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13European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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4Platonic Definitions and FormsIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: A Socratic Theory of Definition The Meno: Between Definitions and Forms Forms.
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56Notes on Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics (review)Philosophical Review 91 (1): 112-115. 1982.
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27On A History of Women Philosophers, Volume IHypatia 4 (1): 160-171. 1989.This book sets high standards for itself. Regrettably it fails to meet them: apart from a few displays of thorough and competent research, it is generally based on substandard scholarship
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With Friends, 'more is going on than meets the eye': A Discussion of Terry Penner and Christopher Rowe, Plato's LysisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 323-347. 2006.
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148Plato's Introduction of FormsCambridge University Press. 2004.Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this important book Russell Dancy focuses on the arguments and defends a developmental picture. He explains the Theory of Forms of the Phaedo and Symposium as an outgrowth of the quest for definitions canvassed in the Socratic dialogues, by constructing a Th…Read more
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67Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (4): 634-636. 2008.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to PorphyryR. M. DancyGeorge E. Karamanolis. Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Pp. x + 419. Cloth, $125.00.Coleridge wrote: “Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I do not think it possible that anyone born an Aristotelian can become a Platonist; and I am s…Read more
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98Philosophers on music: Experience, meaning, and work * edited by Kathleen stockAnalysis 72 (1): 207-210. 2012.
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74On some of Aristotle's second thoughts about substances: MatterPhilosophical Review 87 (3): 372-413. 1978.
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95On some of Aristotle's first thoughts about substancesPhilosophical Review 84 (3): 338-373. 1975.
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36The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School (review)Philosophical Review 112 (3): 409-413. 2003.Aristippus of Cyrene was one of Socrates’ associates; he appears in Xenophon’s Memorabilia, where in 2.1.1 Socrates is said to have thought him “quite undisciplined” in matters of food, drink, and sex. Whether he himself was a philosophical hedonist or not is open to discussion; at any rate, the Cyrenaics who succeeded him are supposed to have accepted a variety of hedonism. But they are also supposed to have accepted something that looks like skepticism: we can have knowledge only of our own af…Read more
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36Kant and Critique: New Essays in Honor of W.H. WerkmeisterSpringer. 2010.From the Amazon.com description: On 5–6 April 1991, there was a conference on Kant at Florida State University; this volume collects the (revised versions of the) papers presented on that occasion. The occasion was, give or take a few months, the 90th birthday of Professor (Emeritus) William H. Werkmeister. Werkie (as all his friends call him) himself gave the final paper at this conference. Hence the inclusion of a paper by Werkie in a volume honoring him. Although he is primarily known for his…Read more
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