Articles and Reviews

Reprints of most of my writings are available by clicking on the links below. There are a few items listed on my bibliography for which electronic copies do not exist. In those cases you will have to go to the original sources.

Articles

• Accidental Beings in Aristotle’s Ontology, in Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Honor of David Keyt, ed. by G. Anagnostopoulos and F. D. Miller, Jr. (Dordrecht: Springer, 2013), 231-242.
• Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione, in C. Shields (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Aristotle. ed. by C. Shields (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 205-226.
• Aristotle’s Substance, in J. G. Hernandez (ed.), Themes in Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 37.
• Substances, in G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle. Oxford: Blackwell (2009), 192-212.
• Kooky Objects Revisited: Aristotle’s Ontology, Metaphilosophy 39 (2008), 3-19.
• Analyzing Plato’s Arguments: Plato and Platonism (with David Keyt), in Methods of Interpreting Plato and his Dialogues, ed. by J. Klagge and N. Smith (Oxford University Press, 1992), 173-200.
• Hylomorphism and Functionalism, in Essays on Aristotle’s De Anima, ed. by M. Nussbaum and A. Rorty (Oxford University Press, 1992), 57-73.
• Aristotle on the Principle of Non-Contradiction, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986), 359-370.
• Aristotle and Individuation, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, suppl. vol. 10 (1984), 41-65.
• Individual and Essence in Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Paideia (1978), 75-85.
• Essentialism in Aristotle, Review of Metaphysics 31 (1978), 387-405.
• Plato’s Method of Division, in Patterns in Plato’s Thought, J.M.E. Moravcsik (ed.). Dordrecht: Reidel (1973), 181-191
• The Logic of the Third Man, Philosophical Review 80 (1971), 448-475.
• Socrates on the Definition of Piety: Euthyphro 10A-11B, Journal of the History of Philosophy 9 (1971), 1-13; reprinted with minor alterations in The Philosophy of Socrates, ed. by G. Vlastos (Garden City: Doubleday, 1971), 158-176. Reprinted in Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, ed. by R. Kamtekar (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 35-48.
• The One and the Many (with Gareth Matthews), Review of Metaphysics 21 (1968), 630-655.
• Wants and Lacks (with Gareth Matthews), Journal of Philosophy 64 (1967), 455-456.

Reviews

• Review of Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle’s Metaphysics, by C.D.C. Reeve (2002)
• Review of Primary Ousia, by Michael Loux (1993)
• Review of Substance and Essence in Aristotle, by Charlotte Witt (1992)
• Review of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Books Zeta, Eta, Theta, and Iota, by Montgomery Furth (1988)
• Review of Divine Substance, by Christopher Stead (1982)
• Review of Socrates, Philosophy in Plato’s Early Dialogues, by Gerasimos Santas (1981)
• Review of The Concept of Pleasure, by David L. Perry (1969)

Unpublished Work

• The Psychology of Justice in Plato: a Response to Cooper (1977).
• Aristotle’s Alternative to Referential Opacity. (1994) An earlier draft of a paper eventually published (2008)as Kooky Objects Revisited: Aristotle’s Ontology

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