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25European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 1991.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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1Platonic Definitions and FormsIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: A Socratic Theory of Definition The Meno: Between Definitions and Forms Forms.
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9Notes on Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics (review)Philosophical Review 91 (1): 112-115. 1982.
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2On 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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7Plato'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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7Plato 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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1Philosophers on music: Experience, meaning, and work * edited by Kathleen stockAnalysis 72 (1): 207-210. 2012.
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9On some of Aristotle's first thoughts about substancesPhilosophical Review 84 (3): 338-373. 1975.
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7On some of Aristotle's second thoughts about substances: MatterPhilosophical Review 87 (3): 372-413. 1978.
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2Review: On A History of Women Philosophers, Vol. I (review)Hypatia 4 (1). 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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4Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesPhilosophical Review 95 (2): 290. 1986.
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