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    The Phoenix: Supplementary volume.J. H. Xenophanes & Lesher - 1952
    In this book, James Lesher presents the Greek texts of all the surviving fragments of Xenophanes' teachings, with an original English translation on facing pages, along with detailed notes and commentaries and a series of essays on the philosophical questions generated by Xenophanes' remarks.
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    Socrates' disavowal of knowledge.J. H. Lesher - 1987 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (2):275-288.
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    Perceiving and Knowing in the Iliad and Odyssey.J. H. Lesher - 1981 - Phronesis 26 (1):2-24.
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    The humanizing of knowledge in presocratic thought.J. H. Lesher - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA.
    This article explores Presocratic epistemology, arguing that divine revelation is replaced as a warrant for knowledge with naturalistic accounts of how and what we humans can know; thus replacing earlier Greek pessimism about knowledge with a more optimistic outlook that allows for human discovery of the truth. A review of the relevant fragments and testimonia shows that Xenophanes, Alcmaeon, Heraclitus, and Parmenides—even Pythagoras and Empedocles—all moved some distance away from the older “god-oriented” view of knowledge toward a more secular and (...)
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    Hume's analysis of "cause" and the 'two-definitions' dispute.J. H. Lesher - 1973 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 11 (3):387-392.
  6. Xenophanes on Inquiry and Discovery.J. H. Lesher - 1991 - Ancient Philosophy 11 (2):229-248.
    Fragment B 18 of Xenophanes is widely regarded as an early expression of a faith in human progress. I believe, however, that we should reconsider this 'progressivist' interpretation. Not only does it lack a firm foothold in the language of Fr. 18, its optimism is out of keeping with virtually everything else Xenophanes is known to have said or thought on the topic of human intelligence. If we had no viable alternative to the 'hymn to progress' reading we might be (...)
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  7. The Significance of "kata pant a<s>tê" [Greek] in Parmenides Fr. 1.3.J. H. Lesher - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (1):1-20.
    Fragment B 1 of Parmenides describes a youth's journey to the house of a goddess who enlightens him as to the nature of all things. The task of translating Parmenides' Greek text is beset with many difficulties, most notably the phrase kata pant' atê at B 1.3. There, the neuter accusative plural panta ('all things') combines with the feminine nominative singular atê (heavenly sent blindness') to render translation impossible. Some have proposed emending the text to read a<s>tê ('down to all (...)
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    Perceiving and Knowing in the Iliad and Odyssey.J. H. Lesher - 1981 - Phronesis 26 (1):2 - 24.
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    Saphêneia in Aristotle:'Clarity','Precision', and 'Knowledge'.J. H. Lesher - 2010 - Apeiron 43 (4):143-156.
  10. On Aristotelian Ἐπιστήμη as ‘Understanding’.J. H. Lesher - 2001 - Ancient Philosophy 21 (1):45-55.
    Myles Burnyeat maintains that Aristotelian epistêmê, in so far as it deals with explanations, is properly identified as understanding rather than as knowledge. Although Burnyeat is right in thinking that the cognitive achievement Aristotle typically has in mind is not justified true belief, Aristotelian epistêmê cannot be equated with understanding. On some occasions in Aristotle's writings (e.g. Apo 71a4), the term designates a particular science such as mathematics; on others (e.g. Apo 72b18-20), it designates the grasp of a first principle; (...)
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    Τὰ Πολλὰ Ἥσσω Νοῦ.J. H. Lesher - 2022 - Ancient Philosophy 42 (1):1-9.
    Diogenes Laertius reports that Xenophanes of Colophon said that τὰ πολλὰ ἥσσω νοῦ εἶναι— on one defensible translation: that ‘many things are weaker than mind.’ The remark has been interpreted in various ways, none of them entirely convincing. However, a review of the relevant fragments and ancient testimonia will provide the basis for a credible interpretation. Ultimately, it will emerge that the remark reflects Xenophanes’ understanding of the relationship between the divine mind and the cosmos.
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    On Aristotelian epistêmê as `Understanding'.J. H. Lesher - 2001 - Ancient Philosophy 21 (1):45-55.
    Myles Burnyeat maintains that Aristotelian epistêmê, in so far as it deals with explanations, is properly identified as understanding rather than as knowledge. Although Burnyeat is right in thinking that the cognitive achievement Aristotle typically has in mind is not justified true belief, Aristotelian epistêmê cannot be equated with understanding. On some occasions in Aristotle’s writings (e.g. Apo 71a4), the term designates a particular science such as mathematics; on others (e.g. Apo 72b18-20), it designates the grasp of a first principle; (...)
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  13. Xenophanes on Inquiry and Discovery.J. H. Lesher - 1991 - Ancient Philosophy 11 (2):229-248.
