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    Rezensionen (review)
    with Ludger Jansen, Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter, Gerhard Streminger, and Ernst Michael Lange
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 86 (3): 322-353. 2004.
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    Late Antiquity
    Phronesis 68 (1): 117-125. 2022.
  • The myth of Er and the problem of constitutive luck
    In Anne D. R. Sheppard (ed.), Ancient approaches to Plato's Republic, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. 2013.
  • Neoplatonism and medicine
    In Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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    Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo's formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? In what sense is a fetus 'alive,' and when does it become a human being? Where does the embryo's soul come from, and how is it connected t…Read more
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    World Soul: A history (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2021.
    The concept of the world soul is difficult to understand in large part because over the course of history it has been invoked to very different ends and within the frameworks of very different philosophical systems, with very different concepts of the world soul emerging as a result. This volume brings together eleven chapters by leading philosophers in their respective fields that collectively explore the various ways in which this concept has been understood and employed, covering the followin…Read more
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    Women and the Female in Neoplatonism (edited book)
    Brill. 2022.
    This book explores the various ways, ranging over psychology, political philosophy and metaphysics, that both historical women and various conceptualizations of the female help shape Neoplatonism, one of the most influential philosophical schools of late antiquity, at various levels.
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    The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2022.
    Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of Plato in the following centuries approached Plato through him. This Companion from a new generation of ancient philosophy scholars reflects the current state of research on Plotinus, with chapters on topics including mathematics, fate and determ…Read more
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    Late Antiquity
    Phronesis 65 (4): 501-511. 2020.
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    Foreword
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 20 (1): 11-13. 2017.
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    Late Antiquity
    Phronesis 63 (4): 477-490. 2018.
  • The Revolutionary Embryology of the Neoplatonists
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49 321-361. 2015.
  • Allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? In what sense is a fetus ‘alive,’ and when does it become a human being? Where does the embryo’s soul come from, and how is it connected to its body? This is the fi…Read more
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    Teratology in Neoplatonism
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (5): 1021-1042. 2014.
    Teratogenesis poses a real problem for all those who wish to see the natural world as a success story, and this includes the Neoplatonists. On their view even ordinary biological reproduction is governed by principles ultimately derived from intelligible Forms. Thus, the generation of terata would seem to call into question the very efficacy of these intelligible principles in the sensible world, since these would seem to be cases in which matter has gotten the upper hand over the intelligible. …Read more
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    James Wilberding - The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: A Sourcebook. Vol. I, Psychology. Vol. II, Physics. Vol. III, Logic and Metaphysics - Journal of the History of Philosophy 44:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 44.3 470-471 Richard Sorabji. The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200–600 AD: A Sourcebook. Vol. I, Psychology. Pp. xv + 430. Vol. II, Physics. Pp. xix + 401. Vol. III, Logic and Metaphysics. Pp. xvii + 394. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. Paper, $39…Read more
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    In Ennead II.1 (40) Plotinus is primarily concerned to argue for the everlastingness of the universe, the heavens, and the heavenly bodies as individual substances. Here he must grapple both with the philosophical issue of personal identity through time and with the rich tradition of cosmology which pitted the Platonists against the Aristotelians and Stoics. What results is a historically informed cosmological sketch explaining the constitution of the heavens as well as sublunar and celestial mo…Read more
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    Curbing One’s Appetites in Plato’s Republic
    In Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan & Charles Brittain (eds.), Plato and the Divided Self, Cambridge University Press. pp. 128--149. 2012.
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    Plotinus' Cosmology: A Study of "Ennead" Ii.1
    Dissertation, The University of Chicago. 2003.
    At the start of his treatise On the Universe, Plotinus announces his interest in the everlastingness of the universe. Yet, Plotinus never questions that the universe is in fact everlasting. Rather, his examination is limited to the cause of this everlastingness.In my dissertation, I offer a slightly revised text as well as completely new translation of this examination. In addition, an introductory essay and a lengthy commentary serve both to illuminate Plotinus' thought and to set the discussio…Read more
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    David Foster Wallace on dumb jocks and athletic genius
    Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 44 (1): 108-122. 2017.
    David Foster Wallace was genuinely troubled by what he perceived to be a serious incongruity in the mental lives of elite athletes. To perform with grace and beauty, elite athletes must be ‘geniuses,’ yet in conversation and prose these same athletes often exhibit such vapidity and banality that he was tempted to simply write them off as unintelligent or worse. In response to this puzzle, Wallace developed different philosophical conceptions of the elite athlete aimed at bridging the gap between…Read more