Thomas Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Danish Library |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9122-3861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interventive Interviewing Revisited: An Updated Framework
Interventive interviewing is a methodology that guides professionals in generating helpful questions for clients. It is grounded in systemic and social constructionist ways of thinking and has been useful in both clinical and organizational settings. The first part of this paper reviews the original work on this approach in systemic therapy and some adjustments that were made when it was applied in organizational consulting and coaching. The seco…
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê
This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out the ancient debates about technê from the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers, through Plato and Aristotle and the Hellenistic age (Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics), ending in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Amongst the many themes that come…
Aristotle on the Logos of the Craftsman
Aristotle thinks that an account, a logos , of some sort is characteristic of craft, technē . Some scholars think that the logos element of technē is tagged onto experience as a theoretical element not directly engaged in successful production: I argue instead that the logos grounds the productive ability of craft, and also that is practically orientated in a way that distinguishes it from the logos of theoretical science. Understanding the logos…
A Triptych in Plato's Timaeus: A Note on the Receptacle Passage ( Timaeus 48e–52d)
At Timaeus 48e2–52d4 Timaeus sets out to establish that there are three principles or kinds (γένη) underlying the creation of the cosmos, not just the two he acknowledged earlier (27d–28a). The way he does so is not simply by adding an account of the third kind to the accounts of being and becoming that he has already given. Rather he does so by showing how each of the three differs from the others. It has not been noticed how this procedure stru…
Why the Cosmos Needs a Craftsman: Plato, Timaeus 27d5-29b1
In his opening speech, Timaeus ( Timaeus 27d5-29b1) argues that the cosmos must be the product of a craftsman looking to an eternal paradigm. Yet his premises seem at best to justify only that the world could have been made by such a craftsman. This paper seeks to clarify Timaeus’ justification for his stronger conclusion. It is argued that Timaeus sees a necessary role for craftsmanship as a cause that makes becoming like being
The Platonic Art of Philosophy
This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the pr…
The Powers of Aristotle's Soul
Thomas Kjeller Johansen presents a new account of Aristotle's major work on psychology, the De Anima. He argues that Aristotle explains a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to the soul's capacities, and considers how Aristotle adopts and adapts this theory in his later works.
Norms and situational rules of address in English and Norwegian speakers
From Plato’s Timaeus To Aristotle’s De Caelo: The Case Of The Missing World Soul
The Timaeus is the natural reference point for the kind of natural philosophy Aristotle seeks to develop. This chapter characterizes the relationship between the cosmologies of the De caelo and the Timaeus by comparing the general scopes and subject matters of the two works, and, then, by focusing on, the apparent absence in the De caelo of the world soul, which was one of the most important features of Plato's cosmology. One might then argue tha…
The Soul as an Inner Principle of Change: The Basis of Aristotle's Psychological Naturalism
This chapter examines Aristotle's claim that the soul is an inner principle of change, against the background of his account in the Physics of nature as an inner principle of change. That for Aristotle, the study of the soul is part of the study of nature is clear already from the opening lines of the De anima, where he announces that ‘knowledge of the soul seems to contribute greatly to all truth but most of all the truth in relation to nature: …
Colloquium 7: In Defense of Inner Sense: Aristotle on Perceiving that One Sees
Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias
Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of …
Dialogue and dialectic
The Timaeus-Critias, like Plato's other works, is commonly referred to as a dialogue. Yet from 29d6 to the end, that is to say for about five-sixths of the text, the Timaeus takes the form of a monologue, and roughly the same holds for the Critias. There are other Platonic dialogues which contain long, uninterrupted speeches, for example, the Apology and the Laws. Yet there is, with the possible exception of the Menexenus, no other work that to s…
Body, Soul, and Tripartition in Plato’S Timaeus
From the Phaedo we are familiar with the view of the body as a sort of prison for the soul. The body disrupts the proper workings of the soul, giving rise to irrationality in an essentially rational immortal soul. Embodiment is represented as a punishment for the soul. As Socrates puts it, ‘the philosopher’s soul utterly despises his body and flees from it, seeking to be alone by itself’ (65 o). If this is our only impression of Plato’s view of t…
Truth, Lies and History in Plato's Timaeus-Critias
Aristotle on the Sense Organs
Aristotle on the Sense-Organs
This book offers an important study of Aristotle's theory of the sense-organs. It aims to answer two questions central to Aristotle's psychology and biology: why does Aristotle think we have sense-organs, and why does he describe the sense-organs in the way he does? The author looks at all the Aristotelian evidence for the five senses and shows how pervasively Aristotle's accounts of the sense-organs are motivated by his interest in form and func…
Aristotle on the Sense of Smell
Etude de la conception de l'odeur et de l'odorat developpee par Aristote dans le traite «De anima» (II, 9). Definissant les sens par leur objet propre, Aristote tente de distinguer les differentes sortes d'odeurs par analogie avec les differentes sortes de saveurs propres au gout. L'A. montre que, contrairement au gout, l'odorat est un sens mediat dans la methodologie mixte d'Aristote
Now We've Got It’: Danish Treasure-Hunting Legends Seen from a Structural Point of View
Analyse structurale des legendes des chasseurs de tresor ou sont mis en scene le « chasseur » et le gardien. Six types de legendes sont degages et analyses : (1) echec pour le « chasseur » mais la localisation du tresor est decouverte par hasard, (2) echec pour le « chasseur » mais la « chasse » est intentionnelle , (3) succes du « chasseur » mais ayant viole des interdits ce dernier connait certains troubles, (4) succes du « chasseur » qui a rec…
Malefactor and Antagonist: A Study in Aetiological Legend Structures
AETIOLOGY means the accounting for something remarkable and/or unusual which for some reason demands an explanation, an explanation which is arrived at with the help of fantasy.' Aetiological legends, then, are a well-defined type of legend, and the material is very extensive. This cannot be wondered at, as human curiosity has always prompted the endeavour to give an explanation of the origin of remarkable objects in our vicinity. In dealing with…
Norms and situational rules of address in English and Norwegian speakers
Aristotle on the Logos of the Craftsman
Aristotle thinks that an account, a logos , of some sort is characteristic of craft, technē . Some scholars think that the logos element of technē is tagged onto experience as a theoretical element not directly engaged in successful production: I argue instead that the logos grounds the productive ability of craft, and also that is practically orientated in a way that distinguishes it from the logos of theoretical science. Understanding the logos…
Why the Cosmos Needs a Craftsman: Plato, Timaeus 27d5-29b1
In his opening speech, Timaeus ( Timaeus 27d5-29b1) argues that the cosmos must be the product of a craftsman looking to an eternal paradigm. Yet his premises seem at best to justify only that the world could have been made by such a craftsman. This paper seeks to clarify Timaeus’ justification for his stronger conclusion. It is argued that Timaeus sees a necessary role for craftsmanship as a cause that makes becoming like being
Malefactor and Antagonist: A Study in Aetiological Legend Structures
AETIOLOGY means the accounting for something remarkable and/or unusual which for some reason demands an explanation, an explanation which is arrived at with the help of fantasy.' Aetiological legends, then, are a well-defined type of legend, and the material is very extensive. This cannot be wondered at, as human curiosity has always prompted the endeavour to give an explanation of the origin of remarkable objects in our vicinity. In dealing with…
Malefactor and Antagonist: A Study in Aetiological Legend Structures
AETIOLOGY means the accounting for something remarkable and/or unusual which for some reason demands an explanation, an explanation which is arrived at with the help of fantasy.' Aetiological legends, then, are a well-defined type of legend, and the material is very extensive. This cannot be wondered at, as human curiosity has always prompted the endeavour to give an explanation of the origin of remarkable objects in our vicinity. In dealing with…
Now We've Got It’: Danish Treasure-Hunting Legends Seen from a Structural Point of View
Analyse structurale des legendes des chasseurs de tresor ou sont mis en scene le « chasseur » et le gardien. Six types de legendes sont degages et analyses : (1) echec pour le « chasseur » mais la localisation du tresor est decouverte par hasard, (2) echec pour le « chasseur » mais la « chasse » est intentionnelle , (3) succes du « chasseur » mais ayant viole des interdits ce dernier connait certains troubles, (4) succes du « chasseur » qui a rec…
Aristotle on the Sense of Smell
Etude de la conception de l'odeur et de l'odorat developpee par Aristote dans le traite «De anima» (II, 9). Definissant les sens par leur objet propre, Aristote tente de distinguer les differentes sortes d'odeurs par analogie avec les differentes sortes de saveurs propres au gout. L'A. montre que, contrairement au gout, l'odorat est un sens mediat dans la methodologie mixte d'Aristote
Aristotle on the Sense-Organs
This book offers an important study of Aristotle's theory of the sense-organs. It aims to answer two questions central to Aristotle's psychology and biology: why does Aristotle think we have sense-organs, and why does he describe the sense-organs in the way he does? The author looks at all the Aristotelian evidence for the five senses and shows how pervasively Aristotle's accounts of the sense-organs are motivated by his interest in form and func…
Truth, Lies and History in Plato's Timaeus-Critias
Aristotle on the Sense Organs
Body, Soul, and Tripartition in Plato’S Timaeus
From the Phaedo we are familiar with the view of the body as a sort of prison for the soul. The body disrupts the proper workings of the soul, giving rise to irrationality in an essentially rational immortal soul. Embodiment is represented as a punishment for the soul. As Socrates puts it, ‘the philosopher’s soul utterly despises his body and flees from it, seeking to be alone by itself’ (65 o). If this is our only impression of Plato’s view of t…
Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias
Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of …
Dialogue and dialectic
The Timaeus-Critias, like Plato's other works, is commonly referred to as a dialogue. Yet from 29d6 to the end, that is to say for about five-sixths of the text, the Timaeus takes the form of a monologue, and roughly the same holds for the Critias. There are other Platonic dialogues which contain long, uninterrupted speeches, for example, the Apology and the Laws. Yet there is, with the possible exception of the Menexenus, no other work that to s…
Colloquium 7: In Defense of Inner Sense: Aristotle on Perceiving that One Sees
The Soul as an Inner Principle of Change: The Basis of Aristotle's Psychological Naturalism
This chapter examines Aristotle's claim that the soul is an inner principle of change, against the background of his account in the Physics of nature as an inner principle of change. That for Aristotle, the study of the soul is part of the study of nature is clear already from the opening lines of the De anima, where he announces that ‘knowledge of the soul seems to contribute greatly to all truth but most of all the truth in relation to nature: …
From Plato’s Timaeus To Aristotle’s De Caelo: The Case Of The Missing World Soul
The Timaeus is the natural reference point for the kind of natural philosophy Aristotle seeks to develop. This chapter characterizes the relationship between the cosmologies of the De caelo and the Timaeus by comparing the general scopes and subject matters of the two works, and, then, by focusing on, the apparent absence in the De caelo of the world soul, which was one of the most important features of Plato's cosmology. One might then argue tha…
Norms and situational rules of address in English and Norwegian speakers
The Powers of Aristotle's Soul
Thomas Kjeller Johansen presents a new account of Aristotle's major work on psychology, the De Anima. He argues that Aristotle explains a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to the soul's capacities, and considers how Aristotle adopts and adapts this theory in his later works.
The Platonic Art of Philosophy
This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the pr…
Why the Cosmos Needs a Craftsman: Plato, Timaeus 27d5-29b1
In his opening speech, Timaeus ( Timaeus 27d5-29b1) argues that the cosmos must be the product of a craftsman looking to an eternal paradigm. Yet his premises seem at best to justify only that the world could have been made by such a craftsman. This paper seeks to clarify Timaeus’ justification for his stronger conclusion. It is argued that Timaeus sees a necessary role for craftsmanship as a cause that makes becoming like being
A Triptych in Plato's Timaeus: A Note on the Receptacle Passage ( Timaeus 48e–52d)
At Timaeus 48e2–52d4 Timaeus sets out to establish that there are three principles or kinds (γένη) underlying the creation of the cosmos, not just the two he acknowledged earlier (27d–28a). The way he does so is not simply by adding an account of the third kind to the accounts of being and becoming that he has already given. Rather he does so by showing how each of the three differs from the others. It has not been noticed how this procedure stru…
Aristotle on the Logos of the Craftsman
Aristotle thinks that an account, a logos , of some sort is characteristic of craft, technē . Some scholars think that the logos element of technē is tagged onto experience as a theoretical element not directly engaged in successful production: I argue instead that the logos grounds the productive ability of craft, and also that is practically orientated in a way that distinguishes it from the logos of theoretical science. Understanding the logos…
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê
This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out the ancient debates about technê from the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers, through Plato and Aristotle and the Hellenistic age (Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics), ending in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Amongst the many themes that come…
Interventive Interviewing Revisited: An Updated Framework
Interventive interviewing is a methodology that guides professionals in generating helpful questions for clients. It is grounded in systemic and social constructionist ways of thinking and has been useful in both clinical and organizational settings. The first part of this paper reviews the original work on this approach in systemic therapy and some adjustments that were made when it was applied in organizational consulting and coaching. The seco…
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