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6Listening to Reason in Plato and AristotleMind 132 (527): 828-833. 2021.When we are in a rational frame of mind we are ready to listen to reason (tautology). But if we are not in a rational frame of mind, how does reason (in this ca.
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7Heavenly Bodies and First CausesIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes Bibliography.
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34The Creation of the WorldAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1). 2004.Part 1 examines the roles of (a) intelligent cause, (b) empirical materials (fire, earth etc.), and (c) the resulting cosmos, in the account of world-making in the Timaeus. It is argued that the presence of (b) is essential for the distinctness of (a) and (c); and an explanation is proposed for why the biblical idea of creation faces no such problem. Part II shows how different suggestions implicit in Plato's doctrine of the intelligible model give rise to radically different kinds of Platonic m…Read more
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9La chance et les biens moraux et non moraux chez AristoteLes Etudes Philosophiques 138 (3): 49-63. 2021.Le sujet de l’étude est la relation entre le bonheur et la chance selon Aristote. Ce problème est abordé à partir de la question de savoir si la sagesse et la vertu suffisent au bonheur. Si tel était le cas, une personne pauvre et malade serait heureuse. Pour Aristote, au contraire, le bonheur nécessite des biens non moraux pour être complet. Le bonheur n’est pas seulement ce qui rend les autres choses bonnes, il est aussi ce qui est complet et désirable. Dans ce cas, la question du rapport du b…Read more
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Truth and Story in the Timaeus-CritiasIn G. Boys-Stones, C. Gill & D. El-Murr (eds.), The Platonic Art of philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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Words, deeds, and lovers of truth in AristotleIn Jenny Bryan, Robert Wardy & James Warren (eds.), Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2018.
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Aristotle on luck, happiness, and Solon's dictumIn Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. 2019.
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19Mathematics in Plato's RepublicMarquette University Press. 2020.A discussion of Plato's evaluation of mathematics as an intellectual discipline, and his reasons for training his philosopher-rulers to be mathematical experts.
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A Science of First Principles A Science of First Principles Metaphysics A 2In Oliver Primavesi (ed.), Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha: Symposium Aristotelicum, Oxford University Press. 2012.This chapter continues the discussion of Cambiano's on A 1, since Aristotle's chapters A 1-2 are evidently a continuous introduction. The problem of what exactly it is an introduction to, i.e. the perennial question of the unity and diversity of Aristotle's metaphysical treatises, is considered here, although necessarily only in outline. It is also argued that, contrary to some scholarly opinions, this introduction should not be regarded as a protreptic to philosophy as such, i.e. as belonging t…Read more
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30Plato's Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the RepublicCambridge University Press. 2021.Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the good. With detailed arguments Sarah Broadie explains how, if we think of the form of the good as 'interrogative', we can re-conceive those central reference-points of Platonism in down-to-earth terms without loss to our sense of Plato's philosophical greatness. The book's main aims are: first, to show how for Plato the form of the good is of practical v…Read more
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Aristotle's Epistemic Progress: Terence Irwin, Aristotle's First PrinciplesIn C. C. W. Taylor (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Xi: 1993, Clarendon Press. 1993.
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Theodicy and Pseudo-History in the TimaeusIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume Xxi: Winter 2001, Clarendon Press. 2001.
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Where is the activity? An Aristotelian worry about the telic status of energeiaIn eds Robert and Bolton James Lennox (ed.), Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf, Cambridge University Press. pp. 198-211. 2010.
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665Soul and Body in Plato and DescartesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 101 (1): 295-308. 2001.Although they are often grouped together in comparison with non-dualist theories, Plato's soul-body dualism, and Descartes' mind-body dualism, are fundamentally different. The doctrines examined are those of the Phaedo and the Meditations. The main difference, from which others flow, lies in Plato's acceptance and Descartes' rejection of the assumption that the soul (= intellect) is identical with what animates the body.
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21Corporeal gods, with Reference to Plato and AristotleIn Thomas Buchheim & David Meißner (eds.), SOMA: Körperkonzepte und körperliche Existenz in der antiken Philosophie und Literatur, Felix Meiner Verlag. pp. 159-182. 2016.
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43Aristotle Through Lenses from Bernard WilliamsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 23-35. 2016.This paper looks at a theme in ancient Greek ethics from perspectives developed by Bernard Williams.1 The ancient theme is the place of theoretical activity in human life, and I shall be referring to Aristotle. Williams is relevant through one strand in his scepticism about ‘morality, the peculiar institution’.2 His discussion suggests questions not merely about Aristotle but ones it would be interesting to put to Aristotle and see how he would or should respond to them.
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75The knowledge unacknowledged in the TheaetetusOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 51 87-117. 2016.ISBN: 9780198795797, 9780198795803 Edited by Victor Caston.
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142I—Sarah Broadie: Plato's Intelligible World?Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78 (1): 65-80. 2004.
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48Agency and Determinism in A Metaphysics for FreedomInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (6): 571-582. 2013.The paper spells out agency in a manner sympathetic to the approach in Helen Steward’s A Metaphysics for Freedom ; argues that agency so construed is compatible with determinism; then argues that this is a costly victory for compatibilism.
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3Nature, change, and agency in Aristotle's Physics: a philosophical studyOxford University Press. 1982.A powerful and appealing explanatory scheme which succeeds on the whole in drawing together a great many seemingly disparate elements in the Physics' into a neat unitary structure.' Canadian Philosophical Reviews.
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3Interpreting Aristotle's DirectionsIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 291--306. 1997.
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45Alternative World-HistoriesPhilosophical Papers 31 (2): 117-143. 2002.Abstract We act so as to make things better than they would have been but for the action; we are horrified by an uncontrollable catastrophe because it made things so much worse than they would have been without it. Such attitudes are reasonable only if it is reasonable to make the associated counterfactual conditional judgments. But making such judgments cannot be reasonable if one holds both (1) that this world is absolutely and uniquely actual (?absolute actualism?), and (2) that everything is…Read more
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Beginnings and Ends of Aristotelian DeliberationIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. 1997.
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109Theological sidelights from Plato's TimaeusAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (1): 1-17. 2008.Plato's account of the making of the world by a supreme divinity has often been felt to foreshadow the natural theology associated with orthodox western religion. This paper examines some significant ways (having more than merely antiquarian interest, it is hoped) in which the Timaeus scheme differs from more familiar orthodoxy.
Sarah Broadie
(1941 - 2021)
St Andrews, FIfe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland