Justin Gosling
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Gosling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gosling |
| SIGNATURE | GOSLING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1St. Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Weakness of the Will
Since before Plato, philosophers have puzzled over why it is that people will sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action. The book begins by examining the various theories put forward by Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and a selection of medieval philosophers and discusses how and why later philosophers avoid the problem. In the second section, Justin Gosling argues that familiar ways of viewing the problem mislocate the apparent irratio…
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Mad, Drunk or Asleep?–Aristotle's Akratic
In what follows I propose to discuss a problem about Aristotle's treatment of akratic knowledge in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics, especially 1146b311147b19. Put briefly the question is whether Aristotle's account of off-beat knowledge there allows the akratic to know what they are doing without clouding of intellect. I shall be discussing this question on certain non-obvious assumptions. I shall be assuming i. that in the passage from 1146b3…
Weakness of the Will
Socrates and Plato Aristotle Do we have wills? Thinking good Intentional Action Davidson and his critics Reason and the economists Feeling and the psychologists
The Stoics and ἀκρασία
Plato's Late Ontology
Mad, Drunk or Asleep?–Aristotle's Akratic
In what follows I propose to discuss a problem about Aristotle's treatment of akratic knowledge in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics, especially 1146b311147b19. Put briefly the question is whether Aristotle's account of off-beat knowledge there allows the akratic to know what they are doing without clouding of intellect. I shall be discussing this question on certain non-obvious assumptions. I shall be assuming i. that in the passage from 1146b3…
Plato's Late Ontology
The Stoics and ἀκρασία
Weakness of the Will
Socrates and Plato Aristotle Do we have wills? Thinking good Intentional Action Davidson and his critics Reason and the economists Feeling and the psychologists
Mad, Drunk or Asleep?–Aristotle's Akratic
In what follows I propose to discuss a problem about Aristotle's treatment of akratic knowledge in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics, especially 1146b311147b19. Put briefly the question is whether Aristotle's account of off-beat knowledge there allows the akratic to know what they are doing without clouding of intellect. I shall be discussing this question on certain non-obvious assumptions. I shall be assuming i. that in the passage from 1146b3…
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
The Weakness of the Will
Since before Plato, philosophers have puzzled over why it is that people will sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action. The book begins by examining the various theories put forward by Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and a selection of medieval philosophers and discusses how and why later philosophers avoid the problem. In the second section, Justin Gosling argues that familiar ways of viewing the problem mislocate the apparent irratio…
Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ancient philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History of philosophy (2 works) · Weakness (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Analogy (1 work)