ADDRESS: Department of Philosophy BIRTH: September 28, 1951
University of Georgia TELEPHONE: 706-542-0668 (O)
E-MAIL: ehalper@uga.edu 706-546-1096 (H)
EDUCATION AND DEGREES:
B.A. (General Honors) “Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods”
University of Chicago, 1973
M.A. Philosophy, Columbia University, 1975
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1980
Dissertation: “Unity in Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
Supervisor: Professor Joseph Owens Advisor: Professor J. M. Rist
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS:
1973-1974, 1974-1975 Columbia University Graduate Fellowship (Declined 1974-75)
1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979 University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship
1979 George Paxton Young Memorial Fellowship
1980-1981 NEH Grant to Develop Introductory “Cluster” Course on the Philosophy of Science
1983 NEH Grant to participate in G.E.L. Owen Memorial Workshop on Aristotle’s
Metaphysics and Epistemology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
1986 NEH Grant to participate in a conference, The Interaction of Science and
Philosophy in Fifth and Fourth Century Greece, University of Pittsburgh
1988 University of Georgia Research Foundation Grant
1990 American Philosophical Association & UGA Office of Instructional Development—to
participate in an American Philosophical Association Workshop on Teaching
Philosophy, Baltimore, MD
1991 University of Georgia Research Foundation Grant
1995-96 University of Georgia Humanities Center Fellowship
1997 University of Georgia Research Foundation Grant
2000 University of Georgia Research Foundation Grant
2000 M. G. Michael Award for Excellence in
Research
2001 University of Georgia International Academic Program Development Fund Grant
2001-2002 J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar, Germany
2002-2005 General Sandy Beaver Professor
2006 University of Georgia Research Foundation Grant
2006- Josiah Meigs Professor
LANGUAGES: French, German, Latin, and Ancient Greek
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
1-80 - 6-80 Teaching Fellow Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
9-80 - 6-84 Assistant Professor Gustavus Adolphus College
9-84 - 7-87 Assistant Professor University of Georgia
7-87 - 7-92 Associate Professor (with tenure) University of Georgia
7-92 - present Professor University of Georgia
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Philological Association, American Philosophical Association, Canadian Philosophical Association, Hegel Society of America, Hegel Society of Great Britain, International Association for Greek Philosophy, International Plato Society, Metaphysical Society of America (executive council), Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
1. One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics: The Central Books. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1989. Reprinted with a new introduction by Parmenides Press, 2005.
2. Form and Reason: Essays in Metaphysics. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993.
3. One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics:
Books A-Δ. Las Vegas:
Parmenides Press, 2007, forthcoming.
4. One and Many in Aristotle’s Metaphysics:
Books I-N. Las Vegas: Parmenides
Press, 2008, forthcoming.
Database:
1. Metaphysics B-Γ, A Detailed Analysis of Aristotle’s text, Project Archelogos, forthcoming.
Articles and Book Chapters:
1. “An Aristotelian Problem,” Paideia: Special Aristotle Issue (1978): 50-58.
2. “Self-Relation in Hegel’s Science of Logic,” Philosophy Research Archives, VII (1981): 89-133.
3. “Ackrill, Aristotle, and Analytic Philosophy,” Ancient Philosophy, II (1982): 142-151.
4. “Aristotle on the Extension of Non-Contradiction,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, I (1984): 369-380.
5. “Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature,” Review of Metaphysics, XXXVII (1984): 811-835.
6. “Metaphysics Z 12 and H 6: The Unity of Form and Composite,” Ancient Philosophy, IV (1984): 146-159.
7. “Aristotle on the Convertibility of One and Being,” The New Scholasticism, LIX (1985): 213-227.
8. “Metaphysics Z 4-5: An Argument from Addition,” Ancient Philosophy, VI (1986): 91-122.
9. “‘Being qua Being’ in Metaphysics Γ,” Elenchos: Rivista di studi sul pensiero antico, VIII (1987): 43-62.
10. “Aristotle’s Solution to the Problem of Sensible Substance,” Journal of Philosophy, LXXXIV (1987): 666-72.
