PUBLICATIONS
Articles (* indicates those selected through peer review)
[1] With Carlos Spoerhase: »Historical Fallacies of Historians«, in: Aviezer Tucker (ed.), Blackwell’s Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Blackwell: Oxford 2008, 274–284.
[2*] »Sokratisches Nichtwissen und Aristotelische Wissenschaft: zwei epistemologische Modelle für den Umgang mit Autoritäten im dialektischen Gespräch« [“Socratic Ignorance and Aristotelian Science: Two epistemological models for dealing with authority in dialectical discussion”], in: Hartmut Böhme und Georg Toepfer (eds.), Transformationen der Antike, de Gruyter: Berlin 2010, 35–62.
[3*] »Error as a means of deception: Aristotle’s theory of sophistical premisses«, in: Markham Geller and Klaus Geus (eds.), Productive Errors: Scientific Concepts in Antiquity, in: Max-Plack-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint 430, Berlin 2012, 187–204.
[4*] »The making of an ancient scientific fact. Paradoxography in the Peripatos«, in: Klaus Geus and Martin Thiering (eds.), Commons Sense Geography and Mental Models, in: Max-Plack-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint 426, Berlin 2012, 139–144.
[5*] »False ἔνδοξα and fallacious argumentation«, in: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper and Christof Rapp (eds.), Fallacious Argument in the History of Philosophy, in: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (2013), Vol. 15, 185–199.
[6] »Die Achsendrehung der Erde bei Platon? August Boeckh und ein philologischer Streit um die Geschichte der antiken Astronomie«, in: Sabine Seifert/Christiane Hackel (eds.), August Boeckh: Philologie, Hermeneutik, Politik, Berlin 2013, 77–104.
[7*] »Aristotle after Austin«, in: Antiquorum Philosophia (2015), Vol. 8, 9–31.
[8*] »Einführung«, in: Colin Guthrie King, Roberto Lo Presti (eds.), Werner Jaeger: Wissenschaft – Bildung – Politik, in: Philologus Supplemente, Band 9, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2017, 1–4.
[9*] »Aristotle’s Categories in the 19th Century«, in: Gerald Hartung, Colin Guthrie King and Christof Rapp (eds.): Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, in: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2018, 11–36.
[10*] With Gerald Hartung and Christof Rapp: »Contours of Aristotelian Studies in the 19th Century«, in: Gerald Hartung, Colin Guthrie King and Christof Rapp (eds.): Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, in: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2018, 11–36.
[11*] With Klaus Geus: »Paradoxography«, in: Paul Keyser and John Scarborough (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2018, 431–444.
Books edited
[1] Ed., with A.M. Baertschi: Die modernen Väter der Antike. Die Entwicklung der Altertumswissenschaften an Akademie und Universität im Berlin des 19. Jahrhunderts [The modern fathers of antiquity: The development of „Altertumswissenschaften“ in Berlin in the 19th Century], de Gruyter: Berlin 2009.
[2] Ed., with Jan-Christof Heilinger and Héctor Wittwer, Individualität und Selbstbestimmung [Individuality and Self-Determination], Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 2009.
[3*] Ed., with Roberto Lo Presti, Werner Jaeger: Wissenschaft – Bildung – Politik, in: Philologus Supplemente, Band 9, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2017.
[4*] Ed., with Gerald Hartung and Christof Rapp: Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, in: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2018.
[5] Ed., with Hynek Bartos, Heat, pneuma and soul in ancient philosophy and science, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (forthcoming in 2019).
Review articles
[1] Review of L’excellence de la vie: sur „L’Éthique à Nicomaque“ et „L’Éthique à Eudème“ d’Aristote, Études sur la direction de Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, réunies et editées par Gwenaelle Aubry (Paris 2002), in: Methodos (2004).
[2] Review of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals, translation with introduction and commentary by James Lennox (Oxford 2001), in: Classical World, Volume 98 (2005).
[3] Review of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics. Translation, Introduction and Commentary by Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe (Oxford 2004)”, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Jahrgang 60, Heft 3 (2006).
[4] Review of Lloyd Gerson, Ancient Epistemology, Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press 2009), in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2010.08.30.
[5] Review of Aristoteles: Über die Teile der Lebewesen, übersetzt und erläutert von Wolfgang Kullmann (Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2007), in: RHIZOMATA (2013), Vol. 1, 135–145.
