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Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Volume 48 by Brad Inwood

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'Oxford stories in historic Philosophy' is a quantity of unique articles on all points of historical philosophy. The articles can be of considerable size, and contain serious notices of significant books.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science,  (), –. , ‘The Value of Understanding’, Philosophy Compass,  (), –. , ‘Understanding’, in D. Pritchard and S. ), The Routledge Companion to Epistemology (London, ), –. ), Virtue Scientia, forthcoming. , The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements (; repr. New York, ). , ‘Moral Testimony and Moral Epistemology’ [‘Testimony’], Ethics,  (), –. , The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding [Understanding] (Cambridge, ).

F. Ferrari, ‘Akrasia as Neurosis in Plato’s Protagoras’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy,  (), –; Carone, ‘Akrasia’; R. Weiss, The Socratic Paradox and its Enemies (Chicago, ), ch. ; J. Moss, ‘Pleasure and Illusion in Plato’ [‘Pleasure’], Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,  (), – at –; and J. Moss, ‘Appearances and Calculations: Plato’s Division of the Soul’ [‘Calculations’], Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy,  (), – at –; possibly also A.

Over-generation The under-generation problem parallels an over-generation  Carone, ‘Akrasia’, . This, I take it, is supposed to be a real, rather than nominal, definition.  In fact, Carone herself argues for something stronger: that in the Republic Socrates explicitly endorses the earlier Socratic position. See Carone, ‘Akrasia’, –.  R. W. Jordan, Plato’s Argument for Forms, Cambridge Philological Society, suppl.  (Cambridge, ), –, and R. Robinson, ‘Plato’s Separation of Reason from Desire’, Phronesis,  (), – at , raise the under-generation objection independently of revisionist considerations, although the problem is still based on the ambiguity of the claim ‘thirst is the desire for drink’.

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