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21Natural Inseparability in Aristotle, Metaphysics E.1, 1026a14Apeiron 56 (2): 261-297. 2023.At Aristotle,MetaphysicsE.1, 1026a14, Schwegler’s conjectural emendation of the manuscript reading ἀχώριστα to χωριστά has been widely adopted. The objects of physical science are therefore here ‘separate’, or ‘independently existent’. By contrast, the manuscripts make them ‘not separate’, construed by earlier commentators as dependent on matter. In this paper, I offer a new defense of the manuscript reading. I review past defenses based on the internal consistency of the chapter, explore where …Read more
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5The First Principle in Late Neoplatonism: A Study of the One’s Causality in Proclus and Damascius by Jonathan GreigReview of Metaphysics 75 (2): 375-377. 2021.
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13What is an aisthêton? “Ordinary things” among the Neoplatonist commentators on the CategoriesQuaestiones Disputatae 4 (2): 24-41. 2014.
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10Questioning… Sir Richard SorabjiBochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch Fur Antike Und Mittelalter 23 (1): 248-268. 2020.
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5Chapter 6. Hypostasizing SocratesIn Harold Tarrant & Danielle A. Layne (eds.), The Neoplatonic Socrates, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 97-108. 2014.
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6‘Language Converts ψυχή’: Reflections on Commentary in Late Ancient Philosophical Research and EducationIn Benedikt Strobel (ed.), Die Kunst der Philosophischen Exegese Bei den Spätantiken Platon- Und Aristoteles-Kommentatoren, De Gruyter. pp. 127-158. 2018.
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9Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (edited book)Peter Lang. 2007.A series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors which explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the book investigates key aspects of utopian theory, texts, and socio-political practices.
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12Aristotle's Categories in the Early Roman EmpireOxford University Press. 2015.This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's Categories, and illuminates the earliest arguments for Aristotle's approach to logic as the foundation of higher education.
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1Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's UtopianismUtopian Studies 18 (3). 2007.
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189Proclus on Place as the Luminous Vehicle of the SoulDionysius 30 161-186. 2012.Proclus argues that place (topos) is a body of light, identified as the luminous vehicle of the soul, which mediates between soul and body and facilitates motion. Simplicius (in Phys. 611,10–13) suggests that this theory is original to Proclus, and unique in describing light as a body. This paper focuses on the function of this theory as a bridge between Proclus’ physics and metaphysics, allowing the Aristotelian physical notion of “natural place” to serve as a mechanism for the descent and asce…Read more
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9Which 'Athenodorus' Commented on Aristotle's Categories?Classical Quarterly 63 (1): 199-208. 2013.The principate of Augustus coincided with a surge of interest in the short Aristotelian treatise which we now entitle Categories, contributing to its later installation at the outset of the philosophical curriculum and its traditional function as an introduction to logic. Thanks in part to remarks made by Plutarch and Porphyry , the origin of this interest has often been traced to Andronicus of Rhodes: his catalogue and publication of the Aristotelian corpus began with the Categories and may hav…Read more
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1What Does Aristotle Categorize? Semantics and the Early Peripatetic Reading of the CategoriesBulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 55 (1): 65-108. 2012.This paper explores the role of early imperial Peripatetics – in particular, Andronicus of Rhodes, Boethus of Sidon, Herminus, and Alexander – in the development of the canonical reading of the Categories influentially maintained by Porphyry. I investigate the common threads of Middle Platonist and Peripatetic views on the value of the Categories, focusing on the utility of the method of division (diairesis) for acquiring knowledge (epistêmê), and argue for a shared Peripatetic-Platonist consens…Read more
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11Sharples R.W. Peripatetic Philosophy 200 BC to AD 200: an Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (Cambridge Source-Books in Post-Hellenistic Philosophy). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xix + 309. £22.99. 9780521711852 (review)Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 303-304. 2013.
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |