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    Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality
    with Myles Burnyeat, Richard Gaskin, Joël Biard, Peter Simons, Richard Sorabji, Christof Rapp, Hermann Weidemann, Dorothea Frede, Claude Panaccio, Elizabeth Karger, Robert Pasnau, and Cyrille Michon
    Brill. 2001.
    This volume, including sixteen contributions, analyses ancient and medieval theories of intentionality in various contexts: perception, imagination, and intellectual thinking. It sheds new light on classical theories and examines neglected sources, both Greek and Latin
  •  8
    Aristotle's Psychology
    In Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Soul–Body Relation Perception Phantasia Thought Bibliography.
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    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 58 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2020.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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    Theophrastus on Perceiving
    Rhizomata 7 (2): 188-225. 2020.
    Many fragments from Theophrastus on perception are preserved by the late Neoplatonist, Priscian of Lydia. After preliminary source criticism concerning how to identify the fragments, I turn to Theophrastus’ discussion of perceiving and perceptual awareness. While he clearly rejects literalism, he also does not embrace “spiritualism”: he argues instead that we receive the defining proportions of perceptible qualities in the sense organ, though in different contraries than in the perceptible (ther…Read more
  • Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 57 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2020.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
  • Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 56 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2019.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
  •  2
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 55 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
  •  2
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 54 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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    Recent interpreters portray Aristotle as a Protagorean antirealist, who thinks that colors and other perceptibles do not actually exist apart from being perceived. Against this, I defend a more traditional interpretation: colors exist independently of perception, to which they are explanatorily prior, as causal powers that produce perceptions of themselves. They are not to be identified with mere dispositions to affect perceivers, or with grounds distinct from these qualities, picked out by thei…Read more
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    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 53 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2017.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
  •  1
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 52 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2017.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
  •  2
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 51 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2016.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
  •  2
    Aristotle on Intentionality
    Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1992.
    There is widespread agreement today that the problem of intentionality--roughly, the problem of how mental states can be "directed at an object" or have content--constitutes one of the central and abiding difficulties in the philosophy of mind. What is not widely recognized is that the ancient Greeks had a great deal to say about the topic. Contemporary discussions most often begin with the work of the nineteenth century philosopher, Franz Brentano; but Brentano himself did not regard his idea a…Read more
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    Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos (edited book)
    with Alexander P. D. Mourelatos and Daniel W. Graham
    Ashgate. 2002.
    This book presents some of the most recent trends and developments in Presocratic scholarship. A wide range of topics are covered - from the metaphysical to the moral to the methodological - as well as a broad a range of authors: from recognized figures such as Heraclitus and Parmenides to Sophistic thinkers whose place has traditionally been marginalized, such as Gorgias and the author of the Dissoi Logoi. Several of the pieces are concerned with the later reception and influence of the Presocr…Read more
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    Colloquium 5
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 16 (1): 135-175. 2000.
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    Aristotle and the Problem of Intentionality
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (2): 249-298. 1998.
    Aristotle not only fonnulates the problem of intentionality explicitly, he makes a solution to it a requirement for any adequate theory of mind. His own solution, however, is not to be found in his theory of sensation, as Brentano and others have thought. In fact, it is precisely because Aristotle regards this theory as inadequate that he goes on to argue for a distinct new ability he calls “phantasia.” The theory of content he develops on this basis (unlike Brentano’s) is profoundly naturalisti…Read more
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    Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos
    Philosophical Quarterly 55 (219): 356-358. 2005.
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    Epiphenomenalisms, ancient and modern
    Philosophical Review 106 (3): 309-363. 1997.
    This debate, I shall argue, has everything to do with Aristotle. Aristotle raises the charge of epiphenomenalism himself against a theory that seems to have close affinities to his own, and he offers what has the makings of an emergentist response. This leads to controversy within his own school. We find opponents ranged on both sides, starting with his own pupils, several of whom are stout defenders of epiphenomenalism, and culminating in the developed emergentism of later commentators. Aristot…Read more
  •  48
    Aristotle on the Relation of the Intellect to the Body: Commentary on Broadie
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 12 (1): 177-192. 1996.
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    Aristotle's Argument for Why the Understanding is not Compounded with the Body'
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 16 135-75. 2000.
  • Review of Gail Fine: On Ideas (review)
    Mind 104 162-166. 1995.
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    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 50 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 2016.
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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    Comment on Amie Thomasson's "self-awareness and self-knowledge"
    PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 12. 2006.
    In this paper, I raise an objection to Thomasson
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    Aristotle and the problem of intentionality
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (2): 249-298. 1998.
    Aristotle not only formulates the problem of intentionality explicitly, he makes a solution to it a requirement for any adequate theory of mind. His own solution, however, is not to be found in his theory of sensation, as Brentano and others have thought. In fact, it is precisely because Aristotle regards this theory as inadequate that he goes on to argue for a distinct new ability he calls "phantasia." The theory of content he develops on this basis (unlike Brentano's) is profoundly naturalisti…Read more