Papers

 

Rachel Barney

  1. I.Published papers:

1. On Plato, more or less (see also Sophists, Aristotle):

"Intellectualism and the Method of Hypothesis in Plato's Early Dialogues" (forthcoming), in Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy, edited by M. R. Hampson and F. Leigh (Oxford, 2022).

"Plato on Normative Measurement: Statesman 283b1-287b3", in Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion, eds. P. Dimas, M. Lane, and S.S. Meyer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 115-35.

"Techne as a Model for Virtue in Plato", in Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy, ed. T. Johansen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 62-85. (pdf)

"Plato on Measure and the Good: the Rank-Ordering of the Philebus", in J. Jirsa, F. Karfik, S. Spinka (eds.), Plato's Philebus: Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium Platonicum Pragense, Praha: Oikoymenh Publishers, 2017, 208-29.

“What Kind of Theory is the Theory of the Tripartite Soul?", in Proceedings of the XXXVIIth Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, G. Gurtler ed., Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2016, 53-83. (pdf)

“Plato on Desire for the Good”, in S. Tenenbaum (ed.), Desire, Good, and Practical Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (pdf)

“Ring-Composition in Plato: the Case of Republic X,” in M. McPherran (ed.), Cambridge Critical Guide to Plato’s Republic. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 32-51. (pdf)

“Notes on the Kalon and the Good in Plato,” Classical Philology (Special Issue: Beauty, Harmony and the Good) 105 (October 2010): 363-377. (pdf)

“Gorgias' Defence: Plato and his Opponents on Rhetoric and the Good,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 48.1 (2010): 95-121. (pdf)

“Eros and Necessity in the Ascent from the Cave”, Ancient Philosophy 28:2 (2008): 357-72. (pdf)

“Platonism, Moral Nostalgia and the City of Pigs,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 17 (2001): 207-27. (pdf)

“Socrates Agonistes: the Case of the Cratylus Etymologies,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 16 (1998): 63-98. (pdf)

“Plato on Conventionalism,” Phronesis 42 (1997): 143-62.  (pdf)


2. On the Sophists:

"Protagoras and the Myth of Plato's Protagoras ", GANPh [Gesellschaft für Antike Philosophie] Proceedings V , ed. C. Riedweg, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019, 135-160. (pdf)

"Gorgias' Encomium of Helen ", in Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy , ed. E. Schliesser, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 1-25.

“The Sophistic Movement”, in M.L. Gill and P. Pellegrin (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, 77-97.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. (pdf)

“Socrates’ Refutation of Thrasymachus”, in G. Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic, 44-62. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. (pdf)

“Callicles and Thrasymachus,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004. Not here but at:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/callicles-thrasymachus


3. On Aristotle:

"[Aristotle], On Trolling ", Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2:2 (2016): 193-95.

"Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vicious Habituation", John Cooper Festschrift, ed. Ben Morison and Hendrik Lorenz, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, special volume 57 (2019), 273-307. (pdf)

"History and Dialectic (Metaphysics A 3, 983a24-4b8)", in Carlos Steel ed., Aristotle's Metaphysics Alpha (Symposium Aristotelicum XVIII). Oxford University Press, 2012, 69-104. (pdf)

“Aristotle’s Argument for a Human Function,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34 (2008): 293-322. (pdf)

“The Carpenter and the Good”, in D. Cairns, F. G. Herrmann, and T. Penner (eds.),  Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic, 293-319. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2008. (pdf)


4. On Later Greek Philosophy:

“Simplicius: Commentary, Harmony, and Authority,” Antiquorum Philosophia 3 (2009): 101-20. (pdf)

“A Puzzle in Stoic Ethics”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 24 (2003): 303-40. (pdf)

“Appearances and Impressions,” Phronesis 37 (1992): 283-313. (pdf)


5. Other:

“The Inner Voice: Kant on Conditionality and God as Cause”, in Aristotle and Kant on the Highest Good, ed. J. Aufderheide and R. Bader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 159-82. (pdf)

"Socrates and the Ethic of Resistance: Comments on Buss", Journal of Applied Philosophy 37:1 (2020), 34-38.


II. Some Shorter Pieces:

Review of M.F. Burnyeat, Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2012), for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, published October 2013. (pdf)

Review of I. Vasiliou, Aiming at Virtue in Plato (Cambridge, 2008), Journal of the History of Philosophy 48: 4 (2010), 521-22. (pdf)

Review of V. Tsouna, The Ethics of Philodemus (Oxford 2007), Ethics 120:2 (2010), 422-26. (pdf)

Comments on Broadie: Virtue and Beyond in Plato and Aristotle”, Southern Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume (Spindel Conference Proceedings) 43 (2005): 115-25. (pdf)

Is Plato Interested in Meta-Ethics? Comments on J.M. Rist, ‘The Possibility of Morality in Plato’s Republic,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 14 (1998): 73-81. (pdf)