11. “Aristotle on the Possibility of Metaphysics,” Revue de Philosophie Ancienne, V (1987): 99-131.
12. “The Origin of Aristotle’s Metaphysical Aporiai” Apeiron, XXI (1988): 1-27. Reprinted in A. Preus and J. Anton, eds. Aristotle’s Ontology. Vol. V of Essays in Ancient Philosophy, pp. 151-75. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
13. “Aristotle on the Convertibility of One and Being,” Philosophy and Culture: Proceedings of the XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. III, pp. 259-64. Montreal: Editions Montmorency, 1988.
14. “Is Creativity Good?” British Journal of Aesthetics, XXVIII (1989): 47-56.
15. “Some Problems in Aristotle’s Mathematical Ontology,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, V (1989): 247-75.
16. “Hegel and the Problem of the Differentia,” in Essays on Hegel’s Logic, ed. George di Giovanni, pp. 191-202. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
17. “A Note on the Unity of the Parmenides,” Hermes: Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie CXVIII (1990): 31-42.
18. “The ‘Socrates’ of Plato’s Early Dialogues,” in The Philosophy of Socrates: Elenchus, Ethics, and Truth, ed. K. Boudouris, vol. II of the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Greek Philosophy. Athens, Greece: Kardamista, 1992, pp. 81-87.
19. “Aitia,” “Autarkia,” “Dianoia,” “Elenchus,” “Nous,” “One-Many Problem,” “Ousia,” “Telos,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. “One Over Many,” 2nd ed., 1999.
20. “The Substance of Aristotle’s Ethics,” in The Crossroads of Norm and Nature: Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics and Metaphysics, edited by May Sim, Lantham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995, pp. 3-28. Reprinted in Serbo-Croatian translation in: Filozofski Godis*njak, VII (1994): 260-87.
21. “Virtue and the State,” in Aristotelian Political Philosophy, vol. 1, edited by K. Boudouris, pp. 79-90. Athens, Greece: International Center of Greek Philosophy and Culture, 1995.
22. “The Logic of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Nature, Space, and Time,” in Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, edited by Stephen Houlgate, pp. 29-49. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
23. “Judaism and the Liberal State,” in On Liberty: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Daniel Frank, pp. 63-81. London: Curzon Press, 1999.
24. “Poetry, History, and Dialectic,” in From Puzzles to Problems?: Essays on Aristotle’s Dialectic, edited by May Sim. Lexington Press, 1999, pp. 211-23.
25. “Aristotle on the Unity of Virtue,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, XVII (1999): 115-43.
26. “The Logic of Art: Beauty and Nature,” in Hegel and Aesthetics, edited by William Maker, pp. 187-202. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
27. “Is Knowledge of Knowledge Possible?: Charmides 167a-169d,” Plato. Euthydemus, Lysis, Charmides. Proceedings of the V Symposium Platonicum, edited by Thomas M. Robinson and Luc Brisson, pp. 309-316. Sankt Augustin, Germany: Academica Verlag, 2000.
28. “Hegel’s Family Values,” Review of Metaphysics, LIV (2001), 815-858.
29. “Maimonides and Nachmanides on Sending Away the Mother Bird,” in Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Greek and Medieval Past, edited by Thomas Robinson and Laura Westra, pp. 185-201. Lantham, Md.: Lexington Press, 2002.
30. “The Idealism of Hegel’s System,” The Owl of Minerva, XXXIV (2002), 19-58.
31. “Soul, Soul’s Motions, and Virtue in Plato’s Laws,” Proceedings of the VI Symposium Platonicum, edited by Samuel Scolnicov and Luc Brisson, pp. 257-67. Sankt Augustin, Germany: Academica Verlag, 2003.
32. “Positive and Negative Dialectics: Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik and Plato’s Parmenides,” in Platonismus im Idealismus: Die platonische Tradition in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie, edited by Burkhard Mojsisch and Orrin F. Summerell, pp. 211-245. Munich: K. G. Saur Verlag, 2003.
