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6Studies on Alexander of Aphrodisias' On mixture and growth (edited book)Brill. 2023.This volume sheds new light on Alexander of Aphrodisias' On Mixture and Growth as an intelligent and carefully crafted rebuttal of Stoic blending, which Alexander regarded as the closest rival of his own brand of hylomorphism. The authors explore Alexander's dialectical method and determine the precise character of the Stoic theory he attacks. The problematic notions of mutual co-extension and infinite division appear in their proper context, while the successive stages of the process of blendin…Read more
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Presuppositions of moral action in Aristotle and Alexander of AphrodisiasIn Pieter D' Hoine, Gerd van Riel & Carlos G. Steel (eds.), Fate, providence and moral responsibility in ancient, medieval and early modern thought: studies in honour of Carlos Steel, Leuven University Press. 2014.
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Intellect in Alexander of Aphrodisias and John Philoponus: divine, human or both?In John E. Sisko (ed.), Philosophy of mind in antiquity, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2018.
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17Deduction and Common Notions in Alexander’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics A 1–2History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 24 (1): 71-102. 2021.In this paper I explore the ways in which Alexander of Aphrodisias employs and develops so-called ‘common notions’ as reliable starting points of deductive arguments. He combines contemporary developments in the Stoic and Epicurean use of common notions with Aristotelian dialectic, and axioms. This more comprehensive concept of common notions can be extracted from Alexander’s commentary on Metaphysics A 1–2. Alexander puts Aristotle’s claim that ‘all human beings by nature desire to know’ in a l…Read more
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8Thinking about Thought. An Inquiry into the Life of PlatonismIn Marie-Élise Zovko & John Dillon (eds.), Platonism and Forms of Intelligence, Akademie Verlag. pp. 141-158. 2008.
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1Priscian of Lydia and Pseudo-Simplicius on the soulIn Lloyd P. Gerson (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 756-764. 2010.
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79 Late ancient philosophyIn David Sedley (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2003.
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82Did Plotinus and Porphyry disagree on Aristotle's Categories?Phronesis 46 (4): 492-526. 2001.In this paper I propose a reading of Plotinus Enneads VI.1-3 [41-43] On the genera of being which regards this treatise as a coherent whole in which Aristotle's Categories is explored in a way that turns it into a decisive contribution to Plotinus' Platonic ontology. In addition, I claim that Porphyry's Isagoge and commentaries on the Categories start by adopting Plotinus' point of view, including his notion of genus, and proceed by explaining its consequences for a more detailed reading of the …Read more
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1Philoponus and the Mathematization of LogicDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 20 193-210. 2009.
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5Aristotle On generation and corruption, book 1: Symposium Aristotelicum (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2004.Jaap Mansfeld and Frans de Haas bring together in this volume a distinguished international team of ancient philosophers, presenting a systematic, chapter-by-chapter study of one of the key texts in Aristotle's science and metaphysics: the first book of On Generation and Corruption. In GC I Aristotle provides a general outline of physical processes such as generation and corruption, alteration, and growth, and inquires into their differences. He also discusses physical notions such as contact, a…Read more
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26On the Soul_ _, written by Alexander of AphrodisiasInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 9 (2): 242-245. 2015.
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50Johannis Philoponi Commentariae Annotationes in Libros Priorum Resolutivorum Aristotelis. Übersetzt von Guillelmus Dorotheus (review)The Classical Review 46 (1): 172-172. 1996.
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17Review of Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Plotinus on Number (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption, Book I. Symposium AristotelicumTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (2): 416-416. 2006.
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95John Philoponus' new definition of prime matter: aspects of its background in Neoplatonism and the ancient commentary tradition (edited book)E.J. Brill. 1997.This is the first full discussion of Philoponus' account of matter.
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33Interpreting Aristotle's Posterior analytics in late antiquity and beyond (edited book)Brill. 2010.This volume collects Late Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval appropriations of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, addressing the logic of inquiry, concept formation, the question whether metaphysics is a science, and the theory of demonstration.
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Aporia 3-5In Michel Crubellier & André Laks (eds.), Aristotle's Metaphysics Beta Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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1The discriminating capacity of the soul in Aristotle's theory of learningIn Ricardo Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes From the Work of Richard Sorabji, Clarendon Press. 2005.
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16Interpretazione dei libri M-N della “Metafisica” di Aristotele. La filosofia della matematica in Platone e Aristotele (review)Mnemosyne 50 (2): 229-231. 1997.