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14Nicomachean Ethics 7.3 on Akratic IgnoranceOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 323-371. 2008.
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2Living BodiesIn Martha C. Nussbaum & Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's de Anima, Oxford University Press Uk. 1992.Aristotle is committed to the existence of essentially ensouled bodies, and says that such bodies are purely of animal matter. Ackrill has argued that this commitment conflicts with Aristotle’s primary conception of matter as potentiality and as the substratum of generation and destruction. This essay contends that Ackrill’s problem can be solved by allowing that there is a sense in which the matter of an animal is only contingently related to its form, and that this can be done without undermin…Read more
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15Living Together: Essays on Aristotle's EthicsOUP Usa. 2023.This book comprises essays centered on Aristotle’s objectivist conception of eudaimonia, especially the roles played in it by activities of theoretical and practical intellect and the quality of our relationships with one another. Common objections to grounding this conception in the “proper function” of a human being are answered by appeal to the role played by Aristotle’s teleologically driven essentialism. His struggle to reconcile living in accordance with distinctively human virtues with th…Read more
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1The Philosophy of Sydney Shoemaker (edited book)University of Arkansas Press. 2000.Special volume of Philosophical Topics in honor of Sydney Shoemaker.
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22Body and soul: essays on Aristotle's hylomorphismOxford University Press. 2023.Essays on Aristotle's "hylomorphism" - i.e., his conception of an organism's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê). Common readings - that there is only one form per species and that matter is what distinguishes individuals within a species from one another - are rejected in favor of the view that each member of a biological species has its own numerically distinct form. Original grounds are given for Aristotle's conception of soul as "the form and essence" of an organ…Read more
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54Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and DutyPhilosophical Review 108 (4): 576. 1999.This collection of essays contains revised versions of papers delivered at a conference entitled “Duty, Interest, and Practical Reason: Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics” that was organized by Stephen Engstrom and Jennifer Whiting at the University of Pittsburgh in 1994. One of the main aims of the conference was to bring together scholars on Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant to reevaluate the common view that Greek and Kantian ethics represent fundamentally opposed conceptions of ethical theory and…Read more
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239. See the Right Thing: “Paternal” Reason, Love, and PhronêsisIn Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 243-284. 2022.
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41Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival; The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (review)Philosophical Review 114 (3): 399-410. 2005.
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82Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of MemoryPhilosophical Review 106 (4): 610. 1997.True to his longstanding bias against grand unifying theories, Hacking chooses to pursue these questions by focusing on a specific case of memory-thinking: the history of multiple personality. His excavation of the contemporary terrain leads him, however, to the surprisingly grand conclusion that the various sciences of memory—including neurological studies of localization, experimental studies of recall, and studies in the psychodynamics of memory—all emerged in connection with attempts to “sci…Read more
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24Perception in Aristotle - Gregoric Aristotle on the Common Sense. Pp. xiv + 252. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Cased, £40. ISBN: 978-0-19-927737-7 (review)The Classical Review 60 (1): 50-52. 2010.
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91Hylomorphic virtue: cosmology, embryology, and moral development in AristotlePhilosophical Explorations 22 (2): 222-242. 2019.Aristotle is traditionally read as dividing animal souls into three parts, while dividing human souls into four parts (a rational part, with theoretical and pr...
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18One is not Born but Becomes a Person: The Importance of Philosophical MotheringPhilosophic Exchange 36 (1). 2006.Annette Baier is my philosophical foremother. This paper examines Baier’s views on such topics as personal identity and philosophical methodology. It also examines the idea of motherhood, and the various forms that it takes.
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1Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and DutyPhilosophical Quarterly 49 (195): 261-263. 1999.
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2Individual Forms in AristotleDissertation, Cornell University. 1984.Against the traditional view that Aristotle recognizes only one form--a universal--for each infima species, I argue that Aristotle recognizes a plurality of numerically distinct individual forms for each. Chapter One argues that the Metaphysics' criteria for being a substance show that individual forms are substances. Chapter Three argues that individual forms are the principles of individuation for cospecific individuals. ;My main argument is that Aristotle's defense of the distinction between …Read more
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23Aristotle on Form and GenerationProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 35-63. 1990.
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Predicting visual search accuracy in symbolic displays and medical imagesIn Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Perception, Ridgeview Pub. Co. pp. 5-5. 1996.
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34Comments on Susan Suavé's “Why Involuntary Actions Are Painful”Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (S1): 159-167. 1989.
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98Love: self-propagation, self-preservation, or ekstasis?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43 (4): 403-429. 2013.My title refers to three accounts of interpersonal love: the rationalist account that Terence Irwin ascribes to Plato; the anti-rationalist but strikingly similar account that Harry Frankfurt endorses in his own voice; and the ‘ekstatic’ account that I – following the lead of Martha Nussbaum – find in Plato's Phaedrus. My claim is that the ekstatic account points to important features of interpersonal love to which the other accounts fail to do justice, especially reciprocity and a regulative id…Read more
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38Eudaimonia, External Results, and Choosing Virtuous Actions for ThemselvesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 270-290. 2002.Aristotle’s requirement that virtuous actions be chosen for themselves is typically interpreted, in Kantian terms, as taking virtuous action to have intrinsic rather than consequentialist value. This raises problems about how to reconcile Aristotle’s requirement with (a) the fact that virtuous actions typically aim at ends beyond themselves (usually benefits to others); and (b) Aristotle’s apparent requirement that everything (including virtuous action) be chosen for the sake of eudaimonia. I of…Read more
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22Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2005.Persons and passions : an introduction / Christopher Williams What are the passions doing in the Meditations? / Lisa Shapiro Love in the ruins : passion in Descartes’ Meditations / William Beardsley The passionate intellect : reading the opposition of reason and emotions in Descartes / Amy Schmitter Material falsity and the arguments for God’s existence in Descartes’ Meditations / Cecilia Wee Reason unhinged : passion and precipice from Montaigne to Hume / Saul Traiger Reflection and ideas in Hu…Read more
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45Rewriting the Soul (review)Philosophical Review 106 (4): 610-614. 1997.True to his longstanding bias against grand unifying theories, Hacking chooses to pursue these questions by focusing on a specific case of memory-thinking: the history of multiple personality. His excavation of the contemporary terrain leads him, however, to the surprisingly grand conclusion that the various sciences of memory—including neurological studies of localization, experimental studies of recall, and studies in the psychodynamics of memory—all emerged in connection with attempts to “sci…Read more
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267Human Nature and Intellectualism in AristotleArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 68 (1): 70-95. 1986.
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18Locomotive soul: the parts of soul in Aristotle's scientific works'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 22 141-200. 2002.
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121Strong Dialectic, Neurathian Reflection, and the Ascent of Desire: Irwin and Mcdowell on Aristotle’s Methods of EthicsProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 17 (1): 61-122. 2002.
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435Impersonal FriendsThe Monist 74 (1): 3-29. 1991.The rationality of concern for oneself has been taken for granted by the authors of western moral and political thought in a way in which the rationality of concern for others has not. While various authors have differed about the morality of self-concern, and about the extent to which such concern is rationally required, few have doubted that we have at least some special reasons to care for our selves, reasons that differ either in degree or in kind from those we have to care for others. The r…Read more
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12Commentary on FurthProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 268-273. 1986.
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76Metasubstance: Critical notice of Frede-Patzig and FurthPhilosophical Review 100 (4): 607-639. 1991.
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