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Books:

  • Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity. Princeton University Press, 1989. Paperback, 1991. xi + 284 pp.
  • Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton. Co-edited with James G. Lennox. Princeton University Press, 1994. xxi + 367 pp.
  • Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Co-edited with Theodore Scaltsas and David Charles. Oxford University Press, 1994. x + 381 pp.
  • Plato: Parmenides. Introduction (123 pp.) and Translation (co-translator: Paul Ryan). Hackett Publishing Company, 1996. vii + 175 pp. Translation reprinted in Plato, Complete Works, John M. Cooper (ed.). (Hackett, 1997). Excerpt of translation reprinted in Readings in Ancient Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle, S. M. Cohen, P. Curd, and C.D.C. Reeve (eds.). (Hackett, 1994).
  • A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Co-edited with Pierre Pellegrin. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series. Oxford / Boston: Blackwell, 2006.
  • Articles:

  • "Aristotle's Theory of Causal Action in Physics III.3," Phronesis 25 (1980), 129-47.
  • "Sorabji and Aristotle Against Determinism," Ancient Philosophy 2 (1982), 122-33.
  • "Aristotle on the Individuation of Changes," Ancient Philosophy 4 (1984), 9-22.
  • "Matter and Flux in Plato's Timaeus," Phronesis 32 (1987), 34-53.
  • "Aristotle on Matters of Life and Death," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 4 (1989). 187-205.
  • "Aristotle on Self-Motion," in Essays on Aristotle's Physics. Lindsay Judson (ed.). Oxford University Press, 1991. 243-65. Reprinted in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, M. L. Gill and J. G. Lennox (eds.). Princeton University Press, 1994. 15-34.
  • "Matter Against Substance," Synthese 96 (1993), 1-19.
  • "Commentary on Charles," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 7 (1993). 262-68.
  • "Individuals and Individuation in Aristotle," in Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics. T. Scaltsas, D. Charles, and M. L. Gill (eds.). Oxford Clarendon Press, 1994. 55-71.
  • "Aristotle on Substance and Predication." Ancient Philosophy 15 (1995). 510-20.
  • "Perceptible Substances in Metaphysics H.1-5," in Aristoteles, Die Substanzbücher der Metaphysik. Christof Rapp (ed.). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1996. 209-28.
  • "Classical Theories of Matter," in The Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Donald J. Zeyl (ed.). Greenwood Press, 1997. 322-25.
  • "Material Necessity and Meteorology IV.12," in Aristotelische Biologie: Intentionen, Methoden, Ergebnisse. Wolfgang Kullmann and Sabine Föllinger (eds.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. 145-61.
  • "Commentary on Lewis," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 15 (2000). 129-36.
  • "Aristotle's Attack on Universals." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19 (2001). 235-59.
  • "Plato on Being a Not-Being: The Text of Parmenides 162A-B," in Noctes Atticae, [Festschrift for Jørgen Mejer.] Bettina Amden, Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, Adam Schwartz, and Christian Gorm Tortzen (eds.). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002. 121-29.
  • "Plato's Phaedrus and the Method of Hippocrates." The Modern Schoolman 80 (2003). 295-314.
  • "Aristotle's Distinction between Change and Activity." Axiomathes (2003) 17-36. Also in Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic Categories. Johanna Seibt (ed.). Kluwer, 2003. 3-22.
  • "Why Does Theaetetus' Final Definition of Knowledge Fail?" in Ideal and Culture of Knowledge in Plato. W. Detel, A. Becker, and P. Scholz (eds.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2003, 159-73.
  • "The Unity of Substances in Metaphysics H.6." (in Portuguese). Cadernos de Histórica e Filosofia 3, 13 (2003). 177-203. To be published in English in R. Bolton and J. G. Lennox (eds.), Nature, Being, and Life [Festschrift for Allan Gotthelf].
  • "Plato's First Principles." In Aristotle's Criticisms of Plato: The Metaphysical Question. Apostolos Pierris (ed.). Patras, Greece: Institute for Philosophical Research, 2004. 155-76.
  • "Myles Burnyeat's Map of Metaphysics Zeta." Critical Notice, Philosophy Quarterly 55 (2005), 117-24.
  • "Aristotle’s Metaphysics Reconsidered." Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (2005), 223-51.
  • "Method and Metaphysics in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman." In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.). 2005.
  • "First Philosophy in Aristotle." In A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. M.L. Gill & P. Pellegrin (eds.). Oxford / Boston: Blackwell, 2006. 347-73.
  • "Models in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman." Journal of the International Plato Society 6 (2006).
  • "Problems for Forms." In A Companion to Plato. Hugh H. Benson (ed.). Oxford / Boston: Blackwell, 2006.
  • "Commentary on Modrak." Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 22 (2007), 136 - 43.
  • "Division and Definition in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman." In Definition in Greek Philosophy. David Charles (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming.
  • "Form-Matter Predication in Metaphysics Θ.7." In Aspects de la puissance: Platon / Aristote. M. Crubelier, A. Jaulin, D. Lefebvre & P. M. Morel (eds.). Grenoble: J. Millon, forthcoming.
  • "The Theory of the Elements on De Caelo III and IV." In A Companion to Aristotle's Cosmology: Collected Papers on De Caelo. Alan C Bowen and Christian Wildberg (eds.) Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
  • Book Reviews:

  • Aristotle's Physics. Books III and IV. Translated with Notes by Edward Hussey. Philosophical Review 94 (1985), 270-73.
  • Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology. Edited by Allan Gotthelf and James G. Lennox. Isis 79 (1988), 721-22.
  • Aristoteles, Metaphysik Z. By Michael Frede and Günther Patzig. Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1990), 602-5.
  • Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of Metaphysics VII-IX. By Charlotte Witt. Classical World 84 (1991), 331-332.
  • Aristotle's Two Systems. By Daniel Graham. Review of Metaphysics 46 (1993), 616-17.
  • Substance, Form and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics. By Montgomery Furth. Noûs 27 (1993), 89-91.
  • Primary Ousia: An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H. By Michael J. Loux. Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), 106-8.
  • Substance and Separation in Aristotle. By Lynne Spellman. Philosophical Books 39 (1998), 43-45.
  • The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics: Place and the Elements. By Helen Lang. British Journal for Philosophy of Science 51 (2000), 549-57.
  • Plato's Reception of Parmenides. By John A. Palmer. Mind 110 (2001), 806-10.
  • Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta. By Michael Wedin. Mind, 112 (2003), 583-86.
  • "A More Socratic Meno." Review of Virtue in the Cave. By Roslyn Weiss. Classical Review (2003), 299-301.
  • Aristotle and the Metaphysics . By Vasilis Politis. Mind 114 (2005), 760-64.
  • Research in progress:

  • Aristotle's Meteorology. Book IV. (Aristotle's chemical treatise.) Translation, Introduction, and Notes, with James G. Lennox. Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford University Press. (Under contract.)
  • Plato's Missing Dialogue. A book on Plato's later epistemology and method.

     



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