    In fragment B 18 (DK) Xenophanes asserts that ‘Not from the outset did the gods reveal all things to mortals’ but that ‘in time, as they seek, men discover better.’ The remark has been understood in different ways but is usually read as a rejection of the view of the gods as the givers of all good things and an expression of faith in the capacity of human beings to make progress through their own efforts. I argue that the ‘hymn (...)
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  14. On the Role of Guesswork in Science.J. H. Lesher - 1978 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 9 (1):19.
    Is there a place in scientific inquiry for guessing? Jonathan Cohen has recently argued that resorting to guesswork entails a loss of objectivity and regard for evidence which are essential to proper scientific investigation. I assess the merits of Cohen’s view first by taking as a test case Aristotle’s positive view of the role of guesswork (anchinoia) and conjecture (eustochia) in the search for the connections essential to the construction of scientific demonstrations. I then argue contra Cohen that one can (...)
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  15. The significance of κατά πάντ΄ ὰ́<s>τη in Parmenides fr 1.J. H. Lesher - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (1):1-20.
    Fragment B 1 of Parmenides describes a youth’s journey to the house of a goddess who enlightens him as to the nature of all things. The task of translating Parmenides’ Greek text is beset with many difficulties, most notably the phrase kata pant’ atê at B 1.3. There, the neuter accusative plural panta (‘all things’) combines with the feminine nominative singular atê (‘heaven sent blindness’) to render translation impossible. Some have proposed emending the text to read astê (‘down to all (...)
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  16. Some notable afterimages of Plato's symposium.J. H. Lesher - 2006 - In James H. Lesher, Debra Nails & Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield (eds.), Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Harvard University Press.
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    MacNeice the Heraclitean.J. H. Lesher - 2021 - Philosophy and Literature 45 (2):315-328.
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    Odysseás Elytis's Conversation with Heraclitus: "Of Ephesus".J. H. Lesher - 2020 - Philosophy and Literature 44 (2):226-236.
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    Verbs for Knowing in Heraclitus’ Rebuke of Hesiod.J. H. Lesher - 2016 - Ancient Philosophy 36 (1):1-12.
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    Just as in battle.J. H. Lesher - 2010 - Ancient Philosophy 30 (1):95-105.
  21. A note on the Simile of the Rout in the Posterior Analytics ii 19.J. H. Lesher - 2011 - Ancient Philosophy 31 (1):121-125.
    In Posterior Analytics II 19 Aristotle likens the way in which sense perception gives rise to knowledge of the universal to the way in which one soldier’s ceasing his flight from the enemy leads other soldiers to do the same ‘heôs epi archên êlthen.’ Although the remark seems intended to characterize knowledge as the end result of an accumulative process, the concluding reference to ‘a starting point’ or archê has no clear meaning. I argue that the phrase can be plausibly (...)
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  22. A systematic Xenophanes?J. H. Lesher - 2013 - In Joe McCoy & Charles H. Kahn (eds.), Early Greek philosophy: the Presocratics and the emergence of reason. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.
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    An Interdisciplinary Course on Classical Athens.J. H. Lesher - 1982 - Teaching Philosophy 5 (3):203-210.
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    Borges's Love Affair with Heraclitus.J. H. Lesher - 2017 - Philosophy and Literature 41 (1A):303-314.
    In an early poem, "Year's End", Jorge Luis Borges takes the turning of the year as an occasion to consider how "something in us" endures, despite the fact that we are products of "infinite random possibilities" and "droplets in the stream of Heraclitus": It is not the emblematic detail of replacing a two with a three, nor that barren metaphor that brings together a time that dies and another coming up nor yet the rounding out of some astronomical process that (...)
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    Comments on Tuominen,'Back to Posterior Analytics II 19: Aristotle on the Knowledge of Principles'.J. H. Lesher - 2010 - Apeiron 43 (2-3):145-154.
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    ‘Just as in battle’: The Simile of the Rout in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics ii 19.J. H. Lesher - 2010 - Ancient Philosophy 30 (1):95-105.
    In Posterior Analytics II 19 Aristotle compares the way in which sense perception gives rise to knowledge with the way in which one soldier’s ceasing his flight from the enemy leads other soldiers to do the same. Although the simile seems intended to characterize knowledge as the end result of an accumulative process, its concluding phrase ‘until it comes to the archê’ has no clear meaning. I argue that the phrase can be taken to refer not to the action of (...)
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    The Greek Philosophers: Selected Greek Texts from the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle.J. H. Lesher - 1998 - Bristol Classical Press.
    This study presents a collection of the influential Greek philosophical texts which provide a broad cross-section of ancient Greek thought. Full notes on the translation and the philosophical content are provided.
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    Aristotle. [REVIEW]J. H. Lesher - 1989 - Teaching Philosophy 12 (1):79-82.
