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    Life's Dominion.Melissa Lane & Ronald Dworkin - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (176):413.
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  2. When the experts are uncertain: Scientific knowledge and the ethics of democratic judgment.Melissa Lane - 2014 - Episteme 11 (1):97-118.
    Can ordinary citizens in a democracy evaluate the claims of scientific experts? While a definitive answer must be case by case, some scholars have offered sharply opposed general answers: a skeptical versus an optimistic. The article addresses this basic conflict, arguing that a satisfactory answer requires a first-order engagement in judging the claims of experts which both skeptics and optimists rule out in taking the issue to be one of second-order assessments only. Having argued that such first-order judgments are necessary, (...)
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  3. The ethics of scientific communication under uncertainty.Robert O. Keohane, Melissa Lane & Michael Oppenheimer - 2014 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 13 (4):343-368.
    Communication by scientists with policy makers and attentive publics raises ethical issues. Scientists need to decide how to communicate knowledge effectively in a way that nonscientists can understand and use, while remaining honest scientists and presenting estimates of the uncertainty of their inferences. They need to understand their own ethical choices in using scientific information to communicate to audiences. These issues were salient in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with respect to possible sea level rise (...)
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    Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living.Melissa S. Lane - 2011 - Princeton University Press.
    "This edition of Eco-Republic is published by arrangement with Peter Lang Ltd; first published in 2011 by Peter Lang Ltd"--T.p. verso.
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    Placing Plato in the history of liberty.Melissa Lane - 2018 - History of European Ideas 44 (6):702-718.
    ABSTRACTThis paper explores and reevaluates the place of Plato in the history of liberty. In the first half, reevaluating the view that he invents a concept of ‘positive liberty’ in the Republic, I argue for two claims: that he does not do so, insofar as this is not the way that virtuous psychological self-mastery in the Republic is understood, and that the Republic works primarily with the inverse concept of slavery, relying on entrenched Greek ideas about the badness of the (...)
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    Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind.Melissa S. Lane, Professor Melissa Lane & Melissa Lane - 2015 - Bloomsbury Publishing.
    Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual. And visions of Plato have proliferated at the heart of (...)
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    Argument and agreement in Plato's Crito.Melissa S. Lane - 1998 - History of Political Thought 19 (3):313-330.
    It is argued that the Crito hinges on the relation between words and deeds. Socrates sets out a standard of agreement reached through persuasive argument or words. In this case the argument is deliberative: a general shared principle (do not do wrong) is juxtaposed to a particular minor premise (this act of escape is wrong) to reach a conclusion (do not escape). Crito baulks at the perception of the minor premise. At this juncture the Laws of Athens are introduced, who (...)
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    God or orienteering? A critical study of Taylor's sources of the self.Melissa Lane - 1992 - Ratio 5 (1):46-56.
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    II—Plato on the Value of Knowledge in Ruling.Melissa Lane - 2018 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 92 (1):49-67.
    This paper transposes for evaluation in relation to the concerns of Plato’s Politicus a claim developed by Verity Harte in the context of his Philebus, that ‘external imposition of a practical aim would in some way corrupt paideutic [philosophical] knowledge’. I argue that the Politicus provides a case for which the Philebus distinction may not allow: ruling, or statecraft, as embodying a form of knowledge that can be answerable to practical norms in a way that does not necessarily subordinate or (...)
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    Ancient political philosophy.Melissa Lane - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    The Evolution of eirōneia in Classical Greek Texts: Why Socratic eirōneia is Not Socratic Irony.Melissa Lane - 2006 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31:49-83.
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    The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter.Melissa Lane - 2014 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
    A lively and accessible introduction to the Greek and Roman origins of our political ideas In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of our political concepts from Socrates to Plutarch to Cicero, Lane reminds us that the birth of politics was a story as much of individuals as (...)
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    Doing Our Own Thinking for Ourselves: On Quentin Skinner's Genealogical Turn.Melissa Lane - 2012 - Journal of the History of Ideas 73 (1):71-82.
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    The Origins of the Statesman–Demagogue Distinction in and after Ancient Athens.Melissa Lane - 2012 - Journal of the History of Ideas 73 (2):179-200.
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    Politics as Architectonic Expertise? Against Taking the So-called ‘Architect’ (ἀρχιτέκτων) in Plato’s Statesman to Prefigure this Aristotelian View.Melissa Lane - 2020 - Polis 37 (3):449-467.
    This article rejects the claim made by other scholars that Plato in the Statesman, by employing the so-called ‘architect’ (ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων) in one of the early divisions leading to the definition of political expertise, prefigured and anticipated the architectonic conception of political expertise advanced by Aristotle. It argues for an alternative reading in which Plato in the Statesman, and in the only other of his works (Gorgias) in which the word appears, closely tracks the existing social role of the architektōn, (...)
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  16. States of nature, epistemic and political.Melissa Lane - 1999 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 99 (2):211–224.
    The paper asks what is living in political state-of-nature approaches, and answers by way of considering recent epistemic uses of state-of-nature arguments. Using Edward Craig's idea that a concept of knowledge can be explicated from the need for good informants, I argue that a concept of authority can be explicated from a parallel need for good practical informants. But this need not justify rule of a Platonic elite. Practically relevant epistemic advantages are more likely to be secured by the political (...)
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  17. Honesty as the best policy : Nietzsche on redlichkeit and the contrast between stoic and epicurean strategies of the self.Melissa Lane - 2007 - In Mark Bevir, Jill Hargis & Sara Rushing (eds.), Histories of Postmodernism. Routledge.
     
