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19Monism, Metaphysics, and ParadoxIn Daniel Bloom, Laurence Bloom & Miriam Byrd (eds.), Knowing and Being in Ancient Philosophy, Springer Nature. pp. 73-95. 2022.Heraclitus accepts as a principle that any particular insight into things is necessarily partial and perspectival. Edward Halper has discussed how, for this reason, it is in principle impossible for a particular thinker to attain the perspective of the Logos by which the whole can be made intelligible. So, metaphysics itself tells us that metaphysics is impossible. According to Halper, Heraclitus was wrong to take the Logos as applying to itself, as the Logos should properly be understood as app…Read more
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4Pythagoreanism and the History of DemonstrationIn Chelsea C. Harry & Justin Habash (eds.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, Brill. pp. 193-220. 2021.Three key elements of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration have Pythagorean antecedents. Demonstration is a revelatory discourse that is 1) inferential, 2) explicitly based on premises that are not themselves demonstrated on the basis of more basic premises, and 3) explanatory, insofar as the premises express those basic facts that are explanatory of the conclusion. The Pythagorean Table of Opposites constitutes a kind of protologic making possible a kind of deduction, which Aristotle would have …Read more
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15The Greeks and the Environment (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus. Recognizing that these thinkers were not confronted with the environmental degradation that threatens…Read more
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13Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (review)Ancient Philosophy 20 (2): 518-520. 2000.
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9Book Review of Aristotle on Truth, by P. Crivelli (review)Ancient History Bulletin 20 149-51. 2006.
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2Book Review of Aristotle’s Theory of Actuality, by Zev Bechler (review)Ancient Philosophy 17 (1): 226-30. 2001.
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3Review of Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought by Michael T. Ferejohn (review)Ancient Philosophy 35 (2): 458-64. 2015.
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10Symbolic Classification and The Emergence of a Metaphysics of CausalityReview of Metaphysics 76 (1): 3-17. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Symbolic Classification and The Emergence of a Metaphysics of CausalityOwen Goldinwhat is distinctive about metaphysics as a mode of thought that emerged in the fifth century before the Common Era? How did it emerge out of early ways of conceptualizing the world as a whole, and why? Many answers have been proposed. One common view is that earlier modes of thought personify natural agencies; once this is abandoned, the way is open for…Read more
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17Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms. By James G. LennoxAncient Philosophy 42 (2): 563-566. 2022.
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5Review of The Enthymeme. Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric (review)Classical Review 72 (1): 79-81. 2022.
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2On National IdentityInference: International Review of Science 3 (1). 2017.In response to “Trump and the Trumpists” (Vol. 3, No. 1).
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4Review of Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainability, by Melissa Lane (review)Polis 29 (2): 350-354. 2012.
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5Review of Principles and Proofs: Aristotle’s Theory of Demonstrative Science by Richard D. McKirahan, Jr (review)International Studies in Philosophy 29 (2): 137-138. 1997.
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3Book Review of Aristotle on Homonymy: Dialectic and Science, by Julie K. Ward (review)Ancient Philosophy 30 (1): 183-6. 2010.
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Review of Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence by James Allen (review)Ancient Philosophy 23 452-58. 2003.
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1Book Review of Aristotle on Definition, by Marquerite Deslauriers (review)Ancient Philosophy 29 (2): 427-31. 2009.
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4Book Review of Truth, etc: Six Lectures on Ancient Logic, by Jonathan Barnes (review)Ancient Philosophy 29 (2): 432-7. 2009.
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4Review of Some Philosophical Issues in Moral Matters: the Collected Ethical Writings of Joseph Owens (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (3): 196-8. 1997.
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2Review of Plato's Reception of Parmenides by John A. Palmer (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 200102. 2001.
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8Cosmic Orientation in Aristotle’s De CaeloIn Gary M. Gurtler & William Wians (eds.), Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xxvi, Brill. pp. 91-117. 2011.This paper examines how within De Caelo Aristotle argues that the heavens rotate to the right, because this is best. I isolate and evaluate its presuppositions and show how it comprises both a dialectical argument to cosmological principles and a partial demonstrative explanation on the basis of such principles. Second, I consider the expressions of epistemological hesitation that Aristotle offers in regard to this (and similar) arguments, and draw conclusions concerning the status of cosmology …Read more
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35Pistis, Persuasion, and Logos in AristotleElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 41 (1): 49-70. 2020.The core sense of pistis as understood in Posterior Analytics, De Anima, and the Rhetoric is not that of a logical relation in which cognitively grasped propositions stand in respect to one another, but the result of an act of socially embedded interpersonal communication, a willing acceptance of guidance offered in respect to action. Even when pistis seems to have an exclusively epistemological sense, this focal meaning of pistis is implicit; to have pistis in a proposition is to willingly acce…Read more
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271Kath’ hauta predicates and the ‘commensurate universals’Manuscrito 42 (4): 44-84. 2019.What lies behind Aristotle’s declarations that an attribute or feature that is demonstrated to belong to a scientific subject is proper to that subject? The answer is found in APo. 2.8-10, if we understand these chapters as bearing not only on Aristotle theory of definition but also as clarifying the logical structure of demonstration in general. If we identify the basic subjects with what has no different cause, and demonstrable attributes with what do have ‘a different cause’, the definitions …Read more
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