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Hannah Gadsby as Philosopher: Is Comedy Really Such a Good Thing?In David Kyle Johnson (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1469-1490. 2022.Hannah Gadsby announces in Nanette that she must quit comedy because it has been unhealthy for her and her audiences. She provides four reasons for thinking this, which include criticisms of self-deprecation, jokes in general, comic relief, and anger. She argues that self-deprecation is humiliating and unhealthy for marginalized people like her; she suggests that jokes cannot provide the comic relief we hope for because of their logical structure; she says that comic relief is not good for us wh…Read more
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4Plato's trial of AthensBloomsbury Academic. 2018.What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato's Dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato's Trial of Athens rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates' accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the record straight and save his city from repeating her worst mistakes of the 5th century. Plato's Trial of Athens addresses …Read more
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32Dave Chappelle and Philosophy (edited book)Popular Culture and Philosophy. 2021.The New York Times have praised Dave Chappelle as "an American folk hero" for his ability to communicate across lines of race, class, and culture at a time when Americans are more polarized than they have ever been. Dave Chappelle and Philosophy brings together twenty-five chapters by philosophers of diverse backgrounds and varying points of view, looking closely at the hilarious, annoying, exhilarating, upsetting, and thought-provoking aspects of Chappelle's wonderfully rich output. This volume…Read more
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25Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece with a new translation of the Seventh Letter by Jonah Radding (edited book)Parnassos Press- Fonte Aretusa. 2019.This book is born from a desire to understand how Plato influenced and was influenced by the intellectual culture of Western Greece, the ancient Hellenic cities of Sicily and Southern Italy. In 2018, a seminar on Plato at Syracuse was organized, in which a small group of scholars discussed a new translation of the Seventh Letter and several essays on the topic. The seminar was intense but friendly, having attracted a diverse group of scholars that ranged from graduate students to senior professo…Read more
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39Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato. By Sara Ahbel-RappeAncient Philosophy 41 (1): 207-215. 2021.
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855Athletics, Gymnastics, and Agon in Plato (edited book)Parnassos Press. 2020.In the Panathenaic Games, there was a torch race for teams of ephebes that started from the altars of Eros and Prometheus at Plato’s Academy and finished on the Acropolis at the altar of Athena, goddess of wisdom. It was competitive, yes, but it was also sacred, aimed at a noble goal. To win, you needed to cooperate with your teammates and keep the delicate flame alive as you ran up the hill. Likewise, Plato’s philosophy combines competition and cooperation in pursuit of the goal of wisdom. On o…Read more
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4The politics of impiety: why was Socrates prosecuted by the Athenian democracy?In John Bussanich & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates, Continuum. 2013.
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41Heidegger's PlatonismContinuum. 2009.Introduction -- What is platonism? -- Schleiermacher's pedagogical interpretation of Plato -- What's wrong with the current debate -- The romantic rediscovery of Plato's ineffable ontology -- Conclusions: Ineffability and dialogue form -- Untying Schleiermacher's gordian knot -- Metaphysical ineffability : the argument from language and human finitude -- Spiritual ineffability: the argument from self-transformation -- Existential ineffability : the argument from life choice -- Platonism reconsid…Read more
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30Plato and Heidegger: A Question of Dialogue, by Francisco J. GonzalezAncient Philosophy 33 (2): 446-453. 2013.
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