[6] Review of Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Book I. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Gisela Striker (Oxford: Oxford UP 2009), in: GNOMON, Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Klassische Altertumswissenschaft (2014), Band 86, Heft 6, pp. 484–488.
Further publication projects in progress or under contract
[1*] Aristotle’s Theory of Dialectical Argumentation [manuscript in progress].
[2] »Franz Brentano«, in: Ueberwegs Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts, Band 1/3: Deutschland, hg. v. Gerald Hartung, Schwabe.
[3] “Erring in Aristotle’s Analytics”. Article on Aristotle’s theory of deductive error in the Prior and Posterior Analytics.
[4] “Norms of action and argumentation: ἔνδοξα in Nicomachean Ethics 7.1”. Article on a major controversy in the interpretation of the role of “reputable notions” in Aristotle’s ethics.
[5] “Arguments from acceptable premises in the 5th Century BC”.
[6] “Δόξαι and ἔνδοξα: Authority and communities of knowledge in Aristotle”. Extensive article on Aristotle’s practice of attributing doctrines to individuals and groups, and the value of these attributions for the historiography of ancient philosophy.
[7] “Truth in voting and fair representation”. Here I argue that, though no voting procedure is optimal in the sense of satisfying all of Arrow’s basic criteria for rational preference aggregation, some voting mechanisms are more true than others in the sense that they are more faithful to their inputs. Solicited by Matteo Bonotti (Cardiff) and Daniel Weinstock (McGill) for a volume on electoral reform and political theory.
Popular science and science communication
[1] “Aristoteles hilft. Was Worte wert sind”, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3. Dezember 2010 (Online Ausgabe), http://www.faz.net/-01kxb2
[2] “Ich kann nicht zwei Mütter haben”, in: der Freitag, 24. Mai 2011.
[3] With Manfred Schmitt and Cosima Möller: “Definition of spaces by means of surveying and limitation”, in: eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies, Special Volume 1, http://journal.topoi.org/index.php/etopoi/index
[4] “August Boeckh in the 21st Century”, in: JHI Blog. Posted in August 2015.
[1] With Carlos Spoerhase: »Historical Fallacies of Historians«, in: Aviezer Tucker (ed.), Blackwell’s Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Blackwell: Oxford 2008, 274–284.
[2*] »Sokratisches Nichtwissen und Aristotelische Wissenschaft: zwei epistemologische Modelle für den Umgang mit Autoritäten im dialektischen Gespräch« [“Socratic Ignorance and Aristotelian Science: Two epistemological models for dealing with authority in dialectical discussion”], in: Hartmut Böhme und Georg Toepfer (eds.), Transformationen der Antike, de Gruyter: Berlin 2010, 35–62.
[3*] »Error as a means of deception: Aristotle’s theory of sophistical premisses«, in: Markham Geller and Klaus Geus (eds.), Productive Errors: Scientific Concepts in Antiquity, in: Max-Plack-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint 430, Berlin 2012, 187–204.
[4*] »The making of an ancient scientific fact. Paradoxography in the Peripatos«, in: Klaus Geus and Martin Thiering (eds.), Commons Sense Geography and Mental Models, in: Max-Plack-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint 426, Berlin 2012, 139–144.
[5*] »False ἔνδοξα and fallacious argumentation«, in: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper and Christof Rapp (eds.), Fallacious Argument in the History of Philosophy, in: Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (2013), Vol. 15, 185–199.
[6] »Die Achsendrehung der Erde bei Platon? August Boeckh und ein philologischer Streit um die Geschichte der antiken Astronomie«, in: Sabine Seifert/Christiane Hackel (eds.), August Boeckh: Philologie, Hermeneutik, Politik, Berlin 2013, 77–104.
[7*] »Aristotle after Austin«, in: Antiquorum Philosophia (2015), Vol. 8, 9–31.
[8*] »Einführung«, in: Colin Guthrie King, Roberto Lo Presti (eds.), Werner Jaeger: Wissenschaft – Bildung – Politik, in: Philologus Supplemente, Band 9, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2017, 1–4.
[9*] »Aristotle’s Categories in the 19th Century«, in: Gerald Hartung, Colin Guthrie King and Christof Rapp (eds.): Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, in: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2018, 11–36.
