Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXVII (2011)

by Gary Gurtler (Editor), William Wians (Editor)

Overview

This volume, the twenty-seventh year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2010-11. The paper topics include: number in Philolaus, the injustice of philosophers in Republic VII, Socrates' and Plato's political art in the Gorgias, Aristotle's distinction between two types of knowledge in the Ethics, medical analogies and aporias in Aristotle's account of natural science, place in Aristotle's Physics, and Plotinus' use of light for image and analogy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004225503
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/10/2012
Series:	Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy , #27
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including a book, Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988).

William Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He has edited five previous volumes of BACAP proceedings and written numerous articles and reviews on ancient philosophy. His collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was recently published.

Contributors: David Bronstein, Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., R. J. Hankinson, Carl Huffman, Monte Johnson, Russell Jones, Christopher Long, Joel Mann, Richard McKirahan, Benjamin Morison, Nalin Ranasinghe, David Sedley, Andrew Smith, and Roslyn Weiss