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26Philosophical Conversations in PrisonsThe Philosophers' Magazine 97 88-92. 2022.Mike Coxhead and James Chamberlain on the transformative potential of philosophical conversations in prison.
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13A Note from the EditorsJournal of Prison Education and Reentry 7 (2): 88-102. 2021.Editorial to the Special Issue "Critical Reflections on Philosophy, Education, and Prison Sociology". The Issue focuses on the intersection of philosophy with prisons, prisoners, and prison research, particularly in prison education and prison sociology. It takes in a broad range of topics, including the role of philosophy in prisons and prison research; the value of formal programmes of philosophical education in prisons; issues of trust, freedom, collaboration, and power in the prison classroo…Read more
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63A close examination of the pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanical Problems: The homology between mechanics and poetry as technēStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 43 (2): 300-306. 2012.The pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanical Problems is the earliest known ancient Greek text on mechanics, principally concerned with the explanation of a variety of mechanical phenomena using a particular construal of the principle of the lever. In the introduction, the author (thought to be an early Peripatetic) quotes the tragic poet Antiphon to summarise a discussion of the techne-physis (art-nature) relationship and the status of mechanics as a techne. I argue that this citation of a poet is an Ari…Read more
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