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11VIII—The Best City in Plato’s Republic: Is It possible?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 123 (2): 199-229. 2023.This paper argues that there are three distinct senses of possibility at play in the Republic’s discussion of whether the best city is possible: natural possibility, possibility for existing cities, and ideal possibility. It is argued that Socrates makes different claims about each of the three political proposals in Book v. (1) Women guardians are argued to be naturally possible. (2) Socrates considers it an open question whether the common family of guardians (the so-called ‘community of women…Read more
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122Counting the Unmoved Movers: Astronomy and Explanation in Aristotles Metaphysics XII.8Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 85 (1): 1-20. 2003.
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119Doing and being: an interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics thetaOxford University Press. 2009.Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis.
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7Form/MaterieIn Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Metzler. pp. 232-238. 2011.Die Begriffe ›Form‹ und ›Materie‹ kommen bei Aristoteles zunächst in seiner Analyse der Veränderung vor. In Physik I 7 beispielsweise erläutert Aristoteles die verschiedenen Sinne, in denen man sagen kann, dass etwas zu etwas wird. Er unterscheidet zwischen einfacher und komplexer Rede: Wenn X Y wird, können X und Y mit je einem Wort bezeichnet warden oder mit einem aus mindestens zwei Wörtern bestehenden Ausdruck.
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8Akt und PotenzIn Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Metzler. pp. 193-198. 2011.Die Erklärung der Begriffe ›Akt‹ und ›Potenz‹ erfordert es, zunächst den sprachlichen Hintergrund dieser Begriffe zu erörtern. Es handelt sich dabei nämlich um Ausnahmen in Aristoteles’ Philosophie. Während er sich meistens des Wortschatzes der natürlichen Sprache bedient, oder bisweilen termini technici von seinen Vorgängern übernimmt, sind energeia und entelecheia höchstwahrscheinlich neu erfundene Wörter.
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58Activity, actuality, and analogy: Comments on Aryeh Kosman, The Activity of Being: An Essay on Aristotle's OntologyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 872-880. 2018.
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120Review: Hendrik Lorenz: The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle (review)Mind 117 (468): 1097-1102. 2008.
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32Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics ThetaOxford University Press UK. 2009.Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This appr…Read more
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208Potentiality and the Matter of Composite SubstancePhronesis 51 (4): 303-329. 2006.The paper examines the connection between Aristotle's theory of generated substance and his notion of potentiality in "Metaphysics" Θ.7. Aristotle insists that the matter of a substance is not what that substance is, against a competing view that was widely held both in his day and now. He coined the term thaten (ἐ[unrepresentable symbol]νινονον) in order to make this point. The term highlights a systematic correspondence between the metaphysics of matter and of quality: the relationship between…Read more
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55Colloquium 7: Philosophy, Virtue, and Immortality in Plato’s Phaedo1Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 26 (1): 253-301. 2011.
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35Comments on Aristotle's Modal SyllogisticPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (3): 742-747. 2015.