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    Socrates and Induction: An Aristotelian Evaluation
    In Paolo C. Biondi & Louis F. Groarke (eds.), Shifting the Paradigm: Alternative Perspectives on Induction, De Gruyter. pp. 193-230. 2014.
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    Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 430-432. 2000.
    In the course of examining the notions of cause and explanation, Hankinson’s book draws the reader into a summary of much of Greek philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the end of the Antiquity. Of such a huge survey this review can only provide a brief summary.
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    Classical Cynicism (review)
    Dialogue 38 (3): 677-678. 1999.
    Most students of Greek philosophy would probably find it difficult to recount significant features of Cynic philosophy from their undergraduate or graduate courses in philosophy; it would often be omitted from the treatment of Hellenistic or later philosophy. Such omission was due not simply to an oversight on the part of the instructor but also to the general lack of interest among the scholarly community. Of course, the scholarly community had little material to nourish its insights; Dudley’s …Read more
  • Richard Bodéüs, Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals (review)
    Philosophy in Review 22 317-320. 2002.
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    The modern tradition of informal logic has relied heavily on accepting, modifying, or criticizing the patterns of reasoning mentioned in Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations. However, already in 1971, Stachowiak focussed his attention on the muc h neglected Topics and enumerated in his work, Rationalismus im Ursprung some of the Aristotelian rules governing the formation of definitions and principles for correct reasoning. The paper will try to examine how these principles might ap ply to informa…Read more
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    Hankinson, R. J. Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 430-433. 2000.
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    Toward a New Interpretation of Plato (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 52 (4): 972-974. 1999.
    The purpose of this substantive volume is to familiarize English readers with the Tübingen interpretation of Plato’s thought. Although there are a few other works in English on the German school of Platonism—Catan himself had earlier translated a work of Krämer, the founder of the school— this is by far the most detailed. Moreover, the work also tries to be a systematic defense of the position of the school and to amplify the explanatory power of the position by exploring further implications of…Read more
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    Genres in Dialogue (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 51 (4): 949-950. 1998.