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57Being and non-being in rig Veda X, in the writings of the Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu, and in the "later" PlatoJournal of Chinese Philosophy 8 (2): 119-142. 1981.
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44Archaeology and the Origins of PhilosophyState University of New York Press. 2010._Detailed study of how Anaximander’s cosmological and philosophical conceptions were affected by architectural technologies._
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40Explaining the cosmos: The Ionian traditIon of scientific philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (3). 2008.We can trace to archaic Greek times detailed accounts of the origins of the cosmos. Anaximander and Hesiod provide different kinds of narrative, but both assume that the cosmos as we find it now was not the way it was at the beginning, and seek to explain how things got this way. According to the conventional view provided by Aristotle in Metaphysics A, the Ionians proposed that everything is derived from a primordial substance and that, despite differences in the world we now experience, all th…Read more
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38Aristotle as Ontologist or Theologian?: Or, Aristotelian Form in the Context of the Conflicting Doctrines of Being in the MetaphysicsSouthwestern Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 79-88. 1979.
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36Anaximander in Context: New Studies in the Origins of Greek PhilosophyState University of New York Press. 2002.Places the development of Anaximander's thought within social, political, cosmological, astronomical, and technological contexts
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34W. H. Werkmeister, ed., "Facets of Plato's Philosophy" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 242. 1981.
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28Heraclitus, Milesian Monism, and the Felting of WoolIn Enrica Fantino, Ulrike Muss, Charlotte Schubert & Kurt Sier (eds.), Heraklit Im Kontext, De Gruyter. pp. 187-210. 2017.
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22Review: Bencivenga, Kant's Copernican Revolution (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (2): 375-376. 1988.
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21Architectural Technologies and the Origins of Greek PhilosophyArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 29 1-29. 2020.In this essay on ancient architectural technologies, I propose to challenge the largely conventional idea of the transcendent origins of philosophy, that philosophy dawned only when the mind turned inside, away from the world grasped by the body and senses. By focusing on one premier episode in the history of western thinking – the emergence of Greek philosophical thought in the cosmic architecture of Anaximander of Miletus – I am arguing that the abstract, speculative, rationalising thinking ch…Read more
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21Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek PhilosophyState University of New York Press. 2001.Uses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy
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14ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΗ and the Problem of to ΠΕΡΑΣ in Philebus 25CB-E5Philosophy Research Archives 5 623-646. 1979.The passage which occurs in Plato's Philebus 25C8-E2 examines the relation between three of four classes of Being which are introduced at 23C. Problems with the text and explication of the passage are considered. Ibis paper attempts to illuminate two central issues of the later dialogues on which the interpretation of this passage rests, the significance of πέρς or the limiting class of Being, and the overall operation of συναγωγή or collection, characterizing the method of diairesis, the founda…Read more
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14Being and Non-Being in Rig Veda X, in the Writings of the Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu, and in the “later” PlatoJournal of Chinese Philosophy 8 (2): 119-142. 1981.
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13Kant's Copernican Revolution (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (2): 375-376. 1988.Ermanno Bencivenga offers us an interpretation of what he calls "Kant's Copernican Revolution" in philosophy. He proposes to illuminate the celebrated obscurity of the Critique by suggesting that it is neither the result of the complicated theory nor of the literary imperfections of the author. Rather, it is the result of the peculiar "revolution" which Kant sought to effect. On Bencivenga's account, Kant wrote the Critique when he was in the middle of a process of fighting against "old modes of…Read more
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11Metaphysics, geometry, and the problems with diagrams -- The Pythagorean theorem: Euclid I.47 and VI.31 -- Thales and geometry: Egypt, Miletus, and beyond -- Pythagoras and the famous theorems -- From the Pythagorean theorem to the construction of the cosmos out of right triangles.
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10Kant's Newtonian Revolution in PhilosophySouthern Illinois University Press. 1988.Hahn boldly corrects the misconceptions of Kant’s Copernican revolution in philosophy and explains the specific Newtonian model used by Kant to construct his own philosophy in the _Critique of Pure Reason. _ Relying on resources familiar to Kant—Newton’s _Opticks _and _Principia _and especially Christian von Wolff’s commentary on scientific method—Hahn argues that Kant viewed Copernicus as the proponent of a novel hypothesis while seeing Newton as the formulator of a rigorously deductive method.…Read more
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Philosophy and Politeia in Plato: the Philosopher-King and the Excellent Politeia (review)Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 20. 2009.
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Alteration and Identity in the Philosophy of Heraclitus (review)Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 20. 2009.
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Robin May Schott, Cognition and Eros: A Critique of the Kantian Paradigm Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 10 (2): 79-80. 1990.
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |