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Xenophon’s Socrates on Teaching and Learning (2nd ed.)In Russell E. Jones, Ravi Sharma & Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates, Bloomsbury Handbooks. 2024.
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1The Philosophical Origins of Plato's Theory of FormsDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 2001.The dissertation analyzes the ontological and epistemological arguments that motivate Plato's theory of Forms. ;The first chapter explains how the word 'ontology' will be used and, in so doing, compares two ways of determining ontological commitments. ;The second chapter argues that Plato subscribes to the first of those two ways. For at 95E--103C of Plato's Phaedo, the theory of Forms is introduced in a context that is best interpreted as embodying a concern with ontological explanation. Schola…Read more
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39The Anatomy of an Illusion: On Plato's Purported Commitment to Self-PredicationApeiron 40 (2): 159-198. 2007.
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36Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good by Rachana Kamtekar (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (1): 160-161. 2019.
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6What is Aristotle's 'Third Man' Argument Against the Forms?Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 28 123-160. 2005.
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39(F.A.) Grabowski Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms. Pp. xii + 163. London and New York: Continuum, 2008. Cased, £65. ISBN: 978-0-8264-9780-2 (review)The Classical Review 59 (2): 627-628. 2009.
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3Socrates' New Aitia: Causal and Metaphysical Explanations in Plato's PhaedoOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36 137-178. 2009.
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63Commentary On FineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 28 (1): 147-157. 2013.In discussing Gail Fine’s contribution, Sharma challenges the idea that the pseudo-Platonic Sisyphus can productively be interpreted using the philosophical devices of Plato’s Meno. Sharma then explores another approach to the Sisyphus, which involves reading the dialogue as an attack on the tendency to assimilate deliberation to theoretical inquiry and, relatedly, as an attempt to call attention to the practical skills that are uniquely involved in deliberation. Sharma ends by speculating that …Read more
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27Review of Marina McCoy, Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008 (12.36). 2008.
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19Eristic Combat at Euthydemus 285e–286bAustralasian Philosophical Review 3 (2): 167-175. 2019.ABSTRACT M.M. McCabe argues that in Plato’s Euthydemus, Dionysodorus and Euthydemus hold a view she calls ‘chopped logos’. Chopped logos implies that nothing said is false, or opposed to any other statement, or entailed by any other statement. We focus on a key piece of evidence for chopped logos, the argument concluding that there is no such thing as contradiction (285e9–286b6), and defend a competing interpretation. The argument in question, and the eristic exchanges as a whole, are simply exa…Read more
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13The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates (edited book, 2nd ed.)Bloomsbury Handbooks. 2024.This handbook provides detailed philosophical analysis of the life and thought of Socrates across fifteen in-depth chapters. Each chapter engages with a central aspect of the rich tradition of Socratic studies and, after surveying the state of scholarship, points the way forward to new directions of interpretation. A leading team of scholars present dynamic readings of Socrates, extracted from the historical context of Plato's dialogues, covering elenchus, irony, ignorance, definitions, pedagogy…Read more
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34Virtue and Self-Interest in Xenophon’s Memorabilia 3.9.4–5Classical Quarterly 68 (1): 79-90. 2018.Are people at bottom motivated entirely by self-interest? Or do they act only sometimes out of self-interest, and sometimes for other reasons—say, to help out a friend for her own sake, with no expectation of being benefitted in return? Scholars have often thought they could discern in the works of classical Greek thinkers a commitment to psychological egoism, the thesis that one is motivated to act only by considerations of the expected benefits and harms that will accrue to oneself. For instan…Read more
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