[10*] With Gerald Hartung and Christof Rapp: »Contours of Aristotelian Studies in the 19th Century«, in: Gerald Hartung, Colin Guthrie King and Christof Rapp (eds.): Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, in: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2018, 11–36.
[11*] With Klaus Geus: »Paradoxography«, in: Paul Keyser and John Scarborough (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2018, 431–444.
Books edited
[1] Ed., with A.M. Baertschi: Die modernen Väter der Antike. Die Entwicklung der Altertumswissenschaften an Akademie und Universität im Berlin des 19. Jahrhunderts [The modern fathers of antiquity: The development of „Altertumswissenschaften“ in Berlin in the 19th Century], de Gruyter: Berlin 2009.
[2] Ed., with Jan-Christof Heilinger and Héctor Wittwer, Individualität und Selbstbestimmung [Individuality and Self-Determination], Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 2009.
[3*] Ed., with Roberto Lo Presti, Werner Jaeger: Wissenschaft – Bildung – Politik, in: Philologus Supplemente, Band 9, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2017.
[4*] Ed., with Gerald Hartung and Christof Rapp: Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, in: New Studies in the History and Historiography of Philosophy, de Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2018.
[5] Ed., with Hynek Bartos, Heat, pneuma and soul in ancient philosophy and science, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (forthcoming in 2019).
Review articles
[1] Review of L’excellence de la vie: sur „L’Éthique à Nicomaque“ et „L’Éthique à Eudème“ d’Aristote, Études sur la direction de Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, réunies et editées par Gwenaelle Aubry (Paris 2002), in: Methodos (2004).
[2] Review of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals, translation with introduction and commentary by James Lennox (Oxford 2001), in: Classical World, Volume 98 (2005).
[3] Review of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics. Translation, Introduction and Commentary by Sarah Broadie and Christopher Rowe (Oxford 2004)”, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Jahrgang 60, Heft 3 (2006).
[4] Review of Lloyd Gerson, Ancient Epistemology, Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press 2009), in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2010.08.30.
[5] Review of Aristoteles: Über die Teile der Lebewesen, übersetzt und erläutert von Wolfgang Kullmann (Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2007), in: RHIZOMATA (2013), Vol. 1, 135–145.
[6] Review of Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Book I. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Gisela Striker (Oxford: Oxford UP 2009), in: GNOMON, Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Klassische Altertumswissenschaft (2014), Band 86, Heft 6, pp. 484–488.
Further publication projects in progress or under contract
[1*] Aristotle’s Theory of Dialectical Argumentation [manuscript in progress].
[2] »Franz Brentano«, in: Ueberwegs Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts, Band 1/3: Deutschland, hg. v. Gerald Hartung, Schwabe.
[3] “Erring in Aristotle’s Analytics”. Article on Aristotle’s theory of deductive error in the Prior and Posterior Analytics.
[4] “Norms of action and argumentation: ἔνδοξα in Nicomachean Ethics 7.1”. Article on a major controversy in the interpretation of the role of “reputable notions” in Aristotle’s ethics.
[5] “Arguments from acceptable premises in the 5th Century BC”.
[6] “Δόξαι and ἔνδοξα: Authority and communities of knowledge in Aristotle”. Extensive article on Aristotle’s practice of attributing doctrines to individuals and groups, and the value of these attributions for the historiography of ancient philosophy.
[7] “Truth in voting and fair representation”. Here I argue that, though no voting procedure is optimal in the sense of satisfying all of Arrow’s basic criteria for rational preference aggregation, some voting mechanisms are more true than others in the sense that they are more faithful to their inputs. Solicited by Matteo Bonotti (Cardiff) and Daniel Weinstock (McGill) for a volume on electoral reform and political theory.
Popular science and science communication
[1] “Aristoteles hilft. Was Worte wert sind”, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3. Dezember 2010 (Online Ausgabe), http://www.faz.net/-01kxb2
[2] “Ich kann nicht zwei Mütter haben”, in: der Freitag, 24. Mai 2011.
[3] With Manfred Schmitt and Cosima Möller: “Definition of spaces by means of surveying and limitation”, in: eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies, Special Volume 1, http://journal.topoi.org/index.php/etopoi/index
[4] “August Boeckh in the 21st Century”, in: JHI Blog. Posted in August 2015.
