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The myth of Er and the problem of constitutive luckIn Anne D. R. Sheppard (ed.), Ancient approaches to Plato's Republic, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. 2013.
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Neoplatonism and medicineIn Svetla Slaveva-Griffin & Pauliina Remes (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism, Routledge. 2014.
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7Spontaneous Generation, Plants and Environmental DigestionIn Sabine Föllinger (ed.), Aristotle’s ›Generation of Animals‹: A Comprehensive Approach, De Gruyter. pp. 367-390. 2022.
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3Forms, Souls, and Embryos: Neoplatonists on Human ReproductionRoutledge. 2016.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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7World 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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11Women 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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21The 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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Prisoners and Puppeteers in the CaveIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvii: Winter 2004, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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20Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' “Enneads”Philosophical Review 118 (4): 543-546. 2009.
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The Revolutionary Embryology of the NeoplatonistsOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49 321-361. 2015.
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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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50Teratology in NeoplatonismBritish 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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47Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (review)The Classical Review 57 (2): 317-319. 2007.
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13The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: A Sourcebook. Vol. I, Psychology (with Ethics and Religion). Vol. II, Physics. Vol. III, Logic and Metaphysics (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (3): 470-471. 2006.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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9Aristotle, Plotinus, And Simplicius On The Relation Of The Changer To The ChangedClassical Quarterly 55 (2): 447-454. 2005.
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1Plotinus' cosmology: a study of Ennead II.1 (40): text, translation, and commentaryOxford University Press. 2006.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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14Plato’s Rivalry with Medicine: A Struggle and Its Dissolution_ _, written by Susan B. LevinInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 10 (1): 116-118. 2016.
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1Curbing One’s Appetites in Plato’s RepublicIn Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan & Charles Brittain (eds.), Plato and the Divided Self, Cambridge University Press. pp. 128--149. 2012.
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1Plotinus' Cosmology: A Study of "Ennead" Ii.1Dissertation, 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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44David Foster Wallace on dumb jocks and athletic geniusJournal 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
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