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The TheaetetusIn Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford University Press. 2008.The Theaetetus is a principal field of battle for one of the main disputes between Plato's interpreters. This is the dispute between unitarians and revisionists. This article focuses on Plato's ideas on unitarians and revisionists. Plato's greatest work on epistemology, in the Theaetetus, Plato has much to say about the nature of knowledge elsewhere. But only the Theaetetus offers a set-piece discussion of the question “What is knowledge?” This question is raised most vividly for readers of Plat…Read more
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2Farnesyltransferase inhibitors are anticancer compounds that inhibit Ras GTPases. Since Ras GTPases play key roles in T cell activation and function, we hypothesized that FTIs have immunomodulatory properties and are potential antirejection agents. An investigation was performed on a potent FTI to evaluate this hypothesis in the in vitro setting. The in vitro effects of the FTI A-228839 were evaluated. Lectin- or antigen presenting cell -induced lymphocyte proliferation in the presence of A-2288…Read more
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The Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities in Ancient AtomismIn Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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23What Aristotle Learned from Plato about Justice and LawsPolis 38 (3): 535-556. 2021.In this paper I consider Aristotle’s solutions to two questions about justice and the laws: why think that obeying the law is just? And why think that doing what is just will promote one’s happiness? I analyze Aristotle’s solutions to these two problems in terms of four claims concerning the laws that come from Plato and underwrite Aristotle’s optimism about the potential for politikê epistêmê to issue in laws which are objectively correct.
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34Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.This volume features new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science.
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1"Plato's Theaetetus"In Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford University Press. pp. 211-236. 2008.
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884Justice and the Laws in Aristotle's EthicsIn Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic, Oxford University Press. pp. 104-123. 2014.This paper explores two ideas in Aristotle: the idea that a just person is necessarily a lawful and law-abiding citizen, and second, the idea that the virtuous person necessarily cares about the common good. In this paper, I show that justice and its concern for the common good is central to Aristotle’s conception of the virtuous agent, and that justice, in turn, cannot be understood apart from the various laws that states devise for the common benefit.
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160Epistemology after Protagoras: responses to relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and DemocritusOxford University Press. 2005.Relativism, the position that things are for each as they seem to each, was first formulated in Western philosophy by Protagoras, the 5th century BC Greek orator and teacher. This book focuses on the challenge to the possibility of expert knowledge posed by Protagoras, together with responses by the three most important philosophers of the next generation, Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus. In his book Truth, Protagoras made vivid use of two provocative but imperfectly spelled out ideas. First, t…Read more
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69The distinction between primary and secondary qualities in ancient Greek philosophyIn Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 15. 2011.
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52Epicurus on freedom (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2). 2008.Epicurus is usually credited with being the first to recognize, and disavow, determinism as a threat to freedom of the will . This common assumption has recently come under attack by Susanne Bobzien , and now also by Tim O’Keefe, who, in this rigorously argued but eminently readable book, examines the extant evidence for Epicurus’ views, and concludes that Epicurus was not concerned with the “modern” problem of free will at all
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42Antecedents in early Greek philosophyIn Richard Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 13. 2010.
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43Theaetetus D. Sedley: The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato's Theaetetus. Pp. x + 201. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. Cased, £30. ISBN: 0-19-926703- (review)The Classical Review 55 (02): 430-. 2005.
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13Review of Timothy Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (8). 2006.
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2Conflicting Appearances: Protagoras and the Development of Early Greek EpistemologyDissertation, Harvard University. 1996.In this thesis, I present an account of the development of early Greek epistemology, according to which Protagoras' measure doctrine, and his argument from conflicting appearances, was the starting point for work on perception and knowledge by Plato in the Theaetetus, Aristotle in Metaphysics IV and Democritus. In Chapter One, I argue against the assumption that Protagoras' Aletheia contained a philosophical theory. It was probably not a treatise, but a virtuoso show-piece, with the aim of "knoc…Read more
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8The Secret Doctrine: Plato's Defence of Protagoras in the Theaetetus'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19 47-86. 2000.
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