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5The Science and Axioms of BeingIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Aristotle's Declaration of a General Science of Being qua Being A Problem for the Science of Being The Content of the General Science of Being Including Axioms in the General Science of Being The Notion of the Firmest Principle Proving Something about an Axiom: the Indubitability Proof of PNC PNC as the Ultimate Principle Defending an Axiom: the Elenctic Proof of PNC Theology and the General Science of Being Notes Bibliography.
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52. Subjects and Substance in Metaphysics Z 3In Christof Rapp (ed.), Aristoteles: Metaphysik. Die Substanzbücher (Z, H, Θ), Akademie Verlag. pp. 41-73. 1996.
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65The Scope of Non-Contradiction: A Note on Aristotle's 'Elenctic' Proof in "Metaphysics" Γ 4Apeiron 32 (3): 231-242. 1999.
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14Trouble in Paradise?Grazer Philosophische Studien 42 (1): 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions (MI) and the picture theory of the proposition (PIC) or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition…Read more
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21Trouble in Paradise?Grazer Philosophische Studien 42 (1): 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions (MI) and the picture theory of the proposition (PIC) or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition…Read more
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17‘Said of and ‘Predicated of' in the CategoriesPhilosophy Research Archives 5 418-432. 1979.Anyone with more than casual interest in Aristotle's Categories knows the convention that "predicated of" ["κατηγορεἳται"] marks a general relation of predication while "said of" ["λέγεται"] is reserved for essential predication. By "convention" I simply mean to underscore that the view in question ranks as the conventional or received interpretation. Ackrill, for example, follows the received view in holding that only items within the same category (not arbitrarily, of course) can stand in the …Read more
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11Nozick on Explaining NothingPhilosophy Research Archives 10 337-346. 1984.This paper raises some difficulties with the strategy suggested in Robert Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations for explaining why there is something rather than nothing. I am concerned less with his adoption of an egalitarian, as opposed to inegalitarian, explanatory stance (the net effect of which is to detach for independent consideration the question, “Why is there something?”) than with his use of a crucial assumption in reasoning from the egalitarian point of view. I argue that this assumpti…Read more
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73Collection and Division in the Phaedrus and StatesmanPhilosophical Inquiry 12 (1-2): 1-21. 1990.
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5Criss-crossing a Philosophical LandscapeGrazer Philosophische Studien 42 23-55. 1992.It is argued that Wittgenstein did not abandon his tractarian position because he was of the opinion that the Tractatus suffered from an intemal incoherence inherited from the incompatibility of the thesis of mutual independence of elementary propositions and the picture theory of the proposition or an incoherent notion of the elementary proposition itself. In the way suggested, TLP provides no opportunity for such concems to arise, for the inner sub-surface structure of a proposition cannot cau…Read more
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13Aristotle’s Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics ZetaPhilosophical Quarterly 52 (207): 256-258. 2002.
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56Nozick on Explaining NothingPhilosophy Research Archives 10 337-346. 1984.This paper raises some difficulties with the strategy suggested in Robert Nozick’s Philosophical Explanations for explaining why there is something rather than nothing. I am concerned less with his adoption of an egalitarian, as opposed to inegalitarian, explanatory stance (the net effect of which is to detach for independent consideration the question, “Why is there something?”) than with his use of a crucial assumption in reasoning from the egalitarian point of view. I argue that this assumpti…Read more
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Animadversions on Burnyeat's Theaetetus: On the Logic of the Exquisite ArgumentIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxix: Winter 2005, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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1On the Use and Abuse of Non-Contradiction: Aristotle's Critique of Protagoras and Heraclitus in Metaphysics Gamma 5In David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvi: Summer 2004, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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16Aristotle's Theory of Substance : The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta: The Categories and Metaphysics ZetaOxford University Press UK. 2000.Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. In the early theory of the Categories the basic entities of the world are concrete objects such as Socrates: Aristotle calls them 'primary substances'. But the later theory awards this title to the forms of concrete objects. Michael Wedin proposes a compatibilist solution to this long…Read more
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16Aristotle’s Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics ZetaOxford University Press UK. 2000.Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. In the early theory of the Categories the basic entities of the world are concrete objects such as Socrates: Aristotle calls them 'primary substances'. But the later theory awards this title to the forms of concrete objects. Michael Wedin proposes a compatibilist solution to this long…Read more
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Taking Stock of the Central Books: A Review of Aristotle: Metaphysics, Books Z and H, trans. with Commentary by David Bostock (review)Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 14 241-271. 1996.
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Parmendies' Three Ways and the Failure of the Ionian InterpretationOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 41 1-65. 2011.
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27Chapter 5. Aristotle on the Mind’s Self-MotionIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. pp. 81-116. 2017.
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Human Nature and Natural Knowledge. Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her Seventy-Fifth BirthdayBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 89 3-381. 1986.
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208Aristotle on the Firmness of the Principle of Non-ContradictionPhronesis 49 (3): 225-265. 2004.In "Metaphysics" Gamma 3 Aristotle declares that the philosopher investigates things that are qua things that are and that he therefore should be able to state the firmest principles of everything. The firmest principle of all is identified as the principle of non-contradiction (PNC). The main focus of Gamma 3 is Aristotle's proof for this identification. This paper begins with remarks about Aristotle's notion of the firmness of a principle and then offers an analysis of the firmness proof for P…Read more
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5On the use and abuse of non-contradiction: Aristotle's critique of Protagoras and Heraclitus in Metaphysics gamma 5Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 213-239. 2004.
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