophique 64 (1): 89-104. 2008.
    What authority do Plato and Aristotle possess in Late Antiquity, specifically for Olympiodorus of Alexandria? According to a current widespread view, the relationship of all Neoplatonists to the two Greek philosophers can be captured by two assumptions : the harmony between the two thinkers and the superiority, even the infallibility, of Plato. The present study first clarifies this notion of harmony in the light of the pedagogical context of the late commentaries and the principle of truth as u…Read more
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    Zwischen Dialektik und Rhetorik. Neuere Forschungen zu Platons Gorgias (review)
    Philosophische Rundschau 55 (1): 66. 2018.
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    Il Platone socratico di Gadamer
    Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 63 (4). 2008.
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    Liminaire
    with Martin Achard
    Laval Théologique et Philosophique 64 (3): 581-582. 2008.
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    La connaissance de soi dans l’Alcibiade majeur et le commentaire d’Olympiodore
    Laval Théologique et Philosophique 65 (2): 363-378. 2009.
    L’authenticité de l’Alcibiade majeur est depuis le xixe siècle souvent remise en cause; on y voit notamment un mélange incongru de socratisme et de platonisme. Inséparable du débat sur l’authenticité du dialogue, l’étude du passage clé sur la connaissance de soi est confrontée à deux interprétations opposées, habituellement estimées irréconciliables, soit les lectures théocentrique et anthropocentrique. Le commentaire d’Olympiodore a le mérite d’unir habilement, à la lumière du contexte dramatiq…Read more
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    In the last two decades, the philosophy of criminal law has undergone a vibrant revival in Canada. The adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has given the Supreme Court of Canada unprecedented latitude to engage with principles of legal, moral, and political philosophy when elaborating its criminal law jurisprudence. Canadian scholars have followed suit by paying increased attention to the philosophical foundations of domestic criminal law. Because of Canada's leadership in internationa…Read more
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    What are emergencies and why do they matter? In this chapter (in its penultimate version), I seek to outline the morally significant features of the concept of emergency, and demonstrate how these features generate corresponding first- and second-order challenges and responsibilities for those in a position to do something about them. In section A, I contend that emergencies are situations in which there is a risk of serious harm and a need to react urgently if that harm is to be averted or mini…Read more