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47An Inquiry into Book VI of Plato’s RepublicJournal of Philosophical Research 24 345-364. 1999.This essay scrutinizes certain cardinal themes of Book VI of Plato’s Republic. After a brief inquiry into, and defense of the cogency of, the preliminary methodological groundwork for the study of Platonic dialogues and their sections, the essay probes into the VIth book.
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28Normative Revisionism about Student CheatingJournal of Academic Ethics 19 (1): 1-23. 2020.This paper considers characteristic views advanced in the past fifteen years that may be considered relatively sympathetic to student practices of cheating on graded assignments or exams. We detect and analyze typical fallacies that are recurrent in articles that promote a revisionist view of cheating as morally permissible. We offer a general, deontological argument that cheating is immoral. The efforts to justify student cheating take several forms. For example, it has been argued that cheatin…Read more
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27The Confusion of Logical Types in Plato's ParmenidesPhilosophical Inquiry 40 (1-2): 13-29. 2016.
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8Spinoza's rejection of classical hedonismStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 12 73-104. 1996.
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5Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2006.First English translation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s 1909 doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche
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5Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2007._First English translation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s 1909 doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche._
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4An Inquiry into Book VI of Plato’s RepublicJournal of Philosophical Research 24 345-364. 1999.This essay scrutinizes certain cardinal themes of Book VI of Plato’s Republic. After a brief inquiry into, and defense of the cogency of, the preliminary methodological groundwork for the study of Platonic dialogues and their sections, the essay probes into the VIth book.
Brandeis University
PhD, 1999