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2843EpicureanismIn Tom Angier, Chad Meister & Charles Taliaferro (eds.), The History of Evil in Antiquity: 2000 Bce to 450 Ce, Routledge. 2016.
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392In Defense of an Unpopular Interpretation of Ancient SkepticismHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 8. 2005.There is a set of texts in the history of ancient skepticism that have not been widely understood. Michael Frede has done much to set these texts in their proper context, but his work has not gotten the appreciation it deserves. Historians have tended to think that ancient skepticism in the Clitomachian-Pyrrhonian tradition is the suspension of belief on all matters and that Frede’s attempt to show otherwise is confused. This may turn out to be correct, but Frede’s interpretation, as I think it …Read more
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164Believing for Practical Reasons in Plato’s _Gorgias_Rhizomata 11 (1): 105-125. 2023.In Plato’s Gorgias, Socrates says to Callicles that “your love of the people, existing in your soul, stands against me, but if we closely examine these same matters often and in a better way, you will be persuaded” (513c7–d1). I argue for an interpretation that explains how Socrates understands Callicles’s love of the people to stand against him and why he believes examination often and in a better way will persuade Callicles.
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137Early Thinking about Likings and DislikingsAncient Philosophy Today 4 (2): 176-195. 2022.In Plato’s Protagoras, Socrates argues that ‘the many’ are confused about the experience they describe as ‘being overcome by pleasure’. They think the cause is ‘something other than ignorance’. He argues it follows from what they believe that the cause is ‘ignorance’ and ‘false belief’. I show that his argument depends on a premise he does not introduce but they should deny: that when someone is overcome by pleasure, the desire stems from a belief. To explain why Plato does not make Socrates int…Read more
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129On Feldman's theory of happinessUtilitas 21 (3): 393-400. 2009.Fred Feldman conceives of happiness in terms of the aggregation of attitudinal pleasure and displeasure, but he distinguishes intrinsic from extrinsic attitudinal pleasure and displeasure and excludes extrinsic attitudinal pleasure and displeasure from the aggregation that constitutes happiness. I argue that Feldman has not provided a strong reason for this exclusion
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115On Williamson’s Argument for (I i) in His Anti‐Luminosity ArgumentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2): 397-405. 2007.
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105An invalid argument for contextualismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2). 2004.Keith DeRose gives an invalid argument for contextualism in “Assertion, Knowledge, and Context.” In section 2.4, entitled “The Argument for Contextualism,” DeRose makes the following remarks. “The knowledge account of assertion provides a powerful argument for contextualism: If the standards for when one is in a position to warrantedly assert that P are the same as those that comprise a truth-condition for ‘I know P,’ then if the former vary with context, so do the latter. In short: The knowledg…Read more
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96Extrinsic attitudinal pleasurePhilosophical Studies 159 (2): 277-291. 2012.I argue for an alternative interpretation of some of the examples Fred Feldman uses to establish his theory of happiness. According to Feldman, the examples show that certain utterances of the form S is pleased/glad that P and S is displeased/sad that P should be interpreted as expressions of extrinsic attitudinal pleasure and displeasure and hence must be excluded from the aggregative sum of attitudinal pleasure and displeasure that constitutes happiness. I develop a new interpretation of Feldm…Read more
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72Against Weatherson on How to Frame a Decision ProblemJournal of Philosophical Research 41 69-72. 2016.
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52Induction and Experience In Metaphysics 1.1Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 541-552. 2006.IN POSTERIOR ANALYTICS 2.19 AND METAPHYSICS 1.1, Aristotle describes the natural process by which man acquires reason and the knowledge that belongs to reason. He says that from perception comes memory, from memory comes experience, and from experience comes reason and the knowledge that belongs to reason. This is the sequence in induction, and it is common to the description in both passages. In the Metaphysics, however, unlike in the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle goes on to explain how the ex…Read more
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51Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (3): 659-660. 1999.Few recent events in the world of Platonic scholarship have caused more excitement than the publication of the initial volumes of R. E. Allen’s The Dialogues of Plato. Allen is on track to become the first scholar since Benjamin Jowett in the nineteenth century to produce a translation, with commentary, of all of Plato’s works. This feat is all the more impressive because Allen’s translations and comments thus far have been superb.
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47Reading Plato’s Theaetetus, by Timothy Chappell (review)Ancient Philosophy 27 (2): 418-423. 2007.
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43Kahn, Charles H. Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (1): 172-173. 1999.
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38Beversluis, John. Cross-Examining Socrates. A Defense of the Interlocutors in Platos Early Dialogues (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (3): 644-645. 2001.
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38Against Weatherson on How to Frame a Decision Problem in advanceJournal of Philosophical Research. forthcoming.
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32Bobzien, Susanne. Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (4): 919-920. 2000.
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32A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) (review)Ancient Philosophy 29 (1): 229-232. 2009.
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32Cleary, John J., and Gary M. Gurtler. Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XIII, 1997 (review)Review of Metaphysics 53 (3): 686-687. 2000.
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Arizona State UniversityPhilosophy - School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious StudiesAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |