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8Peirce's Doctrine of Signs: Theory, Applications, and Connections (edited book)De Gruyter Mouton. 1996.
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4Significance in PerformanceProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 47 153-159. 2018.It was the integration of mythos, ethos and logos that determined the unity of Hellenic culture. The mythos of ways of being in the world gave determination to the ethos of ways of acting in community and the logos of accounting for what went on in the world. The primary expressions of this integration were the divine enlightenments of the poesis of interpretation which were acted out in public performance. The disintegration came with the pluralization of cultures in the Hellenistic period, whe…Read more
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9The Dynamics og DunamisReview of Metaphysics 71 (3). 2017.The important conceptual innovation of Metaphysics 9 is not in an extension of dunamis into the ontological realm, but in establishing energeia as the primary sense of the unit of being. The career of dunamis moves from principles of contrariety requiring a hypokeimenon ; through its role in the concept of natural motion ; to different roles for active and passive ; to correlations of capacity/fulfillment with body/soul, matter/form, and inner/outer potentialities. These developments lay bases f…Read more
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Intentions and Oppositions: An Organon for Axiological InquiryDissertation, Emory University. 1965.
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10Reconstructing Deconstruction for a Prospectival RealismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 13 (3). 1996.
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37Dispositions and reductionism in psychologyJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 5 (October): 129-44. 1975.1) reductionism in psychology is not a single move regarding a single conceptual issue, but is rather a complex of concerns with a network of conceptually interrelated issues. 2) reductionistic moves tend to explicitly rely upon or implicitly presuppose the use of dispositional terms. 3) dispositional terms will not serve to effect reductionistic programs because they themselves require many of the features that those programs require excising. 4) if dispositionals are not themselves logically t…Read more
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26The Bastard Book Of Aristotle's PhysicsClassical Quarterly 64 (1): 58-74. 2014.Philosophers who would do history of philosophy must also occasionally do some philology. The meaning of the text interacts with the language in which it is spoken, and it is informed by it. One need not be a Whorfean to appreciate that there is no text without contexts, and one of the most important of these contexts is the language itself. To what extent the philologist must also become a palaeographer is a question seldom raised even among those who call themselves philologists. Taking our te…Read more
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40Daniel W. Graham, "Aristotle's Two Systems" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (3): 439. 1990.
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49A Third Dogma of EmpiricismThe Monist 49 (2): 304-318. 1965.Much discussion has been accorded in recent years to what Willard Quine has dubbed “two dogmas of empiricism”
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43Self-movers and unmoved movers in Aristotle's Physics VIIClassical Quarterly 45 (02): 389-. 1995.Robert Wardy's recent The Chain of Change has again brought to the fore the question of the role of Physics VII in the development of Aristotle's conception of motion. Wardy reads VII in conjunction with VIII, and argues that the former is the precursor of the latter in the development of the conception of a cosmic unmoved mover. He also claims that this account is the only one that can save us from a version of self-motion made unacceptable by Aristotle's hylomorphic account developed elsewhere…Read more
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40Demea’s DilemmasBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (3). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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20Self-movers and unmoved movers in Aristotle's Physics VIIClassical Quarterly 45 (2): 389-406. 1995.Robert Wardy's recent The Chain of Change has again brought to the fore the question of the role of Physics VII in the development of Aristotle's conception of motion. Wardy reads VII in conjunction with VIII, and argues that the former is the precursor of the latter in the development of the conception of a cosmic unmoved mover. He also claims that this account is the only one that can save us from a version of self-motion made unacceptable by Aristotle's hylomorphic account developed elsewhere…Read more
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62On the relations of soul to body in Plato and AristotleJournal of the History of Philosophy 14 (4): 391-404. 1976.
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47Deep StructureThe Monist 57 (3): 430-442. 1973.I want to deal here with the question, “What is deep structure?” But before I can begin, it seems necessary to give exposition to the question itself. As it stands, it is not a single question, but a number of different questions, each leading into quite different sorts of inquiry. To get to the question that I want to deal with, some of the others need at least passing consideration. The answers offered to these may have some bearing upon the answers offered to my own.
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28A Christian Understanding of DivorceJournal of Religious Ethics 7 (1). 1979.Christian divorce is construed as letting go of past sin in repentance and seeking new life in faithfulness and forgiveness; this painful crisis is seen as a confrontation with God's judgment and as an opening up to God's grace; one is urged to maintain an awareness of temptations to continue in sin and of opportunities for reconciliation and cooperation. This view is developed through an analysis of the concepts of covenant, infidelity and adultery, as well as a comparison of civil, contractual…Read more
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42The analogical argument for knowledge of other minds reconsideredAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 11 (1): 63-69. 1974.
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12Deep StructureThe Monist 57 (3): 430-442. 1973.I want to deal here with the question, “What is deep structure?” But before I can begin, it seems necessary to give exposition to the question itself. As it stands, it is not a single question, but a number of different questions, each leading into quite different sorts of inquiry. To get to the question that I want to deal with, some of the others need at least passing consideration. The answers offered to these may have some bearing upon the answers offered to my own.
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27Abraham Edel, "Aristotle and His Philosophy" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (4): 548. 1986.