Christopher Shields
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3602067 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher Shields |
| NOMBRES | Christopher |
| APELLIDO | Shields |
| FIRMA | SHIELDS C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7178-9537 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Narrative Determination
The traditional problem of free will has reached an impasse; we are unlikely to see progress without rethinking the terms in which the problem had been cast. Our approach offers an alternative to the standard terms of the debate, by developing an authorially parameterized approach articulated within a two-dimensional semantics for temporal predicates
Philosophy before Socrates
Hellenistic philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
In Ancient Philosophy (2012), Christopher Shields expanded on the coverage of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in his earlier book, Classical Philosophy (2003), to include the philosophy of the Hellenistic era. In this new edition (2023), Shields reaches even further to include material on Neoplatonism and on Augustine and Proclus, capturing—from Thales of Miletus to the end of the sixth century CE—all of what might be called ancient philosophy. It…
Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, in ancient philosophy but also in later periods and in systematic philosophy. The contributors discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond. The editors offer an introduction charting the scholarly contributions of Fine and Irwin and assessing th…
Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin in the history of philosophy. They discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond
Chapter 6. Mind and Motion in Aristotle
Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge
Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' …
Clarendon Aristotle Series
The Philosophy of Aquinas
Aristotle
The Summum Bonum in Aristotle’s Ethics
Aristotle expressly defends eudaimonia as the summum bonum for human beings (EN 1094a21–2), which good he characterizes as a complete, final, and intrinsic good, and as the source and cause of the goodness of all good things subordinate to it (EN 1094a1–21, 1097a26–33, 1097b6–16, 1102a4). Still, in another breath, he roundly criticizes Plato for holding a very similar view. How does Aristotle differentiate his summum bonum from the good which is …
The science of soul in Aristotle’s Ethics
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The relationship between transformational teaching and adolescent physical activity
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which transformational teaching, exhibited by secondary school physical education teachers, predicts within-class physical activity and leisure-time physical activity among adolescents. The study used a prospective observational design and involved data collected from 874 Grade 10 adolescents ( Mage = 15.41, ( SD) = .61). Through use of structural equation modeling, the results revealed that …
Plato’s Divided Soul
Aristotle
In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics, and the arts. Beginning with a brief biography, Shields carefully explains the fundamental elements of Aristotle’s thought: his explanatory framework, his philosophical methodo…
The Phainomenological Method in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
It is understandable that those wishing to characterize Aristotle’s philosophical method have looked for guidance almost without exception to a passage in Nicomachean Ethics vii 1, where he prefaces his discussion of the puzzling phenomenon of akrasia (weakness of will) with an uncharacteristic methodological preamble. In this preamble, Aristotle contends, “We must set out the appearances (phainomena) and run through all the puzzles regarding the…
Being Qua Being
According to Aristotle, there is a science (epistêmê) that studies being qua being, and the attributes belonging to it in its own right. This claim, which opens Metaphysics IV 1, is both surprising and unsettling—surprising because Aristotle seems elsewhere to deny the existence of any such science, and unsettling because his denial seems very plausibly grounded. He claims that each science studies a unified genus, but denies that there is a sing…
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
This book reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from across the globe, and including a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. It explores the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today, including the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contempo…
The dialectic of life
Plato's divided soul
Plato's reason for introducing a tripartite soul into the Republic pertains to the overarching goals of that work: Plato wishes to establish the nature of justice and thereby to show why an individual might wish to be just rather than unjust. In saying that the soul had appeared to the interlocutors of the Republic to be composite, Plato is evidently alluding to the argument for the tripartition of the soul in Book 4 of the Republic. Plato's argu…
Surpassing in Dignity and Power
Effects of a Print-mediated Intervention on Physical Activity during Transition to the First Year of University
Transition to the first year of university is linked to steep declines in moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a targeted, theory-driven, print-based intervention on MVPA during transition to university. Volunteer participants from five Canadian universities (n=255) completed measures of MVPA at the start of their first semester at university and were randomly assigned to conditio…
Ancient Philosophy
In this re-titled and substantially revised update of his Classical Philosophy (2003), Christopher Shields expands his coverage to include the Hellenistic era, and now offers an introduction to more than 1,000 years of ancient philosophy. From Thales and other Pre-Socratics through Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and on to Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, Ancient Philosophy traces the important connections between these periods and individ…
Youth and Adolescent Physical Activity Lapsers
The present study examined whether self-efficacy mediates the relationship between family social influence and physical activity among youth who have experienced a recent lapse in their physical activity participation. Using a prospective, longitudinal design, participants completed measures of social influence, self-regulatory efficacy and physical activity. Only those participants whose physical activity declined were retained for further analy…
Limiting Exercise Options
We examined the influence of proxy-assistance on exercisers' social cognitions and behavior. Fifty-six fitness class participants reported preference for proxy-assistance and reacted to exercising in different contexts. A 2 (proxy-led vs self-managed exercise context) by 2 (preferred assistance) MANOVA revealed significant assistance by context interactions for self-regulatory efficacy (SRE) and difficulty. Regarding self-managed exercise, high-a…
Preferring Proxy-agency
We examined: (a) the social-cognitions of those who differ in preferred level of proxy-assistance in both proxy-led and independent exercise contexts; and (b) the relationships between proxy-agency and reliance. Sixty-five fitness class participants completed measures of self-regulatory efficacy, task self-efficacy, exercise intentions, proxy-efficacy and perceived reliance. A 2 (exercise context) by 2 (preferred assistance) MANOVA revealed signi…
The dialectic of life
Interactive Effects of Exercise Status and Observer Gender on the Impressions Formed of Men
Mind and Imagination in Aristotle
Soul as Subject in Aristotle's De Anima
In the largely historical and aporetic first book of the De Anima (DA) , Aristotle makes what appear to be some rather disturbing remarks about the soul's status as a subject of mental states. Most notably, in a curious passage which has aroused the interest of commentators, he seems to suggest that there is something wrong with regarding the soul as a subject of mental states: Thus, saying that the soul is angry is the same as if one were to say…
Aristotle
Soul as Subject in Aristotle's De Anima
In the largely historical and aporetic first book of the De Anima (DA) , Aristotle makes what appear to be some rather disturbing remarks about the soul's status as a subject of mental states. Most notably, in a curious passage which has aroused the interest of commentators, he seems to suggest that there is something wrong with regarding the soul as a subject of mental states: Thus, saying that the soul is angry is the same as if one were to say…
Aristotle
Aristotle
The First Functionalist
Aristotle's First Principles
Aristotle De Anima (On the Soul)
Mind and Imagination in Aristotle
Aristotle on Substance
The Homonymy of the Body in Aristotle
L'affirmation d'Aristote qu'un corps mort est l'homonyme d'un vrai corps, c'est-a-dire d'un corps fonctionnel, peut-elle se comprendre dans le cadre de sa philosophie?
