Τμήμα Κλασικών Σπουδών και Φιλοσοφίας / Department of Classics and Philosophy
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Hamilton’s Principle and Dispositional Essentialism: Friends or Foes?
(2018)Most recently Smart and Thébault revived an almost forgotten debate between Katzav and Ellis on the compatibility of Hamilton’s Principle (HP) with Dispositional Essentialism (DE). Katzav’s arguments inter alia aim to show ...
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Cohortatio-topoi in the description of the battle of actium in Vergil's aeneid
(2018)In his description of the naval battle of Actium depicted on Aeneas' new shield Vergil implicidy echoes the anticipated pre-battle rhetoric of Octavian. The epic poet seems to be in-fluenced by the relevant historiographical ...
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Evolutionary Debunking: The Milvian Bridge Destabilized
(2019)Recent literature has paid attention to a demarcation problem for evolutionary debunking arguments. This is the problem of asking in virtue of what regulative metaepistemic norm evolutionary considerations either render a ...
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Seneca's Hecuba and Lucan's Cornelia
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Do categorical properties confer dispositions on their bearers?
(2018)Categorical Monism (that is, the view that all fundamental natural properties are purely categorical) has recently been challenged by a number of philosophers. In this paper, I examine a challenge which can be based on ...
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Dispositionality and Symmetry Structures
(2018)A number of metaphysicians and philosophers of science have raised the issue of the modality of the fundamental structures of the world. Although the debate so far has been largely focused on the (alleged) inherent causal ...
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Tolstoy’s Implicit Moral Theory: An Interpretation and Appraisal
(2019)I sketch an interpretation of Tolstoy’s implicit moral theory on the basis of his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina. I suggest that Tolstoy is a theistic moral realist who believes that God’s will identifies the ...
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Intrinsic Dispositional Properties and Immanent Realism
(2018).... and have recently argued that immanent realism is incompatible with the existence of intrinsic but (at least partially) relationally constituted genuine dispositional properties. The success of Tugby’s and Yates’ ...
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Vikingism as a Metametaphysical Thesis
(2019)This paper aims to be a contribution to the recent discussion on the science-metaphysics relationship. After drawing a distinction between two aspects of the relationship, it defends the theoretical importance of the ...
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Presentation of biblical figures in poetic paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Metabole of St. John’s Gospel
(Brill, 2019)
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Epigrammatic topoi, Christian ideas and real events in selected epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus for Nonna, Caesarius and Basil the Great
(2018)Compra online il PDF di Epigrammatic topoi, Christian ideas and real events in selected epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus for Nonna, Caesarius and Basil the Great, Ypsilanti, Maria - Fabrizio Serra - Articolo
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Mehrfach beschriebene griechische Buchrollen
(Harassowitz Verlag, 2019)
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Notes on Ptolemaic Texts
(2018)
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Listing the Argonauts and the Warriors at Troy: Apollonius Rhodius in the Homeric Catalogues of Triphiodorus
(2019)After some initial remarks on the paratactic-catalogic structure of Triphiodorus “Ἰλίου “Ἅλωσις, the present paper discusses elements of the structure and content of the catalogues of lines 152–83 and 17–39 of Triphiodorus' ...
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Critical Notes on Greek Epigrams
(2019)
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The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene: Introduction, Text, Commentary
(Oxford University Press, 2018)Relatively little is known of the life of Crinagoras of Mytilene: a Greek epigrammatist and diplomat who lived between the first centuries BC and AD, he was despatched to Rome as part of the embassies to Julius Caesar and ...
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Metaepistemology: Realism and Anti-Realism
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between ...