33. “Spinoza on the Political Value of Freedom of Religion,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, XXI (2004), 167-82. Reprinted (and abridged) in: Proceedings of the XXIth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 8, Philosophy of Religion, edited by William McBride, 37-44.
34. “Dialog und Argument in Platons Protagoras,” in Platon Verstehen. Themen und Perspektiven, edited by Marcel van Ackeren, pp. 39-56. Darmstadt: Wissenshaftliche Buchgesselschaft, 2004.
35. “Plato’s Case for Philosophy as the Examined Life,” in Conceptions of Philosophy. Ancient and Modern, edited by K. Boudouris, pp. 133-50. Athens: Ionia Publications, 2004.
36. “Plato’s Principles of Mathematics,” in Christian August Brandis, A Study of the Lost Books of Aristotle On the Ideas and On the Good or On Philosophy, Studia Philosophia et Historia, vol. 27, trans. and edited by Orrin F. Summerell, pp. 99-122. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005.
37. “Peut-on enseigner la vertu?” in La Philosophie de Platon, vol. 2, edited by Michel Fattal, pp. 271-290. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005.
38. “A Tale of Two Metaphysics: Alison Stone’s Environmental Hegel,” Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Double Issue, nos. 51/52 (2005): 1-12.
39. “The Idea of the Political and the Challenge of Particularity: Plato, Modernity, and Post-Modern Political Identification,” in The Political Identity of the West, edited by Orrin F. Summerell and Marcel van Ackeren, pp. 70-89. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006.
40. “Plato on the Rationality of Nature,” Skepsis (2007) forthcoming.
41. “A Lesson from the Meno,” Proceedings of the VII Symposium Platonicum, edited by Michael Erler. Sankt Augustin, Germany: Academica Verlag, forthcoming.
42. “Aristotle and the Liberal State,” in Aristotle’s Politics Today, edited by
Lenn Goodman and Robert Talisse, pp. 50-64.
Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming.
43. “Aristotle’s Paradigmatism: Metaphysics I and the Difference It Makes,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, XXII (2006), forthcoming.
44. “Hegel’s Criticism of Newton,” The Cambridge Companion to Hegel, 2nd
ed., edited by Frederick Beiser.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
E-Publications:
1. “Aristotle’s Political Virtues,” The Paideia Project On-Line: Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy [Essay - #010052 - 25.5K] http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciHal2.htm
2. “The Logic of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Nature, Space, and Time,” Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, formerly: http://www.hegel.net/Nature/eh.html currently: http://www.gwfhegel.org/Nature/eh.html
3. “Poetry, History, and Dialectic,” The Paideia Project On-Line: Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy [Essay - #010051 - 32.1K] http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciHal1.htm
Scholarly, Non-Philosophical, Refereed Article:
1. “A Note on the Afikoman,” Response, XV (1986), 23-27.
Abstracts, Replies, and Teaching Articles:
1. “Self-Relation in Hegel’s Science of Logic,” (a description of the article that appeared in Philosophy Research Archives), The Owl of Minerva XVII (1986), 234-235.
2. “Letter to the Editor,” Phronesis XL (1995): 116-17.
3. “Halper on Pakaluk on Sedley,” Bryn Mawr Classical Review (October, 2001).
4. “Ethics in Film,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy III, no. 1 (Fall, 2003), 191-95.
5. “Freshman Seminar Film Courses,” Teaching Philosophy XXVIII, no. 4 (2005), 351-65.
6. “The Idealism of Hegel’s System,” “Hegel’s Family Values” (descriptions of 28 and 30 above), Hegel Studien XXXIX/XL (2004/2005): 330-31, 386.
7. “A Tale of Two Metaphysics: Alison Stone’s Environmental Hegel” (abstract of 38 above), Hegel Studien XLI (2006), forthcoming.
Book Reviews:
1. Sayre, Kenneth M. Plato’s Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. In Classical World, LXXVIII (1985), 609-10.