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    Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism.Verity Harte & Melissa Lane - 1999 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2 (1):157-172.
  19. Political philosophy: The view from cambridge.Quentin Skinner, Partha Dasgupta, Raymond Geuss, Melissa Lane, Peter Laslett, Onora O'Neill, W. G. Runciman & Andrew Kuper - 2002 - Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (1):1–19.
    This article reports on a conversation convened by Quentin Skinner at the invitation of the Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy and held in Cambridge on 13 February 2001.
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  20. Pyrrhonism and Protagoreanism: Catching Sextus out?Verity Harte & Melissa Lane - 1999 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2.
    Prima facie, the sceptical procedure described in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism I is committed to a gap between appearance and reality, that is, to the possibility that reality is other than it appears. But the Pyrrhonist is keen to avoid having commitments. In this paper, we consider whether the Pyrrhonist is indeed so committed; what, more precisely, the commitment might be; and whether it is the kind of commitment which can be dislodged in the way the Pyrrhonist advertises as (...)
     
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    Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?Melissa Lane - 1999 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 16 (2):119 - 142.
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    Comparing Greek and Chinese Political Thought: The Case of Plato’s Republic.Melissa Lane - 2009 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 36 (4):585-601.
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    (1 other version)Response to comments: Of Rule and Office: Plato’s ideas of the political.Melissa Lane - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
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    The Utopianism of Hamilton's State of Needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politics.Melissa Lane - 2006 - South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (3):242-248.
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    Does Rational Ignorance Imply Smaller Government, or Smarter Democratic Innovation?Melissa Lane - 2015 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 27 (3):350-361.
    Ilya Somin argues that in light of the public's rational political ignorance we should make government smaller. But his account of the phenomenon of rational ignorance does not justify his policy prescription of smaller government; on the contrary, it implies that we should revamp the current framework of democratic institutions. This is because, since Somin fails to set out a principled basis on which to value democracy even in the face of rational ignorance, he cannot explain why we should want (...)
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    Greek and Roman political ideas.Melissa Lane - 2014 - New York: Pelican, an imprint of Penguin Books.
    Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of King's College. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of classics, and the historian Richard Tuck called her book Eco-Republic 'a virtuoso performance by one of our best scholars of ancient philosophy.'.
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    Maps.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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    Reference List and Abbreviations.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 341-356.
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    Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy.Verity Harte & Melissa Lane (eds.) - 2013 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politics, the practice of politics in Plato and Proclus, the politics of value in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and the (...)
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  30. Virtue as the Love of Knowledge in Plato's Symposium and Republic'.Melissa Lane - 2007 - In Myles Burnyeat & Dominic Scott (eds.), Maieusis: essays in ancient philosophy in honour of Myles Burnyeat. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 44--67.
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    Plato’s Statesman: a Philosophical Discussion.Panos Dimas, Melissa Lane & Susan Sauvé Meyer (eds.) - 2021 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    "Plato's Statesman reconsiders many questions familiar to readers of the Republic: questions in political theory - such as the qualifications for the leadership of a state and the best from of constitution (politeia) - as well as questions of philosophical methodology and epistemology. Instead of the theory of Forms that is the centrepiece of the epistemology of the Republic, the emphasis here is on the dialectical practice of collection and division (diairesis), in whose service the interlocutors also deploy the ancillary (...)
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    Acknowledgements.Melissa Lane - 2011 - In Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living. Princeton University Press. pp. 325-326.
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    Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos by George Duke.Melissa Lane - 2021 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 59 (2):329-330.
    In this excellent book, drawing on previously published articles, George Duke gathers the scattered threads of Aristotle's discussions of law while defending clear stances in the various philosophical debates they have engendered. The book works within Aristotelian methodology and metaphysics, developing the view that a politeia should be understood as a formal cause that is worked out in terms of the successive definitions offered in book III of Politics. Building on studies of the evolution of the meaning of nomos and (...)
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    Athens Map Key.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 332-332.
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    An Unconsciously Platonic Prologue to Chapter 2: Carbon Detox.Melissa Lane - 2011 - In Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living. Princeton University Press. pp. 27-28.
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    Brief Biographies of Key Persons, Events and Places.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 333-340.
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    Contents.Melissa Lane - 2011 - In Melissa S. Lane (ed.), Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living. Princeton University Press.
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    CHAPTER 2. Constitution.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 57-92.
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    CHAPTER 5. Citizenship.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 181-214.
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    CHAPTER 6. Cosmopolitanism.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 215-240.
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    CHAPTER 3. Democracy.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 93-128.
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    CONCLUSION. Futures of Greek and Roman Pasts.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 313-324.
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    CHAPTER 1. Justice.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 25-56.
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    CHAPTER 7. Republic.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 241-284.
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    CHAPTER 8. Sovereignty.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 285-312.
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    CHAPTER 4. Virtue.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 129-180.
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  47. Doctoral Scientists and Engineers a Decade of Change.Melissa J. Lane - 1988 - National Science Foundation.
     
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    Experiences of Philosophy: An American Perspective.Melissa Lane - 1991 - Women in Philosophy Newsletter 4:5-6.
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    « emplois pour philosophes » : l'art politique et l'étranger dans le politique à la lumière de Socrate et du philosophe dans le Théétète.Melissa Lane - 2005 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 3 (3):325-345.
    Cet article examine les relations entre deux dialogues tardifs de Platon à partir de la notion de juste mesure. Dans le Politique, cette notion intervient dans le cadre d’une distinction entre deux types de métrétiques, dont l’Étranger renvoie toutefois la discussion détaillée à une autre occasion. La thèse ici défendue est que cette autre occasion est le Philèbe, dont l’argumentation complexe peut être lue comme une clarification de la notion de mesure. Ce rapprochement permet d’éclairer deux aspects importants du Politique (...)
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    Figures.Melissa Lane - 2014 - In The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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