Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXXIII (2017)

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

Overview

This volume, the thirty-third year of published proceedings, contains four papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2016-17. Paper topics include: a liar’s paradox in Parmenides’ Poem centered on the role of the goddess; Aristotelian logic as rooted in natural things, not mental entities, in Posterior Analytics; authorial freedom in Aristotle’s Poetics rooted in the ‘likely and necessary’; Callicles’ attack on philosophy as taking away one’s substance and Socrates’ concurrence to preserve its pursuit of truth and the good in Plato’s Gorgias. The comments do their work in challenging some of these claims and supporting others.

Contributors are Lloyd W. J. Aultman-Moore, Rose Cherubin, Shane Ewegen, Joseph M. Forte, Owen Goldin, Edward C. Halper, Jean-Marc Narbonne and Yale Weiss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004376939
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/09/2018
Series:	Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Series , #33
Pages:	122
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, including 2 books, most recently Ennead IV.4.30-45, IV.5, Translation and Commentary (2015), and co-edited Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship (2014).

William Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College and Adjunct Professor at Boston College. He has edited twelve previous volumes of BACAP proceedings. His collection Reading Aristotle: Argument and Explosion was published by Brill (2017).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Colloquium 1 Parmenides, Liars, and Mortal Incompleteness Rose Cherubin 1

Commentary on Cherubin Yale Weiss 22

Cherubin/Weiss Bibliography 27

Colloquium 2 The Metaphysics of the Syllogism Edward C. Halper 31

Commentary on Halper Owen Goldin 61

Halper/Goldin Bibliography 68

Colloquium 3 Likely and Necessary: The Poetics of Aristotle and the Problem of Literary Leeway Jean Marc Narbonne 69

Commentary on Narbonne J. Aultman-Moore 88

Narbonne/Aultman-Moore Bibliography 93

Colloquium 4 A Man of No Substance: The Philosopher in Plato's Gorgias S. Montgomery Ewegen 95

Commentary on Ewegen J.M. Forte 113

Ewegen/Forte Bibliography 118

Index 121