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Observations on listening in Aristotle's practical philosophyIn Jill Gordon (ed.), Hearing, sound, and the auditory in ancient Greece, Indiana University Press. 2022.
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12Elenchos in Plato’s SophistHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 26 (1): 1-27. 2022.This paper examines the terms ‘elenchos’ and ‘elenchō’ as they occur in the Sophist in order to reveal a refined view of elenchos as a philosophical method. The explicit discussion of elenchos as a method in 226a6–231b8 must be read together with other passages described by these terms. Once this is done, it shall be seen that there are two types of elenchus employed in several ways. The first type, which I identify with the familiar Socratic elenchus, is used to purge false opinions or to arriv…Read more
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7Ways of Discourse and Ways of LifeIn James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani & Kathleen Wallace (eds.), Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives, Wiley. 2020-10-05.In book X of the Republic, Plato famously reports “a quarrel between poetry and philosophy.” The present essay examines this quarrel in book X, along with other relevant parts of the Republic, by understanding “philosophy” and “poetry” as rival ways of life and rival ways of discourse. The essay first explains why, in Plato’s view, poetic discourse weakens one’s power to reason and is at odds with philosophic discourse. Then it shows how poetic discourse is bound up with a way of life that champ…Read more
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Ways of discourse and ways of life : Plato on the conflict between poetry and philosophyIn James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani & Kathleen Wallace (eds.), Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives, Wiley. 2020.
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Observations on listening in Aristotle's practical philosophyIn Jill Gordon (ed.), Hearing, sound, and the auditory in ancient Greece, Indiana University Press. 2022.
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6On the Final Definition of the Sophist: Sophist 265A10–268D5Review of Metaphysics 72 (4): 661-684. 2019.
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11Ways of Discourse and Ways of LifeMetaphilosophy 51 (2-3): 318-334. 2020.In book X of the Republic, Plato famously reports “a quarrel between poetry and philosophy.” The present essay examines this quarrel in book X, along with other relevant parts of the Republic, by understanding “philosophy” and “poetry” as rival ways of life and rival ways of discourse. The essay first explains why, in Plato’s view, poetic discourse weakens one’s power to reason and is at odds with philosophic discourse. Then it shows how poetic discourse is bound up with a way of life that champ…Read more
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13Plato’s Sophist on the Goodness of TruthEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2): 335-349. 2017.“Late” Platonic dialogues are usually characterized as proposing a “scientific” understanding of philosophy, where “neutrality” is seen favorably, and being concerned with the honor of things and/or their utility for humans is considered an attitude that should be overcome through dialectical training. One dialogue that speaks strongly in favor of this reading is the Sophist, in which the stance of neutrality is explicitly endorsed in 227b-c. This paper will propose a reading of the Sophist show…Read more
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National Taiwan UniversityAssistant Professor
Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan