Fiona Leigh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5005980 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Fiona Leigh |
| PRENOMES | Fiona |
| SOBRENOME | Leigh |
| ASSINATURA | LEIGH F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National Institute of Agricultural Botany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3221-5327 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Mimesis, art and the metaphysics of appearances in Republic 10
The Theory of Being and the Argument for Forms in Plato’s Sophist
This paper argues for two claims. First, that in the Sophist a metaphysical theory of being is constructed from the ground up, largely on the basis of a claim treated as an axiomatic principle, the ‘ dunamis proposal’ (247d–e), which, I will argue, ought to be understood as Plato’s own definition of being. Second, once its core is in place, the theory is put to use to provide dialectical arguments against proponents of alternative metaphysical th…
The status and power of the good in Plato’s Republic
What is it for a judgement, action, or character state to be itself a good thing, so genuinely worth pursuing? Readers of Plato's Republic discover that that it is by standing in the right relation to the Form of the Good that other things are, or become, good. In her recent monograph, Plato's Sun-Like Good, Sarah Broadie inverts the standard interpretive strategy by focusing primarily on the role of the Good in dialectic, and drawing conclusions…
Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy
The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in some cases, to both.
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
Self-Knowledge, Elenchus and Authority in Early Plato
In some of Plato’s early dialogues we find a concern with correctly ascertaining the contents of a particular kind of one’s own psychological states, cognitive states. Indeed, one of the achievements of the elenctic method is to facilitate cognitive self-knowledge. In the Alcibiades , moreover, Plato interprets the Delphic injunction, ‘know yourself’, as crucially requiring cognitive self-knowledge, and ending in knowing oneself as subject to par…
DNA evidence for multiple introductions of barley into Europe following dispersed domestications in Western Asia
It has long been recognised that the Neolithic spread across Europe via two separate routes, one along the Mediterranean coasts, the other following the axis of the major rivers. But did these two streams have a common point of origin in south-west Asia, at least with regard to the principal plant and animals species that were involved? This study of barley DNA shows that the domesticated barley grown in Neolithic Europe falls into three separate…
The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck
Preface Introduction, by Brad Inwood and Fiona Leigh List of Contributors Chapter One. The Eudemian Ethics on the 'voluntary' David Charles Chapter Two. Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics on loving people and things Christopher Rowe Chapter Three. With mirrors or without? Self-perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12 Mary Margaret McCabe Chapter Four. The pleasure of thinking together: Prolegomenon to a complete reading of EE VII.12 Jennifer Whiting Chapter…
Phylogeographic analysis of barley DNA as evidence for the spread of Neolithic agriculture through Europe
Results of analyses of the photoperiod response gene (PPD-H1) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in modern landraces of cultivated barley were used as evidence for the mechanism of agricultural spread in Neolithic Europe. In particular, we explored the usefulness of considering adaptive genes as indicators of past selective pressures acting on crops, during their spread through Europe. In some areas, such as the Alpine region, Britain and Scandin…
Modes of Being at Sophist 255c-e
I argue for a new interpretation of the argument for the non-identity of Being and Difference at Sophist 255c-e, which turns on a distinction between modes of being a property. Though indebted to Frede (1967), the distinction differs from his in an important respect: What distinguishes the modes is not the subject’s relation to itself or to something numerically distinct, but whether it constitutes or conforms to the specification of some propert…
Phylogeography of einkorn landraces in the Mediterranean basin and Central Europe
The Copula and Semantic Continuity in Plato’ S Sophist
Lesley Brown first made a radical claim about uses of the Greek verb ‘to be’ (einai) in Plato’s Sophist some twenty years ago (1986). The view has proved quite influential. It has attracted support from scholars such as Myles Burnyeat and Charles Kahn, who endorse it in works that treat of ancient texts besides the Sophist. Brown’s paper has been anthologized in a well-received and popular collection of papers on Platonic metaphysics and epistemo…
Platonic Dialogue, Maieutic Method and Critical Thinking
In this paper I offer a reading of one of Plato's later works, the Sophist, that reveals it to be informed by principles comparable on the face of it with those that have emerged recently in the field of critical thinking. As a development of the famous Socratic method of his teacher, I argue, Plato deployed his own pedagogical method, a 'mid-wifely' or maieutic method, in the Sophist. In contrast to the Socratic method, the sole aim of this meth…
Phylogeographic analysis of barley DNA as evidence for the spread of Neolithic agriculture through Europe
Results of analyses of the photoperiod response gene (PPD-H1) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in modern landraces of cultivated barley were used as evidence for the mechanism of agricultural spread in Neolithic Europe. In particular, we explored the usefulness of considering adaptive genes as indicators of past selective pressures acting on crops, during their spread through Europe. In some areas, such as the Alpine region, Britain and Scandin…
Platonic Dialogue, Maieutic Method and Critical Thinking
In this paper I offer a reading of one of Plato's later works, the Sophist, that reveals it to be informed by principles comparable on the face of it with those that have emerged recently in the field of critical thinking. As a development of the famous Socratic method of his teacher, I argue, Plato deployed his own pedagogical method, a 'mid-wifely' or maieutic method, in the Sophist. In contrast to the Socratic method, the sole aim of this meth…
Modes of Being at Sophist 255c-e
I argue for a new interpretation of the argument for the non-identity of Being and Difference at Sophist 255c-e, which turns on a distinction between modes of being a property. Though indebted to Frede (1967), the distinction differs from his in an important respect: What distinguishes the modes is not the subject’s relation to itself or to something numerically distinct, but whether it constitutes or conforms to the specification of some propert…
DNA evidence for multiple introductions of barley into Europe following dispersed domestications in Western Asia
It has long been recognised that the Neolithic spread across Europe via two separate routes, one along the Mediterranean coasts, the other following the axis of the major rivers. But did these two streams have a common point of origin in south-west Asia, at least with regard to the principal plant and animals species that were involved? This study of barley DNA shows that the domesticated barley grown in Neolithic Europe falls into three separate…
Phylogeography of einkorn landraces in the Mediterranean basin and Central Europe
The Copula and Semantic Continuity in Plato’ S Sophist
Lesley Brown first made a radical claim about uses of the Greek verb ‘to be’ (einai) in Plato’s Sophist some twenty years ago (1986). The view has proved quite influential. It has attracted support from scholars such as Myles Burnyeat and Charles Kahn, who endorse it in works that treat of ancient texts besides the Sophist. Brown’s paper has been anthologized in a well-received and popular collection of papers on Platonic metaphysics and epistemo…
Platonic Dialogue, Maieutic Method and Critical Thinking
In this paper I offer a reading of one of Plato's later works, the Sophist, that reveals it to be informed by principles comparable on the face of it with those that have emerged recently in the field of critical thinking. As a development of the famous Socratic method of his teacher, I argue, Plato deployed his own pedagogical method, a 'mid-wifely' or maieutic method, in the Sophist. In contrast to the Socratic method, the sole aim of this meth…
Phylogeography of einkorn landraces in the Mediterranean basin and Central Europe
The Eudemian Ethics on the Voluntary, Friendship, and Luck
Preface Introduction, by Brad Inwood and Fiona Leigh List of Contributors Chapter One. The Eudemian Ethics on the 'voluntary' David Charles Chapter Two. Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics on loving people and things Christopher Rowe Chapter Three. With mirrors or without? Self-perception in Eudemian Ethics VII.12 Mary Margaret McCabe Chapter Four. The pleasure of thinking together: Prolegomenon to a complete reading of EE VII.12 Jennifer Whiting Chapter…
Phylogeographic analysis of barley DNA as evidence for the spread of Neolithic agriculture through Europe
Results of analyses of the photoperiod response gene (PPD-H1) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in modern landraces of cultivated barley were used as evidence for the mechanism of agricultural spread in Neolithic Europe. In particular, we explored the usefulness of considering adaptive genes as indicators of past selective pressures acting on crops, during their spread through Europe. In some areas, such as the Alpine region, Britain and Scandin…
Modes of Being at Sophist 255c-e
I argue for a new interpretation of the argument for the non-identity of Being and Difference at Sophist 255c-e, which turns on a distinction between modes of being a property. Though indebted to Frede (1967), the distinction differs from his in an important respect: What distinguishes the modes is not the subject’s relation to itself or to something numerically distinct, but whether it constitutes or conforms to the specification of some propert…
DNA evidence for multiple introductions of barley into Europe following dispersed domestications in Western Asia
It has long been recognised that the Neolithic spread across Europe via two separate routes, one along the Mediterranean coasts, the other following the axis of the major rivers. But did these two streams have a common point of origin in south-west Asia, at least with regard to the principal plant and animals species that were involved? This study of barley DNA shows that the domesticated barley grown in Neolithic Europe falls into three separate…
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
Self-Knowledge, Elenchus and Authority in Early Plato
In some of Plato’s early dialogues we find a concern with correctly ascertaining the contents of a particular kind of one’s own psychological states, cognitive states. Indeed, one of the achievements of the elenctic method is to facilitate cognitive self-knowledge. In the Alcibiades , moreover, Plato interprets the Delphic injunction, ‘know yourself’, as crucially requiring cognitive self-knowledge, and ending in knowing oneself as subject to par…
Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy
The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in some cases, to both.
The status and power of the good in Plato’s Republic
What is it for a judgement, action, or character state to be itself a good thing, so genuinely worth pursuing? Readers of Plato's Republic discover that that it is by standing in the right relation to the Form of the Good that other things are, or become, good. In her recent monograph, Plato's Sun-Like Good, Sarah Broadie inverts the standard interpretive strategy by focusing primarily on the role of the Good in dialectic, and drawing conclusions…
The Theory of Being and the Argument for Forms in Plato’s Sophist
This paper argues for two claims. First, that in the Sophist a metaphysical theory of being is constructed from the ground up, largely on the basis of a claim treated as an axiomatic principle, the ‘ dunamis proposal’ (247d–e), which, I will argue, ought to be understood as Plato’s own definition of being. Second, once its core is in place, the theory is put to use to provide dialectical arguments against proponents of alternative metaphysical th…
Mimesis, art and the metaphysics of appearances in Republic 10
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