Abandoned Footnotes

(Attention conservation notice: Inspired by a student’s comment a while back, this has languished in my drafts folder. Contains speculative ...

Due to a vaguely superstitious reluctance to make an announcement until I had the final physical copies in my hands, I neglected to announce...

(Fourth in the series promised here . Usual disclaimers apply: this is work in progress and so it is still a bit muddled, though comments ar...

(Warning: 2000 words or so on the place of “hills” and “valleys” in Greek political thought). As I mentioned in a previous post , reading S...

One epistemic argument for conservatism (or rather, gradualism) goes more or less like this. We have grave epistemic limitations that preven...

In a post I wrote three years ago, before I abandoned this blog for the first time (in accordance with its name) I mentioned a passage in P...

Chuck Close apparently suffers from face blindness . [! - via marginal revolution ] DuPont's solution to the problem of securing explosi...

It is not often noted (an exception is Hemmenway 1994 , p. 265, note 12 [ JSTOR ]) that the Stranger’s top-most category in his divisions, t...

From Diogenes Laertius VI.40 : Plato defined man as a featherless biped [ Statesman 266e ], and was much applauded [for that]. [Diogenes h...

Among some commentators (e.g. Zuckert 2000 , pp. 71-72) it has sometimes been argued that the difference between the Socratic and the Eleati...

The Sophist and the Statesman seem to present themselves as a kind of philosophical trial of Socrates (see Cropsey 1995 ; Friedländer 196...