2. Lord, Carnes. Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982. In Ancient Philosophy, V (1985), 109-13.
3. Furth, Montgomery. Aristotle Metaphysics: Books VII-X. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. In Classical World, LXXX (1987), 317.
4. Bolter, J. David. Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. In Classical Journal, LXXXIV (1988), 64-67.
5. Miller, Mitchell, Jr. Plato’s Parmenides: The Conversion of the Soul. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. In Classical World, LXXXII (1988), 132.
6. Kraemer, Hans Joachim. Plato on the Foundations of Metaphysics. Translated by John R. Catan. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990. In Choice (1991), 256-57.
7. Oehler, Klaus. Der Unbewegte Beweger des Aristoteles. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1984. In Ancient Philosophy, XI (1991), 439-44.
8. Gill, Mary Louise. Aristotle on Substance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. In Journal of the History of Philosophy, XXX (1992), 444-46.
9. Loux, Michael. Primary Ousia: An Essay on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z and H. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991. In Review of Metaphysics, XLVI (1993), 625-27.
10. Judson, Lindsay, ed. Aristotle’s Physics: A Collection of Essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. In Choice, (1992), 248.
11. Dooley, William E. and Arthur Madigan (trr). Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle’s Metaphysics 2 & 3. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. In Classical World, LXXXVIII (1994), 63-64.
12. Lacey, A. R. Philoponus. On Aristotle’s Physics 2. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. In Choice, December, 1993, 263.
13. Urmson, J. O. Simplicius. On Aristotle’s Physics 4.1-5, 10-14. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. In Choice, XXXI (1993), 267.
14. Madigan, Arthur. Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle’s Metaphysics 4. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994. William E. Dooley, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle’s Metaphysics 5. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1994. In Choice, XXXII (1994), 262-63.
15. Barnes, Jonathan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. In Choice, XXXIII (1995).
16. Sachs, Joe. Aristotle’s Physics: A Guided Study. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995. In Review of Metaphysics, L (1997), 687-89.
17. Sayre, Kenneth. Parmenides’ Lesson. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. In Choice, XXXV (1997).
18. Cohen, Sheldon M. Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. In Philosophy in Review XVII (1997), 317-19.
19. The Fourth Tetralogy. Internet site. In Choice, XXXVI sup. (1998), 94.
20. Sherman, Nancy, ed. Aristotle’s Ethics: Critical Essays. Lantham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. In Choice, XXXVII (1999).
21. Philosophy News. Internet site. In Choice, XXXVII sup. (2000), 193.
22. Rappe, Sara. Reading Neoplatonism: Non-discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. In Choice, XXXIX (2001).
23. Newman, Jay. Biblical Religion and Family Values: A Problem in the Philosophy of Culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001. In Choice, XXXIX (July, 2002).
24. Jedan, Christoph. Willensfreiheit bei Aristoteles? Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000. In Bochumer Philosophisches Jarbuch für Mittelalter, VII (2002), 243-49.
25. Pangle, Lorraine Smith. Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. In Choice XL (July, 2003).
26. Madigan, Arthur. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book B and Book K 1-2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. In Review of Metaphysics, LVII (December, 2003), 383-85.
27. Pangle, Lorraine Smith. Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. In Review of Metaphysics, LVII (December, 2003), 430-32.
28. Aristotle Bibliography. Internet site. www.Aristotlebibliography.com. In Choice, XLI (March, 2004).
29. Gilmore, Richard A. Doing Philosophy at the Movies. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. In Choice XLIII (December 2005), 672.
30. Michellini, Anne N., ed. Plato as Author: The Rhetoric of Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2003. In Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie LXXXVIII (2006), 230-32.
31. Pasquale, Gianluigi. Aristotle and the Principle of Non-Contradiction. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2005. In Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science, forthcoming.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS TO PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
1. “The Unity of Form in Sensible Substance,” Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and Technology, American Oriental Society, Annual Meeting, April, 1978.
2. “Aristotle’s Definition of Number,” Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Colloquium, University of Toronto, December, 1978.
3. “Metaphysics Z-H: The Unity of Form,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Canada, June, 1979.
