Mr Shewring, C.Q. XXV. 14, gives statistics of the clausulae favoured in Aristotle's Ethics. I have applied them to test a few conjectural emendations that I happen to have published, with the following encouraging results: Emendations that substitute a good clausula for a bad one: 96a 18 στερον λγομεν for στερον λγομεν κb, στερον λεγον cet. 09b 5 αυτος φλκειν [δεν]. 48a 14 κλαστον τθεμεν [κα γκρατ κα σφρονα]. 63b 13 τν φιλαν [καθπερ ερηται]. 71a 35 ατν <δον εναι . (...) Emendations that substitute one good clausula for another: 97a 9 τ ατ τοτ for τ ατ τοτο γαθν κb, τ ατ or ατ τ γαθν cet. 25a 22 τν γαθν [κα γνοεν αυτν]. I may be pardoned for omitting my one or two alterations that substitute a bad clausula for a good one. My text adopts a MS. variant, or a conjecture of another scholar, similarly supported by Mr. Shewring's test in the following places: 99b 6, 02a 20, 10b 31, 15a 8, 20a 22, 20b 2, 22a 28, 32a 11, 33a 1, 34b 33, 50b 34, 53a 1, 59a 3, 61a 2, 63a 3, 64a 23, 66a 34, 75a 6, 79a 22. (shrink)

The following emendations, if sound, illustrate the relation between the two chief MSS. Kb shows a gloss that has ousted the true reading, while Lb has a conflation of the two: 1097b 14: τ δ αὒταρκες τίθεμεν μονούμενον ρκιον κα αρετν ποιε τν βον κα μηδενς νδε Lb: αρετν κα ρκιον Mb : Kb has αρετν alone. I suspect the true reading to be ρκιον alone. On this αρετν was a mistaken gloss: it is out of place here, as it (...) belongs to the concept τέλειον which was discussed in §§ 1–5 and to which we return below, τι δ πάντωναρετωτάτην μ συναριθμονμένην. The poetic ρκιον is used to explain ατ-αρκες, and is itself paraphrased κα μηδενς νδε. αύτ is explained by μονούμενον, just as b 9 ατ was explained by τ ντι βίον μονώτην. (shrink)

Terence Irwin's edition of the Nicomachean Ethics offers more aids to the reader than are found in any modern English translation. It includes an Introduction, headings to help the reader follow the argument, explanatory notes on difficult or important passages, and a full glossary explaining Aristotle's technical terms. The Third Edition offers additional revisions of the translation as well as revised and expanded versions of the notes, glossary, and Introduction. Also new is an appendix featuring translated selections from related texts (...) of Aristotle. (shrink)

An English language translation accompanies the original Greek text of Aristotle's book about the nature of the state, constitutions, revolutions, democracy, and oligarchy.

The New Evil Demon problem has been hotly debated since the case was introduced in the early 1980’s (e.g. Lehrer and Cohen 1983; Cohen 1984), and there seems to be recent increased interest in the topic. In a forthcoming collection of papers on the New Evil Demon problem (Dutant and Dorsch, forthcoming), at least two of the papers, both by prominent epistemologists, attempt to resist the problem by appealing to the distinction between justification and excuses. My primary aim here is (...) to critically evaluate this new excuse maneuver as a response to the New Evil Demon problem. -/- Their response attempts to give us reason to reject the idea that victims of the New Evil Demon have justification for believing as they do. I shall argue that this approach is ultimately unsuccessful, however much of value can be learned from these attempts. In particular, progress in the debate can be made by following those who advance the excuse maneuver and make explicit the connection between epistemic justification and epistemic norms. By doing so, the questions being debated are clarified, as is the methodology being used to attempt to answer them. (shrink)

There are various equivalent formulations of the Church-Turing thesis. A common one is that every effective computation can be carried out by a Turing machine. The Church-Turing thesis is often misunderstood, particularly in recent writing in the philosophy of mind.