David Bostock
Biographic Data
| ID | 493798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bostock |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bostock |
| SIGNATURE | BOSTOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Merton College, Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Anehnja hubungan ajah dan anak ini’: Fathers and sons in the early writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This article asks to what extent the depiction of father-son relationships in works by Pramoedya Ananta Toer published up to 1952 reflects what we know of his relationship with his father during those years. It finds that four works written between 1945 and 1949, when Pramoedya had little contact with a father with whom his relations had been difficult, contain negative portraits of fathers, including, in one case, Pramoedya’s own father and, in …
Philosophy of mathematics: An Introduction
Aristotle's Account of Time
This essay says something about nearly every aspect of Aristotle’s discussion of time. The most difficult question of interpretation is what Aristotle might have meant by describing time as ‘a number’. The main question of evaluation is whether there really is any connection between time and motion. Both of these issues and many minor issues are addressed.
Aristotle on the Eleatics in Physics I. 2–3
This essay argues that despite initial appearances, one can make good sense of Aristotle’s objections to Melissus (186a10-22), and one can find a comprehensible line of argument in the objections to Parmenides that follow (186a22-b12). However, the final section of chapter 3, i.e. 186b12-187a11, remains obscure. It evidently refers to an argument of Zeno’s, but it is unclear how the discussion is supposed to be relevant to that argument. A conjec…
Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite
This essay argues that Aristotle misdescribes his own position when he sums it up as the claim that infinity can only be potential and never actual. He readily accepts that there are processes which are actually infinite, that is, never-ending. But he denies that there can ever be a time when an infinite process has been completed. This means that he has to find some fault with Zeno’s well-known argument of Achilles and the tortoise, which he doe…
Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics
The book features a collection of ten essays on themes from Aristotle’s Physics. Six of these have been previously published, and four are newly written for this volume. The first five essays are based on single theme, namely Aristotle’s conception of substance as it appears in his physical works. The basic texts here are Physics I-II, but the essays also range quite widely over Aristotle’s other physical works, where these are relevant to his un…
Coreper Revisited
This article builds on earlier accounts of the work of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) in two ways. First, it examines the role played by members of the committee under legislative co‐decision. Members of Coreper (especially Coreper I) represent the Council in conciliation with the European Parliament and are increasingly involved in negotiations between Council and Parliament at earlier stages in the co‐decision procedure. S…
Oxford World's Classics: Aristotle: Physics
Aristotle: Metaphysics Books Zeta and Eta
Clarendon Aristotle Series: Metaphysics: Books Z and H: Books Z and H
Plato's Theaetetus
Logic and Empiricism
Logic and Empiricism DAVID BOSTOCK DAVID BOSTOCK Merton CollegeOxford OXI 4JD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XCIX, Issue 396, October 1990, Pages 571–582, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIX.396.571 Published: 01 October 1990
The Interpretation of Plato's Crito
Socrates gives as his leading premise in the Crito that one should do nothing wrong (obaCg bet &6Itxiv, 49b8). (He says, indeed, that he has lived his whole life in obedience to this premise, 49a-b.) He then proceeds to argue that it would be wrong for him to try to escape from gaol, thus evading the death penalty he had been sentenced to. But a central problem in interpreting the dialogue is that the arguments he offers for this conclusion appea…
Plato's Phaedo
Pleasure and Activity in Aristotle's Ethics
In both of his main discussions of pleasure (in books VII and X of our Nicomachean Ethics) Aristotle associates pleasure very closely with a special kind of kvtQyFta, a word which I shall translate (following Ross)' as 'activity'. In book VII the special activities in question are said to be those that are activities of the natural state (r'ff xatai qp6ov 'Etew) and are unimpeded (V on the rival interpretation, it is an 'extra' fact, but one that…
Aristotle on the principles of change in Physics I
Aristotle opens Physics I by stating that an inquiry into nature (peri phuseōs), like other inquiries, should begin with an account of the relevant principles (archai). He does not tell us what he means by 'nature' – for that we have to wait until book II – and he does not tell us what he means by a 'principle' in this context, but as we read on we may come to think this omission unimportant. For straightway at the beginning of chapter 2 he appea…
Logic and Arithmetic. Vol. 2: Rational and Irrational Numbers
Journal Article Book Review Get access Logic and Arithmetic. Vol. 2: Rational and Irrational Numbers. By David Bostock. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. viii+307. Price £16.00) Mary Tiles Mary Tiles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 277–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219121 Published: 01 July 1981
Aristotle's A ccount of Time
Plato on Change and Time in the Parmenides
Kripke on Identity and Necessity
Journal Article Kripke on Identity and Necessity Get access David Bostock David Bostock Merton College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 109, October 1977, Pages 313–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218951 Published: 01 October 1977
Logic and Arithmetic: Natural Numbers
III—Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite
Journal Article III—Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite Get access David Bostock David Bostock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 73, Issue 1, 1 June 1973, Pages 37–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/73.1.37 Published: 09 September 2015
Coreper Revisited
This article builds on earlier accounts of the work of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) in two ways. First, it examines the role played by members of the committee under legislative co‐decision. Members of Coreper (especially Coreper I) represent the Council in conciliation with the European Parliament and are increasingly involved in negotiations between Council and Parliament at earlier stages in the co‐decision procedure. S…
Pleasure and Activity in Aristotle's Ethics
