Here’s a relatively recent piece from David Wiggins of course invoking the historical figure he is most familiar with — Aristotle: One who agrees to speak about the ethical meaning of work might be expected to say something about its religious significance. Given limitations of time and competence, let me simply offer two remarkable utterances from the…
This past weekend at a conference on the philosophy of philanthropy held in Indianapolis, I had the deep privilege and pleasure to meet up again with Richard Gunderman. I originally met Richard at a conference in Portsmouth, NH exactly three years ago and was mesmerised by his conference talk and his attentive kindness. Knowing that…
It’s been ten years since the release of David Wiggins’ Sameness and Substance Renewed. I notice that it has gone into a second edition, which is good news. This book must rate as one of my favourite works and I believe is somewhat neglected (I originally read S&S and was impressed that reading S&SR didn’t…
Leiter reports on the passing of Julius Moravcsik. I recall Moravcsik’s work on Aristotle’s metaphysics as being a model of clarity and being informed by recent philosophy of mind. A top-draw philosopher who published because he had something to say; not because he liked the “sound of his own voice”. Click here for a bio-sketch. Julius…
A rather belated plug for this book. The follow up is currently being edited.
I have yet to insert some Greek terminology denoted as [Greek] and the full citation details. ============================== There is no interpretative consensus among Aristotelian scholars on the methodological principles Aristotle employed in arriving at his list of categories nor indeed how the categories themselves are related to these “classes” of entities. Are they primarily classes (a…
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