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1The Practice of a PhilosopherIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxvi: Summer 2004, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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2Thinking About Forms and ParticularsMéthexis 27 (1): 159-173. 2014.This paper explores the deep dualism, metaphysical and epistemological, between Forms and particulars in Plato’s work. It both argues that the dualism exists and offers a hypothesis, concerning Plato’s view of the criteria for thinking of an object, to explain it. The paper concludes that while these criteria are indeed stringent, they nonetheless allow the possibility that we can still think of, and know, individuals.
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2Myles Burnyeat, The Theatetus of Plato, translation by M.J. Levett, India-napolis/Cambridge, 1990 (Hackett Publishing Company, xvi + 351 páginas) (review)Méthexis 7 (1): 148-150. 1994.
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12Plato's CharmidesCambridge University Press. 2023.Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael Woolf presents a compelling and unified reading of the work as a whole.
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22Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.This book revisits, and sheds fresh light on, some key texts and debates in ancient philosophy. Its twin targets are 'Old Chestnuts' – well-known passages in the works of ancient philosophers about which one might have thought everything there is to say has already been said – and 'Sacred Cows' – views about what ancient philosophers thought, on issues of philosophical importance, that have attained the status of near-unquestioned orthodoxy. Thirteen leading scholars respond to these challenges …Read more
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3Cicero: On Moral Ends (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2001.This 2001 translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy available to modern readers. Cicero is increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf's translation does justice to Cicero's argumentative vigour as well as to the philosophical ideas involved, while Julia Ann…Read more
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13Gill’s rich and comprehensive discussion of Stoic ethical thought adopts an approach that would surely have found favour with the Stoics themselves: to present
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22Schofield, Malcolm,_ _Cicero: Political Philosophy. Oxford / New York:: Oxford University Press 2021, xiv + 285 pp (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 105 (2): 349-351. 2023.
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3Unnatural Law: A Ciceronian PerspectiveIn Peter Adamson & Christof Rapp (eds.), State and Nature: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 221-246. 2021.
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Ethical theory and the good lifeIn Jed W. Atkins & Thomas Bénatouïl (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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19Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman ScepticRoutledge. 2014.Cicero's philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero's value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schools is unquestioned, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic explores his writings as works of philosophy that do more than simply synthesize the thought of others, but instead offer a unique viewpoi…Read more
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53The School of Doubt: Skepticism, History and Politics in Cicero’s, written by Orazio CappelloInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 10 (2): 167-171. 2020.
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35Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy_ _, edited by S. Weisser and N. ThalerInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (1): 65-68. 2018.
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Knowing How to Ask: A Discussion of Gail Fine, The Possibility of InquiryOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 49 363-391. 2015.
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2Particularism, Promises, and Persons in Cicero's De officiisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 317-346. 2007.
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207Plato and the Norms of ThoughtMind 122 (485): 171-216. 2013.This paper argues for the presence in Plato’s work of a conception of thinking central to which is what I call the Transparency View. According to this view, in order for a subject to think of a given object, the subject must represent that object just as it is, without inaccuracy or distortion. I examine the ways in which this conception influences Plato’s epistemology and metaphysics and explore some ramifications for contemporary views about mental content
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73R. J. Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, cloth £48.00. ISBN: 0 19 823745 6British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (3): 545-547. 2000.
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160Consistency and Akrasia in Plato's ProtagorasPhronesis 47 (3): 224-252. 2002.Relatively little attention has been paid to Socrates' argument against akrasia in Plato's "Protagoras" as an example of Socratic method. Yet seen from this perspective the argument has some rather unusual features: in particular, the presence of an impersonal interlocutor ("the many") and the absence of the crisp and explicit argumentation that is typical of Socratic elenchus. I want to suggest that these features are problematic, considerably more so than has sometimes been supposed, and to of…Read more
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124What Kind of Hedonist was Epicurus?Phronesis 49 (4): 303-322. 2004.This paper addresses the question of whether or not Epicurus was a psychological hedonist. Did he, that is, hold that all human action, as a matter of fact, has pleasure as its goal? Or was he just an ethical hedonist, asserting merely that pleasure ought to be the goal of human action? I discuss a recent forceful attempt by John Cooper to answer the latter question in the affirmative, and argue that he fails to make his case. There is considerable evidence in favour of a psychological reading o…Read more
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15Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy. Theoria in its Cultural Context (review)The Classical Review 56 (1): 49-51. 2006.
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35Pleasure and desireIn James Warren (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 158. 2009.
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80A Shaggy Soul Story: How not to Read the Wax Tablet Model in Plato’s TheaetetusPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (3). 2004.This paper sets out to re-examine the famous Wax Tablet model in Plato's Theaetetus, in particular the section of it which appeals to the quality of individual souls' wax as an explanation of why some are more liable to make mistakes than others (194c-195a). This section has often been regarded as an ornamental flourish or a humorous appendage to the model's main explanatory business. Yet in their own appropriations both Aristotle and Locke treat the notion of variable wax quality as an importan…Read more