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    Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. [REVIEW]J. H. Lesher - 1995 - Ancient Philosophy 15 (2):581-589.
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    Virtue in the Cave. [REVIEW]J. H. Lesher - 2002 - Ancient Philosophy 22 (2):418-422.
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    Virtue in the Cave. [REVIEW]J. H. Lesher - 2002 - Ancient Philosophy 22 (2):418-422.
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    Aristotle. [REVIEW]J. H. Lesher - 1989 - Teaching Philosophy 12 (1):79-82.
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    Xenophanes J. H. Lesher: Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments, a Text and Translation with a Commentary. (Phoenix Supplementary Vol. XXX, Presocratics Vol. IV.) Pp. xvi + 264. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1992. $50/£29.95. [REVIEW]F. R. Pickering - 1993 - The Classical Review 43 (02):232-233.
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    J. H. Lesher: The Greek Philosophers. Selected Greek Texts from the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. Pp. viii + 147. London: Duckworth, 1998. Paper, £8.95. ISBN: 1-85399-562-2. [REVIEW]F. Beetham - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (2):561-562.
  35. Arthur Child: Making And Knowing In Hobbes, Vico And Dewey.J. H. A. A. De & Staff - 1955 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 14 (53/54):445.
     
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  36. Divided existence and complex society: an historical approach. den Berg & H. J. - 1974 - Pittsburgh,: Duquesne University Press; distributed by Humanities Press [New York.
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  37. The phenomenological approach to psychiatry. den Berg & H. J. - 1955 - Springfield, Ill.,: Thomas.
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    The Place of Domesticated Spaces in Environmental Ethics.Roger J. H. King - 2003 - Social Philosophy Today 19:41-53.
    Environmental ethics has traditionally focused on a defense of the intrinsic value of animals and wild habitats. However, this ethical project needs to be supplemented by a consideration of the kind of culture that can take such an ethical point of view seriously. This essay argues that one component of an environmentally responsible culture is its domesticated environment. How we construct the domesticated environment has an impact on our perception of our own identities and our relations to wild nature. If (...)
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    The Place of Domesticated Spaces in Environmental Ethics.Roger J. H. King - 2003 - Social Philosophy Today 19:41-53.
    Environmental ethics has traditionally focused on a defense of the intrinsic value of animals and wild habitats. However, this ethical project needs to be supplemented by a consideration of the kind of culture that can take such an ethical point of view seriously. This essay argues that one component of an environmentally responsible culture is its domesticated environment. How we construct the domesticated environment has an impact on our perception of our own identities and our relations to wild nature. If (...)
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    Doodgaan is nog geen sterven.A. J. H. Thiadens - 1972 - [Baarn,: Het Wereldvenster. Edited by L. A. R. Bakker.
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    The Logic of a Subject.J. H. Gribble - 1969 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 1 (1):9-22.
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    Art After Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1966-1990.J. H. J. & Joseph Kosuth - 1992 - Philosophical Quarterly 42 (167):262.
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    Euripides, Electra 1093–5, a nd Some Uses of δικζειν.J. H. Kells - 1960 - Classical Quarterly 10 (1-2):129-.
    All commentators on these lines make two assumptions about the first clause, that means ‘sitting in judgement’, ‘punishing’, or the like, that the which is its subject as well as that of is the second in a series of two: the subsequent slaying punishes or sits in judgement on the previous; thus the slaying of Cly taemnestra herself will sit in judgement upon that of Agamemnon, just as that had sat in judgement upon the of Iphigenia. Then opinions differ as (...)
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    The effect of degree of order on the critical resolved shear stress for slip in Mg3Cd.J. H. Kirby & F. W. Noble - 1967 - Philosophical Magazine 16 (143):1009-1020.
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  45. Astronomy and Cosmogony.J. H. Jeans - 1928 - Humana Mente 3 (12):533-535.
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    Aeschylus, agamemnon 926-7.J. H. Kells - 1963 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 107 (1-2):311-312.
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    Aristophanes, Frogs 788–92.J. H. Kells - 1964 - The Classical Review 14 (03):232-235.
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    Demosthenes lv. 21.J. H. Kells - 1950 - The Classical Review 64 (02):46-51.
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    Euripides, Hippolytus 1009–16, and Greek Women's Property.J. H. Kells - 1967 - Classical Quarterly 17 (02):181-.
    Barrett finds lines 1010–15 difficult. He says that ‘hovers between “an heiress as my wife” and “marriage with an heiress”’, that ‘a Greek heiress did not inherit property as her own: it passed not to her but with her, to her husband and ultimately to her children.—In Attic law a widow was never : a man's property went to his legitimate children.
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    Sophocles, Electra 1243–57.J. H. Kells - 1966 - The Classical Review 16 (03):255-259.
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