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2Living Magically: A new vision of realityPiatkus. 2012.Living Magically is a book that has changed countless lives. In this lively and inspiring guide to the tools and techniques of metaphysics, Gill Edwards outlines a spiritually-based psychology for the times that we live in. Taking a practical self-help approach, Living Magically will help you to: Rediscover your inner wisdom; Break through your fears, blockages and limitations; Let go of the past and reach for the future; Grow through love and joy, rather than pain and struggle; Heal your inner …Read more
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14Desarrollo humano integral y sostenible: Diálogos entre Sen-PNUD y el pensamiento social católico contemporáneoTeología y Vida 59 (3): 399-430. 2018.El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las convergencias, complementariedades y diferencias entre la noción de desarrollo humano de Amartya Sen y el PNUD con el pensamiento de Benedicto XVI y Francisco. Las distintas nociones de desarrollo humano incluyen la integralidad o multidimensionalidad de las personas, así como la inclusión y la sustentabilidad. Cada noción de desarrollo supone una visión del ser humano, de la libertad, de la responsabilidad y de la agencia. Se discute acerca de la rel…Read more
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13David N. Pellow, What is Critical Environmental Justice?Environmental Values 29 (3): 385-386. 2020.
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30Language Games in the Ivory Tower: Comparing the Philosophical Investigations with Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead GameJournal of Philosophy of Education 53 (4): 669-687. 2019.Wittgenstein explores learning through practice in the Philosophical Investigations by means of an extended analogy with games. However, does this concern with learning also necessarily extend to education, in our institutional understanding of the word? While Wittgenstein's examples of language learning and use are always shared or social, he does not discuss formal educational institutions as such. He does not wish to found a ‘school of thought’, and is suspicious of philosophy acting as a the…Read more
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27Animals: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts) (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.This volume traces the history of animals in philosophy, from antiquity down to contemporary times. Negative attitudes towards animals, as found in Aristotle and Descartes, turn out to be more nuanced than usually supposed, while remarkable discussions of animal welfare appear in late antiquity, India, the Islamic world, and Kant.
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25How to Escape Indictment for Impiety: Teaching as Punishment in the EuthyphroJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (1): 1-19. 2016.in the euthyphro, socrates tells euthyphro that Meletus is taking him to court for impiety.1 Upon hearing Euthyphro’s claim to have knowledge of piety, Socrates asks Euthyphro to take him on as a pupil, so that he might acquire knowledge of piety himself. Although this may seem unsurprising, given Socrates’s high regard for knowledge in other dialogues, the reason that Socrates gives for wishing to acquire knowledge, in this case, is bizarre—for he says it is because knowledge of piety will help…Read more
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38Irrational Animals in Porphyry’s Logical Works: A Problem for the Consensus Interpretation of On AbstinencePhronesis 59 (1): 22-43. 2014.In book 3 of On Abstinence from Animal Food, Porphyry is traditionally taken to argue that animals are rational and that it is, therefore, unjust to kill them for food. Since the vast majority of scholars endorse this interpretation, I call it ‘the consensus interpretation’. Yet, strangely enough, elsewhere in his corpus Porphyry claims that the non-human animals are irrational. Jonathan Barnes notices this discrepancy and suggests that an appeal to the distinction between specific and non-speci…Read more
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47Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism: Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's “Phaedo.”Philosophical Review 123 (2): 231-234. 2014.
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |