Stephen Makin

Biographic Data

ID5966260
NAMEStephen Makin
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMEMakin
SIGNATUREMAKIN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sheffield
ORCID0000-0001-8701-9043
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Involvement of older adults in shared decision-making on care transitions in the UK

    Open AccessLucia Halamová, Louise Locock et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2025

    The global population is ageing rapidly, emphasising the need to understand the decision-making processes of older adults regarding potential care transitions. Gerontological research has focused on healthcare decisions, with less information on living situation choices of older adults. This review explored older adults' experiences with their involvement in decision-making processes related to transitioning into care facilities in the United Kin…

  • About Time for Aristotle

    Stephen MakinARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2007

    Journal Article About time for Aristotle Get access Time for Aristotle: Physics IV 10. Ursula Coope, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 194. Price £30.00.) Stephen Makin Stephen Makin University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 227, April 2007, Pages 280–293, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.485.x Published: 27 February 2007

  • Clarendon Aristotle Series: Metaphysics: Book Θ

    Aristotle Aristotle, Aristotle  et al.BOOKClarendon Aristotle Series:…2006

  • Melissus And His Opponents

    Stephen MakinARTICLEPhronesis2005

    In this paper I offer a new interpretation of Melissus' argument at DK 30 B8.In this passage Melissus uses an Eleatic argument against change to challenge an opponent who appeals to the authority of perception in order to support the view that there are a plurality of items in the world. I identify an orthodox type of approach to this passage, but argue that it cannot give a charitable interpretation of Melissus' strategy. In order to assess Meli…

  • Aristotle's Two Modal Theses Again

    Stephen MakinARTICLEPhronesis1999

    This paper offers an interpretation of the arguments Aristotle offers in Metaphysics 9.4, 1047b14-30, for the two modal theses [1] if (if A is the case then B is the case) then (if A is possible then B is possible) [2] if (if A is possible then B is possible) then (if A is the case then B is the case) Aristotle's arguments for these theses have not typically impressed commentators. I offer two arguments which are relatively faithful to Aristotle'…

  • Indifference Arguments

    Victor Gaston, Stephen MakinARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1997

  • VIII—An Ancient Principle about Causation

    Stephen MakinARTICLEProceedings of the Aristotelian…1991

    Journal Article VIII—An Ancient Principle about Causation Get access Stephen Makin Stephen Makin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 91, Issue 1, 1 June 1991, Pages 135–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/91.1.135 Published: 09 September 2015

  • Aristotle on Unity and Being

    Open AccessStephen MakinARTICLEProceedings of the Cambridge…1988

    In this paper I will discuss what Aristotle has to say on the relation between τὸ ἕν and τὸ ὄν. Stated briefly the relation is that τὸ ἕν and τὸ ὄν are (a) transcendental predicates: each applies in all the categories; (b) convertible predicates: each implies the other and adds nothing to the other. For Met. 1003b23–4 claims that being and unity are one and the same thing in that they are implied in each other, τὸ ὂν καὶ τὸ ἕν ταὐτὸν καὶ μία φύσι…

  • How can we find out what Ancient Philosophers said

    Stephen MakinARTICLEPhronesis1988

    The question I will discuss in this paper is: what role does the philosophical assessment of a view play in deciding whether to attribute that view to some previous philosophers? My particular interest, on which I will concentrate exclusively in this paper, is in pre-Socratic philosophy. For it is with preSocratic philosophy, more than any other area, that we are faced with the problem of limited and incomplete textual evidence. As a result we ha…

  • Zeno on Plurality

    Stephen MakinARTICLEPhronesis1982

    In de Generatione et Corruptione A8 Aristotle presents the Atomic theory as due to reflection on the Eleatic view that what is is necessarily one and immovable (325a2: T'O 'EV 't v second, they should pose no threat to the Eleatic theory. Both these guides embody assumptions that might be challenged. As to the first, it might be doubted whether the Atomic theory was a reaction to Eleaticism; but for the purposes of this paper the first guide is t…