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1075Ignorance in Plato’s ProtagorasPhronesis 67 (3): 309-337. 2022.Ignorance is commonly assumed to be a lack of knowledge in Plato’s Socratic dialogues. I challenge that assumption. In the Protagoras, ignorance is conceived to be a substantive, structural psychic flaw—the soul’s domination by inferior elements that are by nature fit to be ruled. Ignorant people are characterized by both false beliefs about evaluative matters in specific situations and an enduring deception about their own psychic conditions. On my interpretation, akrasia, moral vices, and epis…Read more
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71Phantasia as Perception-Based Belief and the Epistemic Worry of PlatoSouthwest Philosophy Review 32 (1): 175-187. 2016.
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Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Virtue Ethics |
History of Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Chinese Philosophy |
Epistemology |
Social and Political Philosophy |