4. “The Kantian Way of Answering Hume,” Comments on paper by D. Goldstick, University of Toronto Philosophical Evening, March, 1980.
5. “Aristotle on the Essence of Artifacts,” Comments on paper by L. Gerson, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Halifax, Canada, June, 1981.
6. “Aristotle on the Extension of Non-Contradiction,” Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, June, 1982.
7. “Metaphysics Z 12 and H 6: A Doublet?” G.E.L. Owen Memorial Workshop on Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Epistemology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January, 1983.
8. “Metaphysics Z 4-5: An Argument from Addition,” American Philosophical Association, Western Division, Chicago April, 1983.
9. “Aristotle on the Convertibility of One and Being,” XVIIth World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, Canada, August, 1983.
10. “Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Long Beach, California, March, 1984.
11. “Aristotle on the Convertibility of One and Being,” American Philosophical Association, Western Division, Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 1984.
12. “Aristotle on the Possibility of Metaphysics,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 1985.
13. “Being qua Being in Metaphysics Γ,” American Philosophical Association, Western Division, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1985.
14. “Self-Relation in Hegel’s Logic,” Society for Systematic Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 1985.
15. “The Origin of Aristotle’s Metaphysical Aporiai,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Philological Association and the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 1985.
16. “Aristotle and the Megarians,” Comments on a paper by Lindsay Judson, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, Mass., December, 1986.
17. “Accidental Causes: Aristotle and Beyond,” Metaphysical Society of America, New York, New York, March, 1987.
18. “Aristotle’s Solution to the Problem of Substance in Metaphysics Z-Θ,” Georgia Philosophical Society, Athens, Georgia, April, 1987.
19. “The Rational Basis of Aristotle’s Virtue,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 1987.
20. “Metaphysics Zeta 4-6 and Aristotle’s Epistemology,” Comments on a paper by Michael Morgan, The University of Dayton Sixteenth Annual Philosophy Colloquium: Aristotle’s Ethics and Metaphysics, November, 1987.
21. “Aristotle’s Solution to the Problem of Sensible Substance,” Invited Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, New York, December, 1987.
22. “The Rational Basis of Aristotle’s Virtue,” XVIIIth World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, England, August, 1988.
23. “Hegel and the Problem of the Differentia,” Hegel Society of America, Tenth Biennial Meeting, October 1988.
24. “Idealist Refutations of Idealism,” Comments on a paper by Arindam Chakrabarti, Society for Systematic Philosophy meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 1988.
25. “Some Problems in Aristotle’s Mathematical Ontology,” 11th Annual Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Boston College, March, 1989.
26. “Does Aristotle Beg the Question in his Defense of the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Comments on a paper by Michael J. Degnan, American Catholic Philosophical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1989.
27. “Two Problems in Aristotelian Ethics,” (A) American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1989. (B) Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Congress, Quebec, Canada. May, 1989.
28. “Individuality,” Society for Systematic Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, Georgia, December, 1989.
29. “Plato on the Good,” “Aristotle on the Good,” NEH Summer Institute on Classical Ethics, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, June, 1990.
30. “The ‘Socrates’ of Plato’s Early Dialogues,” Second International Conference on Greek Philosophy: The Philosophy of Socrates, Samos, Greece, August, 1990.
31. “Plato and Aristotle on Friendship,” (A) Ninth Annual Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Baruch College, New York, New York, October, 1990. (B) Department of Philosophy, Emory University, March, 1992. (C) American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, Oregon, March, 1992.
32. “Aristotle’s Accidental Causes,” Colloquium, University of South Carolina, April, 1991.
33. “Plato’s Statesman and the Craft Analogy,” Third Symposium Platonicum, International Plato Society, Bristol, England, August, 1992.
34. “The Substance of Aristotle’s Ethics,” Eleventh Annual Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, New York, October, 1992.
35. “Aristotle’s ‘Exclusive’ Account of Happiness: Contemplative Wisdom as a Guise of the Political Philosopher,” Comments on a paper by Ronna Burger, Society for Systematic Philosophy meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 1992.
