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    Phaedo 100B3-9
    Mnemosyne 68 (3): 393-412. 2015.
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    Ontology Summit 2021 Communiqué: Ontology generation and harmonization
    with Ken Baclawski, Michael Bennett, Gary Berg-Cross, Leia Dickerson, Todd Schneider, Selja Seppälä, Ram D. Sriram, and Andrea Westerinen
    Applied ontology 17 (2): 233-248. 2022.
    Advances in machine learning and the development of very large knowledge graphs have accompanied a proliferation of ontologies of many types and for many purposes. These ontologies are commonly developed independently, and as a result, it can be difficult to communicate about and between them. To address this difficulty of communication, ontologies and the communities they serve must agree on how their respective terminologies and formalizations relate to each other. The process of coming into a…Read more
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    Ontology summit 2020 communiqué: Knowledge graphs
    with Ken Baclawski, Michael Bennett, Gary Berg-Cross, Todd Schneider, Janet Singer, and Ram D. Sriram
    Applied ontology 16 (2): 229-247. 2021.
    An increasing amount of data is now available from public and private sources. Furthermore, the types, formats, and number of sources of data are also increasing. Techniques for extracting, storing, processing, and analyzing such data have been developed in the last few years for managing this bewildering variety based on a structure called a knowledge graph. Industry has devoted a great deal of effort to the development of knowledge graphs, and knowledge graphs are now critical to the functions…Read more
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    Eristic Combat at Euthydemus 285e–286b
    with Russell E. Jones
    Australasian 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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    Xenophon's Socrates on Justice and Well-being
    Ancient Philosophy 40 (1): 19-40. 2020.
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    Xenophon's Socrates on Harming Enemies
    Ancient Philosophy 39 (2): 253-265. 2019.
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    Platonic Inquiry
    Polis 34 (1): 147-155. 2017.
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    Virtue and self-interest in xenophon’s memorabilia 3.9.4–5
    Classical 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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    This bold and wide-ranging study aims to revise a common picture of Plato’s thinking about human motivation. Kamtekar identifies the picture as one whereby Plato’s Socrates initially embraces intellectualism because he holds that an agent is motivated only by rational considerations based on her own good, and rejects that standpoint in the Republic with the doctrine of the tripartite soul. Kamtekar argues instead that, for Socrates, “human beings have a natural desire for our own good,” and that…Read more
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    Ontology Summit 2018 Communiqué: Contexts in context
    with Kenneth Baclawski, Mike Bennett, Gary Berg-Cross, Cory Casanave, Donna Fritzsche, Joanne Luciano, Todd Schneider, Janet Singer, John Sowa, Ram D. Sriram, Andrea Westerinen, and David Whitten
    Applied ontology 13 (3): 181-200. 2018.
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    Ontology Summit 2017 communiqué – AI, learning, reasoning and ontologies
    with Kenneth Baclawski, Mike Bennett, Gary Berg-Cross, Donna Fritzsche, Todd Schneider, Ram D. Sriram, and Andrea Westerinen
    Applied ontology 13 (1): 3-18. 2018.
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    Ontology Summit 2017 communiqué – AI, learning, reasoning and ontologies
    with Kenneth Baclawski, Mike Bennett, Gary Berg-Cross, Donna Fritzsche, Todd Schneider, D. Sriram Ram, and Andrea Westerninen
    Applied ontology 1-16. forthcoming.
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    Two Annotated Bibliographies on the Presocratics (review)
    with Sylvia Berryman and Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
    Ancient Philosophy 15 (2): 471-494. 1995.
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    The Philosophical Origins of Plato's Theory of Forms
    Dissertation, 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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    Commentary On Fine
    Proceedings 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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