Plato’s Sophist Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium Platonicum Pragense Edited by Aleš Havlíček and Filip Karfík prague 2011

Researchgate.net, 2022

We often come upon the word sophistry, to indicate the use of fallacious arguments leading to a false and misleading conclusion. It is usually implied that this is done intentionally. We should all be on the watch for such arguments, as they are quite common today in the world of politics and even in the world of science, especially in politically charged science, such as climate change. While sophistry has its negative meaning and connotations today, the Sophists of ancient Greece were a select group of intellectuals and professional educators who offered instruction in many subjects, such as public speaking and the successful conduct of life.

The survival of certain sophists and orators of the Second Sophistic (Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides, Hermogenes, Aelian) and the eclipse of others (Polemo, Herodes Atticus) as indications of Byzantine preferences.

Encyclopedia of educational theory and philosophy (ed. D.C. Phillips), 2014

Socialism and Democracy, 2022

Callahan: Social disintegration and immiseration continue apace with a corresponding intellectual disarray. Reasons to abolish capitalism multiply daily, while Reason is treated as if it were a devious plot. How did we arrive at this juncture and what tools do we have to both apprehend reality and organize collectively to change it? Since the late 1970s, as the last waves of revolution receded, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and identity-based radicalism positioned themselves not only as the best means by which to challenge authority and bring about change, but more specifically, to criticize Marx and Engels and the presumed failures of the revolutions of the last century. It is no accident that philosophy, science and rational thought have also been targeted since they were the very means these revolutions employed to achieve their ends. Meanwhile, the capitalist juggernaut advances unimpeded by such critical theory, indeed capitalism appears to thrive on it. The resulting confusion nonetheless provides an opportunity to reexamine fundamental premises and definitions. I asked Helena Sheehan for this interview because her formal training in philosophy combines with her years of active political engagement to offer a perspective from which to assess our current dilemmas.

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2000

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2000

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Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition, 2014