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Why Aristotle Says There Is No Time Without Change, Tony Roark
Why Aristotle Says There Is No Time Without Change, Tony Roark
Tony Roark
The title of this paper is intended as a provocative (but friendly) reference to Ursula Coope's recent article 'Why Does Aristotle Say That There Is No Time Without Change?', which provides much of the impetus for the present paper.1 For although Coope's strategy in answering this question is admirable, and although I think that her criticisms of the standard interpretation of the argument that opens Physics IV 11 hit their mark, I believe that her own interpretation fails and that something rather like the standard interpretation is correct. In the first section, I rehearse Coope's treatment of the standard interpretation …
Why Aristotle Says There Is No Time Without Change, Tony Roark
Why Aristotle Says There Is No Time Without Change, Tony Roark
Tony Roark
The title of this paper is intended as a provocative (but friendly) reference to Ursula Coope's recent article 'Why Does Aristotle Say That There Is No Time Without Change?', which provides much of the impetus for the present paper.1 For although Coope's strategy in answering this question is admirable, and although I think that her criticisms of the standard interpretation of the argument that opens Physics IV 11 hit their mark, I believe that her own interpretation fails and that something rather like the standard interpretation is correct. In the first section, I rehearse Coope's treatment of the standard interpretation …
Aristotelian Temporal Passage, Tony Roark
Aristotelian Temporal Passage, Tony Roark
Tony Roark
The central challenge for the temporal realist is providing a coherent analysis of temporal passage, the apparent 'flow' of time from earlier to later. I show here how the account of time Aristotle presents in Physics IV could serve as a basis for just such an analysis, for his view is immune to the standard stock of objections leveled by twentieth century philosophers. And although his account is itself subject to a damning objection, I believe that the troublemaking element might be supplanted by alternative views suited to fulfill the requisite theoretical role. I conclude that, subject to such revision, …
Aristotle’S Definition Of Time Is Not Circular, Tony Roark
Aristotle’S Definition Of Time Is Not Circular, Tony Roark
Tony Roark
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Perspectival Cognition In Aristotle’S 'De Memoria', Tony Roark
Perspectival Cognition In Aristotle’S 'De Memoria', Tony Roark
Tony Roark
In the Protagoras, Socrates lauds the ‘art of measurement’ as something that would enable us to distinguish larger from smaller things, no matter how near or remote, and would thereby ‘save our life’. As he so often does, Aristotle takes his inspiration from Plato and formulates a theoretically-sophisticated account of the phenomenon of common interest—in this case, of perspectival cognition. In this paper, I offer novel interpretation of a challenging passage within the De Memoria in which Aristotle sketches his account.
Time For Aristotle: Physics Iv.10-14, By Ursula Coope. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005
Time For Aristotle: Physics Iv.10-14, By Ursula Coope. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005
Tony Roark
No abstract provided.
Teaching Aristotle On The Maypole Model, Tony Roark
Retribution, The Death Penalty, And The Limits Of Human Judgment, Tony Roark
Retribution, The Death Penalty, And The Limits Of Human Judgment, Tony Roark
Tony Roark
So serious a matter is capital punishment that we must consider very carefully any claim regarding its justification. Brian Calvert has offered a new version of the "argument from arbitrariness," according to which a retributivist cannot consistently hold that some, but not all, first-degree murderers may justifiably receive the death penalty, when it is conceived to be a unique form of punishment. At the heart of this argument is the line-drawing problem, and I am inclined to this that it is a genuine challenge for the retributivist. I respond on behalf of the retributivist by formulating a line-drawing method that …