This new addition to a classic series offers original articles on specific areas in ancient philosophy, including contributions from Gabriela Roxana Carone, Christopher Gill, and Richard Tierney. The volume includes many articles of substantial length, along with critical notices of major books.
1. Psychic Pregnancy and Platonic Epistemology,
Frisbee C. C. Sheffield2. Dramatic Dialectic in
RepublicBook 1,
Mark Gifford3.
Akrasiain the
Republic: Does Plato Change his Mind?,
Gabriela Roxana Carone4. Aristotle's Scientific Demonstrations as Expositions of Essence,
Richard Tierney5. Holistic Methods in Aristotle's Cosmology,
Mohan Matthen6. The Functions of the Concept of
Physisin Aristotle's
Metaphysics,
Thomas Buchheim7. Aristotle's Attack on Universals,
Mary Louise Gill8. Aristotle's Basic and Non-basic Virtues,
Stephen M. Gardiner9. Speaking Up for Plato's Interlocutors: A Discussion of J. Beversluis,
Cross-examining Socrates: A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato's Early Dialogues,
Christopher Gill Standard reading among specialists in ancient philosophy --Brad Inwood,
Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewDavid Sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.