36. “Aristotle’s Transcendental Unity,” Comments on a paper by Donald Morrison, Metaphysical Society of America, University of Notre Dame, March, 1993.
37. “The Logic of the Philosophy of Right: Property and Contracts,” Hegel Society of America, meeting in conjunction with the XIXth World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, August, 1993.
38. “Aristotle on the Happy Life,” (A) XIXth World Congress of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia, August, 1993. (B) American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, May, 1994.
39. “Aristotle’s Concept of Nature,” (A) Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, State University of New York, Binghamton, October, 1993. (B) “Philosopher’s Holiday,” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, October, 1993.
40. “Maimonides on Creation: Purpose or Necessity?” University of Georgia lecture series: “From Maimonides to Modernity: Philosophical Thought and the Jewish Tradition” sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Departments of Religion and Philosophy, May 24, 1994.
41. “Virtue and the State,” (A) Sixth International Conference on Greek Philosophy: Aristotle’s Political Philosophy, Ierissos, Greece, August, 1994. (B) Thirteenth Annual Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, State University of New York, Binghamton, October, 1994.
42. “The Logic of Hegel’s Naturphilosophie: Nature, Space and Time,” Hegel Society of America, Thirteenth Biennial Meeting, Washington, D. C., October 1994.
43. “The Works of Reason in Plato’s Timaeus,” (A) University of Georgia Symposium “Plato’s Later Dialogues: Dramatic Structure, Dialogicality, and Metaphysics,” sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Departments of Philosophy and Classics, June 2, 1994. (B) Fourth Symposium Platonicum, International Plato Society, Grenada, Spain, September, 1995.
44. “Aristotle and Hegel on the State,” Society for Systematic Philosophy meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, New York, December, 1995.
45. “The Unity of Virtue and the Unity of Life,” (A) Colloquium at the University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, October, 1995. (B) Colloquium at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, February, 1996. (C) Colloquium at the University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, March, 1996. (D) Colloquium at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, April, 1996. (E) American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, April, 1996.
46. “Judaism and the Liberal State,” Academy for Jewish Philosophy, Nashville, Tennessee, June, 1996.
47. “The Logic of Art: Beauty and Nature,” Hegel Society of America, Fourteenth Biennial Conference, Keystone, Colorado, October, 1996.
48. “Timaeus 31b4-32c4: A Case for Mathematical Intermediates,” Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Annual Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, May, 1997.
49. “Aristotle’s Political Virtues,” (A) Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, June, 1997; (B) XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachussetts, August, 1998.
50. “Poetry, History, and Dialectic,” (A) American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Los Angeles, California, March 1998; (B) XXth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts, August, 1998.
51. “Knowledge of Knowledge and the Good: Charmides 167a-175a,” Fifth Symposium Platonicum, International Plato Society, Toronto, Canada, August, 1998.
52. “Hegel’s Family Values,” (A) Society for Systematic Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington, D.C., December, 1998; (B) Department of Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, January, 2001; (C) Philosophy Department, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, February 2001; (D) Hoger Institute for Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, April, 2002.
53. “Judaism, Epistemology, and Realism,” Academy for Jewish Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1999.
54. “The Idealism of Hegel’s System,” Hegel Society of America, meeting in conjunction with the Americal Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1999.
55. “The Ontology of the Good: The End of Mechanism,” Metaphysical Society of America, Annual Meeting, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March, 2000.
56. “Maimonides and Nachmanides on Sending Away the Mother Bird,” International Society for Environmental Ethics, Florence, Italy, August, 2000.
57. “Thinking and Being in Aristotle,” (A) Institute for Philosophy, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany, February, 2001; (B) Mid-West Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January, 2002; (C) Departmental Colloquium, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, January, 2002; (D) Departmental Colloquium, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, May, 2005; (E) Department of Classics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, June, 2005; (F) Colloquium, Oxford University, June, 2005.
58. “Soul, Soul’s Motions, and Virtue in Plato’s Laws,” (A) Sixth Symposium Platonicum, Jerusalem, Israel, August, 2001; (B) American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Philadelphia, December, 2002.
