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30H. Dorrie and M. Baltes, Der Platonismus in der Antike vols 3 and 4 (review)The Classical Review 48 (2): 356-358. 1998.
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12The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's PhaedoCambridge University Press. 2021.This study of Plato's Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul's immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis. Unlike the argument for the soul's immortality in the Phaedrus, which does seem intended as a proof, the Phaedo arguments are proceeding toward the first principles that could serve as the basis for a proof - the most important being an account of the…Read more
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82Parmenides and Presocratic PhilosophyOxford University Press UK. 2009.John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being, necessary non-being or impossibility, and non-necessary or contingent being. This book accordingly reconsiders his place in the historical development of Presocratic philosophy in light of this new interpretation. Careful treatment of Parmenides' specification of the ways of inquiry that define hi…Read more
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3MORE ON THE DERVENI PAPYRUS - (G.W.) MOST (ed.) Studies on the Derveni Papyrus. Volume 2. Pp. xxvi + 405, map, b/w & colour pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Cased, £90, US$115. ISBN: 978-0-19-285595-4 (review)The Classical Review 73 (2): 433-436. 2023.
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27The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy. The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics (review)Ancient Philosophy 32 (1): 176-181. 2012.
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29Studies on the Derveni Papyrus. A Laks, G W Most (edd.)The Classical Review 48 (2): 451-452. 1998.
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57Plato's reception of ParmenidesOxford University Press. 1999.John Palmer presents a new and original account of Plato's uses and understanding of his most important Presocratic predecessor, Parmenides. Adopting an innovative approach to the appraisal of intellectual influence, Palmer first explores the Eleatic underpinnings of central elements in Plato's middle-period epistemology and metaphysics and then shows how in the later dialogues Plato confronts various sophistic appropriations of Parmenides.
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36Parmenides’ Grand Deduction: A Logical Reconstruction of the Way of TruthAncient Philosophy 36 (1): 209-214. 2016.
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56Plato: Complete Works: edited with introduction and notes (review)The Classical Review 48 (2): 482-482. 1998.
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23Plato and His Predecessors: The Dramatisation of ReasonPhilosophical Review 111 (2): 299-302. 2002.In this ambitious and highly original study, McCabe presents an intricately structured argument designed to demonstrate Plato’s concern with fundamental issues of rationality and personhood. In doing so, she pursues themes announced in her Plato’s Individuals and in Form and Argument in Late Plato, a collection she co-edited with Christopher Gill. The development of her position via consideration of the philosophical importance of characterization and the dialogue form in the Theaetetus, Sophist…Read more
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7Method and Metaphysics: Essays in Ancient PhilosophyPhilosophical Quarterly 65 (258): 123-128. 2015.
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34(E.) Passa Parmenide. Tradizione del testo e questioni di lingua. (Quaderni dei Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca 12.) Pp. 167. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2009. Paper, €31. ISBN: 978-88-7140-102- (review)The Classical Review 60 (2): 605-606. 2010.
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27Der Platonismus in der Antike, 3: Der Platonismus in 2. und 3. Jahrhundet nach Christus. Baustein 73-100: Text, Uberstetzung, Kommentar. H Dorrie. Der Platonismus in der Antike, 4: Die philosphische Lehre des Platonismus. Einige grundlegende Axiomel Platonische Physik (im antiken Verstandnis) I. Bausteine 101-124: Text, Uberstetzung, Kommentar (review)The Classical Review 48 (2): 356-358. 1998.
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10Classical representations and uses of the presocraticsIn Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.Anyone interested in the influence of Presocratic thought may be tempted to begin with Plato and Aristotle. There is, however, sufficient evidence of Presocratic influence among the sophists to make it clear that this temptation should be resisted. Some traces of this earlier influence may be found in Plato and Aristotle themselves, and this fact should serve as a reminder that their own involvement with Presocratic philosophy did not take place in a vacuum but will have been conditioned or medi…Read more
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23A New Testimonium on Diogenes of Apollonia, with Remarks on Melissus' CosmologyClassical Quarterly 51 (1): 7-17. 2001.
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67The New Academy's Appeals to the PresocraticsPhronesis 46 (1): 38-72. 2001.Members of the New Academy presented their sceptical position as the culmination of a progressive development in the history of philosophy, which began when certain Presocratics started to reflect on the epistemic status of their theoretical claims concerning the natures of things. The Academics' dogmatic opponents accused them of misrepresenting the early philosophers in an illegitimate attempt to claim respectable precedents for their dangerous position. The ensuing debate over the extent to w…Read more
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