:: publications ::

Books

Articles & book chapters

• 'Aristotle on the Scope and Unity of the De anima', in G. Van Riel and P. Destrée (eds.) Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle’s De anima, Leuven University Press. (2010): 167-181.
• 'Plotinus on Celestial Motion', In M. Achard, W. Hankey and J.-M. Narbonne, Perspectives sur le Néoplatonism. Laval University (2009): 51-62.
• 'The Pre-History of the Commentary Tradition: Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE. Prolegomena to a Study of Xenarchus of Seleucia', Laval théologique et philosophique 62.1 (2008): 7-28.
• Aristotele e la materia celeste, in M. Carrara, Mind and Meaning. Studi di filosofia analitica (Padova 2003).
• 'A Late Ancient Discussion of Celestial Motion. PSI XIV 1400', in Papiri filosofici. Miscellanea di studi IV (Firenze 2002).
  (Brief description: a study of PSI XIV 1400, a papyrus fragment to be placed in the context of the sixth-century debate on the stuff of the heavens. The edition, translation and commentary will be also published in the Corpus dei Papiri Filosofici Greci e Latini published by Olschki, Firenze).
• 'División, Definitión y Differencia en los Topicos', Anuario filosófico 35 (2002), pp. 297-312.
• 'Aristotle, Speusippus and the Method of Division', Classical Quarterly N.S. 50.2 (2000), pp. 402-414.
  [available in pdf version, 1.2 Mb]
• 'Senarco di Seleucia e la Dottrina Aristotelica della Quinta Sostanza', in C. Natali-S. Maso (eds.) Antiaristotelismo, (Amsterdam 1999), pp. 92-123.
• 'Aristotle Theory of Division', in R.R.K. Sorabji (ed.) Aristotle and After, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplementary Volume 68 (London 1997), pp. 127-146.
• 'Aristotle's Rules of Division in The Topics: Remarks on the Relationship between Genus and Differentia in a Division', Ancient Philosophy, 16 (1996), pp. 377-387.
  [available in pdf version, 749 Kb]
• 'Aristotele e le teorie sugli eventi', Métexis Revista Argentina de Filosofia Antigua/Argentine Journal of Ancient Philosophy, 7 (1994), pp. 91-103.

Encyclopedia articles

• The entry 'Aristotle, commentators' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 2005).
• The entry 'Aristotle on Causality' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (January 2006).

Dictionary entries

• Minor Socratics, for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Michael Gagarin (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Xenarchus of Seleucia and Postscript to Plato for the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Noretta Koertge (ed.), Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2008.
• The following entries for the Enciclopedia Filosofica, Bompiani, Milano, 2006.
  (Adrasto di Afrodisia, Andronico di Rodi; Aristocle di Messina; Clearco di Soli; Critolao; Diaresis; Epagoge; Differentia specifica; Etere; Fania; Prassifane; Pritanide; Quinta essentia; Predicabile; Satiro; Senarco; Stasea di Napoli; Strabone; Teodoro di Gadara; Tolomeo Peripatetico)
• Xenarchos [4], for Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike, Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2003.
• The following entries for The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, Bristol 2002.
  (Benn, Alfred William; Bussel, Frederick William; Chandler, Henry William; Macmahon, John Henry)

Book reviews

• Review of J. Mansfeld and D. T. Runia, Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer. Volume Two: The Compendium (2 vols), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.04.48.
• Review of Pseudo-Aristoteles (Pseudo-Alexander) Supplementa Problematorum, A. Kapetanaki and R. W. Sharples (eds.), in Aestimatio 6 (2009): 52-58.
• Critical Note of Aristote, De la génération et la corruption. Texte établi et traduit par Marwan Rashed, Les Belles Lettres 2005, in Rhizai. A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Science 4.1 (2007): 163-175
• Review of S. Gersh and D. Moran, Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, University of Notre Dame Press 2006, in The Review of Metaphysics 61.1 (2007): 17-19
• Review of O. Bruun and L. Corti (eds.) Les Catégories et leur histoire, Vrin 2005, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007): 245-246
• Review of F. de Haas and J. Mansfeld (eds.) Aristotle’s Generation and Corruption, Book 1, Oxford University Press 2004, in Ancient Philosophy 27 (2007): 200-205
• Review of Richard Kraut (ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Blackwell Publishing, 2006 in The Classical Review 57.2 (2007): 324-325
• Review of Monica Ugaglia Modelli idrostatici di moto da Aristotele a Galileo, Lateran University Press 2004, in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2006): 415-418
• Review of Jonathan Barnes, 'Porphyry. Introduction', Oxford University Press 2003, in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2006): 462-466.
• Joint review of Diana Quarantotto, 'Causa finale, sostanza, essenza in Aristotele.', Bibliopolis Press 2005, and Monte Ransome Johnson, 'Aristotle on Teleology', Oxford University Press 2005, in Rhizai. A journal of Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Science III 1 (2006): 171-178.
• Review of Vasilis Politis, 'Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics', Routledge, London and New York 2004, in The Classical Review 56.2 (2006): 303-306.
• Review of Ursula Coope, 'Time for Aristotle', Oxford University Press 2005, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006.04.01.
• Review of Thomas Kjeller Johansen, 'Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias', Cambridge University Press 2004, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005.03.01.
• (together with Peter Machamer) Review of Michael F. Wagner (ed.), 'Neoplatonism and Nature: Studies in Plotinus' Enneads', SUNY 2002, in The Review of Metaphysics, 56 (2003): 688-690.

afalcon@alcor.concordia.ca