59. “Hegel’s Logic and Plato’s Parmenides,” (A) Society for Systematic Philosophy meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, December 2001; (B) Conference on “Platonismus im Deutschen Idealismus,” Ruhr University Bochum, Gernany, July, 2002.
60. “The Metaphysics of Human Relationships,” (A) Institute for Philosophy, University of Bielefeld, Germany, April, 2002; (B) Fachschaft Philosophie, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, June 2002; (C) Institute for Environment, Philosophy & Public Policy, Lancaster University, England, May, 2005.
61. “Participation and Mathematical Intermediates in Plato’s Timaeus,” Institute for Philosophy, University of Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, June, 2002.
62. “The Ontology of Aristotle’s Logic,” Institute for Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany, June, 2002.
63. “The One and the Unmoved Movers in Metaphysics Λ,” Institute for Philology, University of Tübingen, June, 2002.
64. “Virtue and the Political Life in Aristotle,” Thomas Institute, University of Cologne, Germany, June 2002.
65. “Can Virtue be Taught?” Institute for Philology, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, July 2002.
66. “The Possibility of Political Knowledge in Plato’s Second Best States,” Presentation to Dorothea Frede’s seminar, University of Hamburg, July, 2002.
67. “Dialogue and Argument in Plato’s Protagoras,” American Philological Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January, 2003.
68. “Plato on the Rationality of Nature,” Fourteenth International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture, Pyrgos, Greece, July, 2003.
69. “The Life of Reason and the Good Life,” comments on a paper by Christopher Rowe, round table, Fourteenth International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture, Pyrgos, Greece, July, 2003.
70. “Spinoza on the Political Value of Freedom of Religion,” (A) XXIth World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2003; (B) American Philosophical Association Central Division, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., April, 2004.
71. “Plato’s Case for Philosophy as the Examined Life,” Invited Speaker, Fifteenth International Conference on Greek Philosophy, Ouranoupolis, Greece, August, 2003.
72. “Aristotle and the Liberal State,” (A) Special Session on the Contemporary Relevance of Aristotle’s Political Philosophy at the XXIth World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2003; (B) Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Annual Conference, New York, October, 2003.
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74. “The Idea of the Political and the Challenge of Particularity: Plato, Modernity, and Post-Modern Political Identification,” conference on “The Political Identity of the West in the Mirror of Platonism” sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Hamburg, Germany, July, 2004.
75. “A Lesson from the Meno,” Seventh Symposium Platonicum, Würzburg, Germany, July, 2004.
76. “Maimonides’ Aristotelianism in the Eight Chapters,” Association for Jewish Studies, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., December, 2004.
77. “Hegel’s Critique of Newtonian Physics,” (A) Metaphysical Society of America, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., March, 2005; (B) University of Warwick, Warwick, England, May, 2005; (C) Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, York University, Toronto, May, 2006.
78. “A Tale of Two Metaphysics: Alison Stone’s Environmental Hegel,” Author Meets Critics Symposium on Alison Stone’s Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, Calif., March, 2005.
79. “Arguments of Adamant and Iron,” Department of Classics, University of Durham, Durham, England, May, 2005.
80. “Aristotle on the Principle of Non-Contradiction,” Departmental Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, May, 2005.
81. “Civil Obedience: Justice in the Crito,” (A) Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Annual Conference, Haifa, Israel, June, 2005; (B) Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, Canada, June, 2006.
82. “Universal Man and the Freedom of the Particular,” International Society for Universal Dialogue, Helsinki, Finland, July, 2005.
83. “Aristotle’s Paradigmatism: Metaphysics I and the Difference It Makes,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, November, 2005.
84. “The Ultimate Why Question: The Hegelian Alternative,” Metaphysical Society of America, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., March, 2006.
85. “Humor, Dialectic, and Human Nature in Plato,” Plato and Humor Panel, American Philological Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January, 2007.
86. “Aristotle’s Generic Being,” Metaphysical Society of America, Vanderbilt University, March, 2007.
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