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5Die Resokratisierung Platons: die platonische Hermeneutik Hans-Georg GadamersAcademia Verlag. 1999.
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18Hermeneutic philosophy and Plato: Gadamer's response to the Philebus (edited book)Academia. 2010.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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310 Humbling as Upbringing: The Ethical Dimension of the Elenchus in the LysisIn Scott Gary Alan (ed.), Does Socrates Have a Method?: Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 183-198. 2002.
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106Philosophy 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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18Between dialect and rhetoric. New research on Platon's' Gorgias'Philosophische Rundschau 55 (1). 2008.
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2Yelena Baraz, A Written Republic: Cicero’s Philosophical PoliticsPhilosophie Antique 14 355-359. 2014.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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2The twofold requirements of truth and justice in the GorgiasPlato Journal 16 95-108. 2017.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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19The twofold requirements of truth and justice in the GorgiasPlato Journal 16 95-108. 2016.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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532Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (edited book)Brill. 2017.31 chapters covering the Old Academy to Late Antiquity. See attached TOC
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29Host manipulation by cancer cells: Expectations, facts, and therapeutic implicationsBioessays 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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13Cancer adaptations: Atavism, de novo selection, or something in between?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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4The Platonic Alcibiades I: The Dialogue and its Ancient ReceptionCambridge 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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10Chapter 8. The Elenctic Strategies of Socrates: The Alcibiades I and the Commentary of OlympiodorusIn Harold Tarrant & Danielle A. Layne (eds.), The Neoplatonic Socrates, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 118-126. 2014.
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5Tradition et critique : lecture jumelée de Platon et Aristote chez OlympiodoreLaval 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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7Zwischen Dialektik und Rhetorik. Neuere Forschungen zu Platons Gorgias (review)Philosophische Rundschau 55 (1): 66. 2018.
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12Harold Tarrant, Plato's First Interpreters. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2000, viii-263 p.Harold Tarrant, Plato's First Interpreters. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2000, viii-263 p (review)Laval Théologique et Philosophique 59 (2): 405-408. 2003.
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11Le commentaire philosophique dans l'Antiquité et ses prolongements : méthodes exégétiques (II)Laval Théologique et Philosophique 64 (3). 2008.
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13Le commentaire philosophique dans l'Antiquité et ses prolongements : méthodes exégétiques (I) (review)Laval Théologique et Philosophique 64 (1). 2008.
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26Thomas De Koninck, Aristote, l'intelligence et Dieu. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France (coll. « Chaire Étienne Gilson »), 2008, 205 p.Thomas De Koninck, Aristote, l'intelligence et Dieu. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France (coll. « Chaire Étienne Gilson »), 2008, 205 p (review)Laval Théologique et Philosophique 66 (2): 442-446. 2010.
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18La connaissance de soi dans l’Alcibiade majeur et le commentaire d’OlympiodoreLaval 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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6Zwischen Dialektik und Rhetorik. Neuere Forschungen zu Platons GorgiasPhilosophische Rundschau 55 (1). 2008.
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66Limits and possibilities of contemporariness. Hermeneutische wege. Hans-Georg Gadamer zum hundertsten by günter FigalResearch in Phenomenology 32 (1): 257-268. 2002.
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37Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law (edited book)Hart Publishing. 2012.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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45Basic Challenges for Governance in EmergenciesIn Alice MacLachlan & C. Allen Speight (eds.), Justice, Responsibility, and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict, Springer. 2013.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
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