Hellenistic Philosophy

Prince and Principle: The Philosophy of Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus

by Martine Cuypers

in Callimachus II, eds. M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker (Groningen 2004), 95-115

Review of 'Philosophy as Therapeia' edited by Jonardon Ganeri & Clare Carlisle

by Konrad Banicki

published in 'Philosophy in Review', 2012, 32(1).

Astrology: The Science of Heavenly Signs

by Glen M. Cooper

Chapter in: Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, ed. Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough

Takes a unique approach by trying to understand astrology from the inside out. Takes a unique approach by trying to understand astrology from the inside out.

El escepticismo de Sexto Empírico y su neutralización dialógica

by Daniel Vazquez

Tesis de maestría, UNAM, México 2010. Ganadora del Premio Norman Sverdlin 2009-2010 (http://www.filos.unam.mx/premiosverdlin/premiados.php).

MPhil dissertation, UNAM (National University Mexico), Mexico. Awarded the Norman Sverdlin best MPhil dissertation 2009-2010 (http://www.filos.unam.mx/premiosverdlin/premiados.php).

My paper 'Reason in Check: the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus' (Hermathena 186, 2009) is an early and brief version of the main arguments.

El tema de esta investigación es el escepticismo de Sexto Empírico, en específico sobre su primer libro de los Esbozos... more El tema de esta investigación es el escepticismo de Sexto Empírico, en específico sobre su primer libro de los Esbozos pirrónicos. La problemática principal puede expresarse en la pregunta: ¿Qué se puede responder ante las dificultades que plantea Sexto? Para contestar defenderé dos tesis. Primero, que este tipo de escepticismo es irresoluble. Segundo, que, aunque no hay solución posible, existe una forma general de contestar sin contradecirse, caer en una recurrencia al infinito o convertirse en escéptico.

Reason in check: the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus

by Daniel Vazquez

Hermathena, no. 186 (2009), 43 -57.

Many philosophers have challenged the problem of skepticism. I
argue that none of them successfully dispute the... more Many philosophers have challenged the problem of skepticism. I
argue that none of them successfully dispute the system established by Sextus Empiricus. But not just that; my main thesis is that this kind of skepticism is unsolvable. I maintain that there are two fundamental strategies in Sextus' 'Outlines of Phyrrhonism'. One of them is that the basic description of skepticism has a paradoxical character. The other focuses on the Five Modes of Agrippa that comprise a system of dialectical moves for suspending judgment. The modes have, as a system, the capacity to reposition in any circumstance, so it is impossible to justify to the skeptic why he needs to abandon his skepticism.

I explain, in brief, why the most important objections to skepticism do not solve this challenge. In opposition to common view, I argue that phyrrhonism is practicable, coherent and consistent. Although there is no possible solution to skepticism, there is at least a general way to answer it without contradiction, infinite regress or becoming a skeptic.

Interpretation of Heraclitus in Hellenistic Philsophy

by Matthew Colvin

“Eclecticism as Seneca's Heritage: Evil and the Cosmic Cycle in Justus Lipsius,” in Justus Lipsius and Natural Philosophy, ed. Hiro Hirai and Jan Papy (Brussels: Royal Academy of Belgium, forthcoming), 97–106.

by Kuni Sakamoto

The Relation Between Epicurean Physics and Law: A Hegelian Reading

by Byron Kaldis

IVR, European Journal of Law and Philosophy, II,  pp 123-130.

« Poseidonios d’Apamée et les Juifs », Journal for the Study of Judaism 34/2, 2003, p. 160-198.

by Katell Berthelot

Doubt and Divinity: Cicero's Influence on Hume's Religious Skepticism

by Peter Fosl

Hume Studies 20 (April 1994): 103-20.

Explores the extent to which Hume drew on the work of Cicero in developing his philosophy of religion. Explores the extent to which Hume drew on the work of Cicero in developing his philosophy of religion.

Consciousness as a Topic of Investigation in Western Thought

by Anderson Weekes

In: Michel Weber & Anderson Weekes (eds.), Process Approaches to Consciousness in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind (New York: SUNY Press, ISBN 978-1-4384-2941-0 & ISBN 978-1-4384-2940-3), 2009, pp. 73-135.
English

Terms for consciousness, used with a cognitive meaning, emerged as count nouns in the 17th century. This... more Terms for consciousness, used with a cognitive meaning, emerged as count nouns in the 17th century. This transformation repeats an evolution that had taken place in late antiquity, when related vocabulary, used in the sense of conscience, went from being mass nouns designating states to count nouns designating faculties possessed by every individual. The reified concept of consciousness resulted from the rejection of the Scholastic-Aristotelian theory of mind according to which the mind is not a countable thing, but a pure potentiality. This rejection was motivated by an acute sense of the mind’s fallible subjectivity. While conditioned by recent historical events, the 17th century’s pervasive sense of subjectivity also reveals a heavy debt to Hellenistic philosophy, which had been recently rediscovered. But whereas Hellenistic thought, mistrustful of theoria, only reifies conscience, early modern thinking, more mistrustful of praxis and seeking its grounding in theoria, goes a step further and reifies consciousness.

Literary Politics and the Euripidean Vita

by Johanna Hanink

Cambridge Classical Journal (2008), 54: 115-135

Review of Janko (R.), Philodemus On Poetry, Oxford 2000: "Classical Review" 52,2 (2002), pp. 263-267

by Silvia Barbantani

‘Ancient Philosophy of Language’ (co-authored with E. V. Di Lascio), in D. G. Fara, G. Russell (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, Routledge, 2012, 811-826.

by Luca Castagnoli

Epicureans on kingship

by Sean McConnell

Cambridge Classical Journal (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society) 56 (2010): pp. 178-198.
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A Critical Problem with the Corporeality of the Stoic Principles

by Jason Rheins

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CURRENTLY UNDERGOING A MAJOR OVERHAUL!

The Principles of the Stoics, God and Matter, were considered by... more CURRENTLY UNDERGOING A MAJOR OVERHAUL!

The Principles of the Stoics, God and Matter, were considered by them to be bodies. The textual evidence for this cannot be doubted. However, this position makes their account of the incorporeality of space and void, indeed their distinction between body and space itself, incoherent.

‘Skepticism’, in M. Gagarin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

by Luca Castagnoli

‘How Dialectical Was Stoic Dialectic?’, in A. Nightingale, D. Sedley (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 153-179.

by Luca Castagnoli

Philosophy as a Therapy of Psyche: From the Hellenistic Schools to Philosophical Counselling

by Konrad Banicki

It is an early draft of my PhD thesis. Its final version is available on request (konrad.banicki@uj.edu.pl)