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Michael T. Ferejohn
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Philosophy
mtf@duke.edu
Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
201B West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications
Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought
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November 2013
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The Diagnostic Function of Socratic Definitions
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2010
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Empiricism and the First Principles of Aristotelian Science
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March 2, 2009
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Empiricism and First Principles in Aristotle
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2009
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Knowledge, Recollection, and the Forms in Republic VII
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February 25, 2008
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Knowledge and the Forms in Plato
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November 30, 2007
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Knowledge and the Forms
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2007
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Knowledge and Recollection in the Middle Books of the Republic
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2006
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Logical and Physical Inquiries in Aristotle's Metaphysics
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The Modern Schoolman
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2003
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Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (Oxford 1998)
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The Philosophical Review
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April 2002
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Perception and Dialectic in De Anima B5
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1999
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Of G. Fine, On Ideas: Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Theory of Forms (Oxford 1993)
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Journal of the History of Philosophy
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1996
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Of R. McKirahan, Principle and Proofs: Aristotle’s Theory of Demonstrative Science (Princeton 1992)
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The Philosophical Review
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1994
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The Definition of Generated Composites in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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1994
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The Immediate Premises of Aristotelian Demonstration
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Ancient Philosophy
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1994
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Matter Definition, and Generation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
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1994
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Editors' introduction
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Synthese
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September 1, 1993
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The Origins of Aristotelian Science
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1991
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Plato and Aristotle on Negative Predication and Semantic Fragmentation
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Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
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1989
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Meno's Paradox and De Re Knowledge in Aristotle's Theory of Demonstration
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History of Philosophy Quarterly
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April 1988
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Of B. Aune, Metaphysics: The Elements
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The Philosophical Review
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January 1988
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Of S. Waterlow, Nature, Change, and Agency
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Review of Metaphysics
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December 1984
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Of S. Waterlow, Passage and Possibility
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Canadian Philosophical Reviews
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October 1984
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Socratic Virtue as the Parts of Itself
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
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March 1984
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Socratic Thought-Experiments and the Unity of Virtue Paradox
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Phronesis
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1984
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Definition and the Two Stages of Aristotelian Demonstration
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Review of Metaphysics
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December 1982
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The Unity of Virtue and the Object of Socratic Inquiry
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Journal of the History of Philosophy
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January 1982
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Aristotle on Necessary Truth and Logical Priority
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American Philosophical Quarterly
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October 1981
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Aristotle on Focal Meaning and the Unity of Science
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Phronesis
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1980
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