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12On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of FormsPhilosophical Quarterly 44 (176): 379-382. 1994.
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145Unity, identity, and explanation in Aristotle's metaphysics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1994.This volume presents fourteen essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity and identity of substances, a topic that remains at the center of metaphysical enquiry. The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components. The central questions discussed are: What does Aristotle mean by "potentiality" and "actuality…Read more
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51Socrates as Intellectual Character BuilderAncient Philosophy Today 3 (2): 133-147. 2021.Our aim in this paper is to argue that Socrates is an intellectual character builder. We show that the Socratic Method, properly understood, is a tool for developing the intellectual character of students. It motivates agents towards the truth and helps them to develop the cognitive skills to gain knowledge of the truth. We further elucidate this proposal by comparing the Socratic Method, so understood, with the widely held contemporary view that the epistemic aim of education is the development…Read more
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4Extended and Embodied Values and IdeasIn Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.), Aristotle - Contemporary Perspectives on His Thought: On the 2400th Anniversary of Aristotle's Birth, De Gruyter. pp. 167-178. 2018.
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14Creativity through Lateral Thinking TechniquesProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 68 11-17. 2018.Creativity is an emerging field of research for philosophy. A diachronic cultural value and fundamental human ability, creativity poses a host of questions that challenge us both on a theoretical and practical level. In this paper we explore creativity through the use of problem-solving lateral thinking techniques, as part of the C2Learn European Community research program. Lateral thinking is defined and then classified into three distinct kinds: conceptual, diagrammatic and emotive. Each kind …Read more
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3Arguments and their Linguistic RealizationProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 38 19-32. 2018.The aim of this report is to explore, collect and classify the surface characteristics of texts which contain arguments, and in particular arguments pertaining to policy. Our interest is in the automated identification of publically presented arguments, rather than in their success or failure as arguments. We are therefore not dwelling on their validity or their soundness, but on the way they are typically expressed. Of special interest to us are the policy arguments which give reasons for and a…Read more
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11In Republic V, Plato makes the astonishing claim that knowledge is a different and independent power from belief, in the way, for example, that sight differs from hearing. I will argue that this is a fundamentally different conception of knowledge than the, also Platonic, conception of knowledge as 'true belief with an account'. I examine the reasons why Plato holds this position, and the ontology and epistemology which sustain its claims.
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178Relations as Plural-Predications in PlatoStudia Neoaristotelica 10 (1): 28-49. 2013.Plato was the first philosopher to discover the metaphysical phenomenon of plural-subjects and plural-predication; e.g. you and I are two, but neither you, nor I are two. I argue that Plato devised an ontology for plural-predication through his Theory of Forms, namely, plural-partaking in a Form. Furthermore, I argue that Plato used plural-partaking to offer an ontology of related individuals without reifying relations. My contention is that Plato’s theory of plural-relatives has evaded detectio…Read more
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24Commentary on GotthelfProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 4 (1): 140-147. 1988.
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83Substances and universals in Aristotle's MetaphysicsCornell University Press. 1997.The Theme A substance is a composite particular. If it is composed of further particulars, will the substance itself be one or many? ...
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32Mixing the ElementsIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 242-259. 2009.Forthcoming in the Blackwell Companion to Aristotle, 2008.
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2'Socratic Moral Realism: An Alternative JustificationOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 7 129-50. 1989.
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82Reciprocal Justice in Aristotle’s Nicomachean EthicsArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 77 (3): 248-262. 1995.
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1Mixed determinates : Pleasure, good, and truthIn Timothy Chappell (ed.), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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55Good, Reason and Objectivity in AristotleIn D. Koutras (ed.), Aristotelian Ethics and Its Influence, . pp. 292-305. 1996.In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle begins his investigation by exploring the nature of the end of all action. In the very first sentence of the work he says: "Every art and every enquiry and similarly every action and pursuit is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim". It is easy, says Aristotle, to find verbal agreement between people regarding that good because they all consider it to be happiness. Aristotle says: …Read more
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101The Logic of the Dilemma of Participation and of the Third Man ArgumentApeiron 22 (4). 1989.In this paper i offer a detailed analysis of the dilemma of participation (parmenides, 130e-131e), in which plato considers the consequences of participation in the whole, and in a part of, a form. This analysis explains, in contrast to existing interpretations of the argument, plato's claim that participation in parts of a form is incompatible with the uniqueness of the form, and his modal claim that becoming equal by possessing part of the equal is absurd. In the second part of the paper, i gi…Read more
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Substance and Universals in Aristotle's MetaphysicsPhilosophical Quarterly 47 (189): 536-539. 1997.
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