The Truth Evaluability of Stoic Phantasiai
T]he Truth Evaluability of Stoic Phantasiai : Adversus Mathematicos VII 242-46 CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS ORTHODOX STOICS ENDORSE each of the following propositions: (1) Phantasiai are true or false (i.e., are truth evaluable). (AM VII ~42-46 = SVF II 65 = LS 39 G, 3oF) ' (a) Only ax/6mata are true or false (i.e., are truth evaluable). (AM VIII.74 = SVF II.187 = LS 34B; cf. Stobaeus II.88 = SVF III 171 = LS 33 I, and Sextus, AM VII 151-57 = LS 4aC) (3) …
The Origins of Aristotelian Science
Colloquium 9
Aristotle pursues an extended analogy between VÓ71Cí' and aïeï671Cí' , only to abandon it, rather abruptly, when turning to the question of their material realizations. He thinks that the aiu8-qnK.ólI employs various sensory organs in effecting its operations; and he accordingly investi- gates the material causes of sensation both in the De Anima and the more empirically oriented Parva Naturalia. He claims that the vo- 71T&KÓlI, by contrast, lack…
Aristotle's Theory of Material Substance
This book offers an original account of one of Aristotle's central doctrines, his theory of material substance. Gad Freudenthal argues that Aristotle's concept of heat is a crucial but hitherto ignored part of this account. Aristotle's 'canonical', four-element theory of matter fails to explain the coming-to-be of material substances (the way matter becomes organised) and their persistence (why substances do not disintegrate into their components…
The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy
"The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive treatment of the principal figures and movements of philosophy from its origins before Socrates, through the towering achievements of Plato and Aristotle, and into its final developments in late antiquity." "Authored by a cast of distinguished philosophers, this collection offers in-depth, accessible essays on the Presocratics, the Sophistic Movement, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, …
Order in Multiplicity
Aristotle regularly identifies philosophical and scientific concepts as homonymous; indeed, his preoccupation with homonymy influences his approach to many subjects and clearly structures his philosophical methodology. In this book, Christopher Shields offers the first full‐length investigation of homonymy in Aristotle's work, in which he explicates and assesses Aristotle's commitment to homonymy in both critical and constructive contexts. Shield…
The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy
Classical Philosophy
Classical Philosophy is a comprehensive examination of early philosophy from the presocratics through to Aristotle. The aim of the book is to provide an explanation and analysis of the ideas that flourished at this time and considers their relevance both to the historical development of philosophy and to contemporary philosophy today. From these ideas we can see the roots of arguments in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and political philosophy.…
Metaphysics Book B and K 1-2
Book Review| April 01 2003 Metaphysics Book B and K 1-2 Aristotle, Metaphysics Book B and K 1-2. Trans. Arthur Madigan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xl, 185. Christopher Shields Christopher Shields Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (2): 251–253. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-2-251 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Order in Multiplicity
Plato on Parts and Wholes
Book Review| April 01 2005 Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure Verity Harte, Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 311. Christopher Shields Christopher Shields Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 273–277. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-2-273 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Preferring Proxy-agency
We examined: (a) the social-cognitions of those who differ in preferred level of proxy-assistance in both proxy-led and independent exercise contexts; and (b) the relationships between proxy-agency and reliance. Sixty-five fitness class participants completed measures of self-regulatory efficacy, task self-efficacy, exercise intentions, proxy-efficacy and perceived reliance. A 2 (exercise context) by 2 (preferred assistance) MANOVA revealed signi…
Forcing Goodness in Plato's Republic
Among the instances of apparent illiberality in Plato's Republic , one stands out as especially curious. Long before making a forced return to the cave, and irrespective of the kinds of compulsion operative in such a homecoming, the philosopher-king has been compelled to apprehend the Good ( Rep . VII.519c5-d2, 540a3-7). Why should compulsion be necessary or appropriate in this situation? Schooled intensively through the decades for an eventual g…
Unified Agency And Akrasia In Platos Republic
This chapter argues that Plato does and does not disagree with the Socrates of the Protagoras . While he accepts, as all must, that what is called implementation failure is possible, Plato continues to maintain that narrow akrasia , the sort which earns Socrates’ ire is impossible. The Socrates of Republic IV is standing on guard against the Socrates of the Protagoras , who had insisted in uncompromising terms upon the incompatibility of narrow a…
Interactive Effects of Exercise Status and Observer Gender on the Impressions Formed of Men
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