In both of his main discussions of pleasure (in books VII and X of our Nicomachean Ethics) Aristotle associates pleasure very closely with a special kind of kvtQyFta, a word which I shall translate (following Ross)' as 'activity'. In book VII the special activities in question are said to be those that are activities of the natural state (r'ff xatai qp6ov 'Etew) and are unimpeded (V on the rival interpretation, it is an 'extra' fact, but one that…
Plato on Change and Time in the Parmenides
The Interpretation of Plato's Crito
Socrates gives as his leading premise in the Crito that one should do nothing wrong (obaCg bet &6Itxiv, 49b8). (He says, indeed, that he has lived his whole life in obedience to this premise, 49a-b.) He then proceeds to argue that it would be wrong for him to try to escape from gaol, thus evading the death penalty he had been sentenced to. But a central problem in interpreting the dialogue is that the arguments he offers for this conclusion appea…
III—Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite
Journal Article III—Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite Get access David Bostock David Bostock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 73, Issue 1, 1 June 1973, Pages 37–52, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/73.1.37 Published: 09 September 2015
Logic and Arithmetic: Natural Numbers
Kripke on Identity and Necessity
Journal Article Kripke on Identity and Necessity Get access David Bostock David Bostock Merton College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 109, October 1977, Pages 313–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218951 Published: 01 October 1977
Plato on Change and Time in the Parmenides
Aristotle's A ccount of Time
Logic and Arithmetic. Vol. 2: Rational and Irrational Numbers
Journal Article Book Review Get access Logic and Arithmetic. Vol. 2: Rational and Irrational Numbers. By David Bostock. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. viii+307. Price £16.00) Mary Tiles Mary Tiles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 124, July 1981, Pages 277–280, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219121 Published: 01 July 1981
Aristotle on the principles of change in Physics I
Aristotle opens Physics I by stating that an inquiry into nature (peri phuseōs), like other inquiries, should begin with an account of the relevant principles (archai). He does not tell us what he means by 'nature' – for that we have to wait until book II – and he does not tell us what he means by a 'principle' in this context, but as we read on we may come to think this omission unimportant. For straightway at the beginning of chapter 2 he appea…
Pleasure and Activity in Aristotle's Ethics
In both of his main discussions of pleasure (in books VII and X of our Nicomachean Ethics) Aristotle associates pleasure very closely with a special kind of kvtQyFta, a word which I shall translate (following Ross)' as 'activity'. In book VII the special activities in question are said to be those that are activities of the natural state (r'ff xatai qp6ov 'Etew) and are unimpeded (V on the rival interpretation, it is an 'extra' fact, but one that…
Plato's Phaedo
Logic and Empiricism
Logic and Empiricism DAVID BOSTOCK DAVID BOSTOCK Merton CollegeOxford OXI 4JD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XCIX, Issue 396, October 1990, Pages 571–582, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XCIX.396.571 Published: 01 October 1990
The Interpretation of Plato's Crito
Socrates gives as his leading premise in the Crito that one should do nothing wrong (obaCg bet &6Itxiv, 49b8). (He says, indeed, that he has lived his whole life in obedience to this premise, 49a-b.) He then proceeds to argue that it would be wrong for him to try to escape from gaol, thus evading the death penalty he had been sentenced to. But a central problem in interpreting the dialogue is that the arguments he offers for this conclusion appea…
Plato's Theaetetus
Clarendon Aristotle Series: Metaphysics: Books Z and H: Books Z and H
Aristotle: Metaphysics Books Zeta and Eta
Oxford World's Classics: Aristotle: Physics
Coreper Revisited
This article builds on earlier accounts of the work of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) in two ways. First, it examines the role played by members of the committee under legislative co‐decision. Members of Coreper (especially Coreper I) represent the Council in conciliation with the European Parliament and are increasingly involved in negotiations between Council and Parliament at earlier stages in the co‐decision procedure. S…
Aristotle's Account of Time
This essay says something about nearly every aspect of Aristotle’s discussion of time. The most difficult question of interpretation is what Aristotle might have meant by describing time as ‘a number’. The main question of evaluation is whether there really is any connection between time and motion. Both of these issues and many minor issues are addressed.
Aristotle on the Eleatics in Physics I. 2–3
This essay argues that despite initial appearances, one can make good sense of Aristotle’s objections to Melissus (186a10-22), and one can find a comprehensible line of argument in the objections to Parmenides that follow (186a22-b12). However, the final section of chapter 3, i.e. 186b12-187a11, remains obscure. It evidently refers to an argument of Zeno’s, but it is unclear how the discussion is supposed to be relevant to that argument. A conjec…
Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite
This essay argues that Aristotle misdescribes his own position when he sums it up as the claim that infinity can only be potential and never actual. He readily accepts that there are processes which are actually infinite, that is, never-ending. But he denies that there can ever be a time when an infinite process has been completed. This means that he has to find some fault with Zeno’s well-known argument of Achilles and the tortoise, which he doe…
Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics
The book features a collection of ten essays on themes from Aristotle’s Physics. Six of these have been previously published, and four are newly written for this volume. The first five essays are based on single theme, namely Aristotle’s conception of substance as it appears in his physical works. The basic texts here are Physics I-II, but the essays also range quite widely over Aristotle’s other physical works, where these are relevant to his un…
Philosophy of mathematics: An Introduction
‘Anehnja hubungan ajah dan anak ini’: Fathers and sons in the early writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This article asks to what extent the depiction of father-son relationships in works by Pramoedya Ananta Toer published up to 1952 reflects what we know of his relationship with his father during those years. It finds that four works written between 1945 and 1949, when Pramoedya had little contact with a father with whom his relations had been difficult, contain negative portraits of fathers, including, in one case, Pramoedya’s own father and, in …
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