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Ptolemy's Philosophy of GeographyIn René Ceceña (ed.), Claudio Ptolomeo: Geografía. Capítulos teóricos, . pp. 281-326. 2018.
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44Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of LifePrinceton University Press. 2018.The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s general philosophical system—including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics—and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology. In this stimulating intel…Read more
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26What Can We Know of What the Romans Knew? Comments on Daryn Lehoux’s What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and WorldmakingExpositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 6 (2): 23-32. 2012.
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4Ptolémée d’Alexandrie (Claude)In Richard Goulet (ed.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques V b de Plotina à Rutilius Rufus, Cnrs Éditions. pp. 1718-33. 2012.
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9Théon d’AlexandrieIn Richard Goulet (ed.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques VI de Sabinillus à Tyrsénos, Cnrs Éditions. pp. 1008-1016. 2016.
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1PtolemyIn Lloyd P. Gerson (ed.), The Cambridge history of philosophy in late antiquity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 197-209. 2010.
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43Mathematizing the soul: The development of Ptolemy’s psychological theory from On the Kritêrion and Hêgemonikon to the HarmonicsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (4): 585-594. 2012.► I present an intellectual history of Ptolemy’s accounts of the human soul. ► I assess the accounts for consistency. ► I argue that disparities in the psychological accounts are significant. ► I argue that the disparities demonstrate the maturation of his scientific method
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31Meta-mathematical Rhetoric: Hero and Ptolemy against the PhilosophersHistoria Mathematica 41 (3): 261-276. 2014.Bringing the meta-mathematics of Hero of Alexandria and Claudius Ptolemy into conversation for the first time, I argue that they employ identical rhetorical strategies in the introductions to Hero’s Belopoeica, Pneumatica, Metrica and Ptolemy’s Almagest. They each adopt a paradigmatic argument, in which they criticize the discourses of philosophers and declare epistemological supremacy for mathematics by asserting that geometrical demonstration is indisputable. The rarity of this claim—in conjun…Read more
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusInstitute for The History and Philosophy of Science and TechnologyVisiting scholar
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
PhD, 2009