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27Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2015.Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, …Read more
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13Ἡ δημεραστίαEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 261-276. 2015.This article analyzes the relationship between ethics and politics in Plato’s dialogues. I argue that Plato set forth the care of the self as the organizing principle of ethics and as the idealized form of politics, both of which are conceived of as practices of care insofar as they are directed toward the attainment of the good. I conclude by demonstrating that, while the idealized form of politics is conceived of as a practice of care, such care turns against and resists real world politics in…Read more
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A toil-loving soulIn James M. Ambury & Andy R. German (eds.), Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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2Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore, eds., Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (5): 372-374. 2006.
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78Empeiria kai TribēEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2): 379-394. 2011.In this essay I trace the terms empeiria and tribē throughout the Platonic corpus in order to expose their central position within Plato’s critique of the sophists and rhetoricians. I find that these two terms—both of which indicate a knack or habitude that has been developed through experiential familiarity with certain causal tendencies—are regularly deployed in order to account for the effectiveness of these speakers even in the absence of a technē; for, what Plato identifies with these terms…Read more
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45The Coherence of Socrates’s MissionInternational Philosophical Quarterly 56 (3): 297-314. 2016.The debate over Socrates’s claim in the Apology to have practiced philosophy as a divinely ordained mission is almost as old as this claim itself. Yet scholars remain divided over the issue because of the extraordinary difficulty of understanding how Socrates interpreted the negative proclamation of the oracle as providing a positive prescription for a way of life. Finding this difficultly insurmountable, many authors have denied the coherence of Socrates’s account. In this essay, I argue that t…Read more
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