• Comments on LeGrant, “The Democritean Descent
    Southwest Philosophy Review 39 (2): 31-34. 2023.
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    The general account of pleasure in Plato's Philebus
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (4): 495-513. 1996.
    The General Account of Pleasure in Plato's Philebus THOMAS M. TUOZZO 1. INTRODUCTION DOES PLATO IN THE Philebus present a single general account of pleasure, applicable to all of the kinds of pleasure he discusses in that dialogue? Gosling and Taylor think not;' Dorothea Frede has recently reasserted a version of the contrary, traditional view. 2 The traditional view, I shall argue in this essay, is correct: the Philebus does contain a general account of pleasure applicable to all pleasures. Non…Read more
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    Conceptualized and unconceptualized desire in Aristotle
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4): 525-549. 1994.
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    What's Wrong with These Cities? The Social Dimension of sophrosune in Plato's Charmides
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (3): 321-350. 2001.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:What's Wrong with These Cities?The Social Dimension of sophrosune in Plato's CharmidesThomas M. TuozzoThe Dramatic Setting and the dramatis personae of the Charmides strongly evoke the world of late fifth-century Athenian politics. The discussion Socrates narrates takes place the day after his return from a battle at Potidaea at the very start of the Peloponnesian War;1 his two main interlocutors in that discussion, Critias and Charm…Read more
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    The fifth “deduction” in Plato’s Parmenides concerns the consequences that follow for a one from the hypothesis that it is not. I argue that the subject of this hypothesis is, effectively, any Form, considered just insofar as it is one Form. The hypothesis, I further argue, does not concern any essential aspect of a Form, but rather posits its contingent non-instantation. The motion this deduction attributes to its one is a special type of motion: motion into and out of instantiation.
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    Rethinking the Division of Pleasure in Plato’s Philebus
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 2 (2): 325-329. 2018.
    In the Philebus Socrates presents his division of the kinds of pleasures and pains to an interlocutor who confesses himself incapable of employing the dialectical method of division that this task ideally requires and is committed to defending a hedonist theory of value. These two features of his interlocutor affect the way in which Socrates presents his accounts of pleasure and pain. The philosophical reader needs to rethink the accounts of pleasure and pain to produce an account that is free f…Read more
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    'Appearing Equal' at Phaedo 74 B 4-C 6: an Epistemic Interpretation
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54. 2018.
    The argument at Phaedo 74 B 4‐C 6 that the equal itself is ‘something different from’ sets of physical equals depends on Leibniz's Law: there is a property that perceptible equals have that the equal itself does not have. What I call the ‘epistemic interpretation’ holds that the property is an epistemic one: having appeared unequal. The ‘ontological interpretation’ holds that the property is not epistemic, but simply the property of being unequal. The most natural reading of the text favours the…Read more
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    Why are there two definitions of shape in Plato’s Meno?
    Southwest Philosophy Review 19 (1): 161-168. 2003.
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    Review: Aristotle's Ethics Retranslated (review)
    Philosophical Quarterly 54 (215). 2004.
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    Colloquium 5
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 7 (1): 182-191. 1991.
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    What's wrong with these cities? The social dimension of
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (3): 321-350. 2001.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:What's Wrong with These Cities?The Social Dimension of sophrosune in Plato's CharmidesThomas M. TuozzoThe Dramatic Setting and the dramatis personae of the Charmides strongly evoke the world of late fifth-century Athenian politics. The discussion Socrates narrates takes place the day after his return from a battle at Potidaea at the very start of the Peloponnesian War;1 his two main interlocutors in that discussion, Critias and Charm…Read more
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    This book argues that Plato's Charmides presents a unitary but incomplete argument intended to lead its readers to substantive philosophical insights.
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    Aristotle as Modern Moral Philosopher (review)
    Phronesis 42 (3). 1997.
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    Plato (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 15 (2): 613-619. 1995.
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    Aristotle's ethics retranslated (review)
    Philosophical Quarterly 54 (215). 2004.
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    The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies (review)
    Ancient Philosophy 29 (1): 203-208. 2009.
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    How Dynamic Is Aristotle’s Efficient Cause?
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2): 447-464. 2011.
    Aristotle says that arts such as medicine, the soul, and the heavenly Unmoved Movers are all efficient causes. Because the arts do not seem to fit the model of an efficient cause that does something, scholars have posited two classes of efficient cause, “energetic” and “non-energetic” ones, and have classified the arts, the soul, and the Unmoved Movers as non-energetic. I argue that, once the way an Aristotelian efficient cause produces motion is properly understand, this distinction is not need…Read more
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