Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy : Essays in Honor of David Keyt

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by  Georgios Anagnostopoulos & Fred D. Miller

Georgios Anagnostopoulos and Fred D. Miller Jr. (eds.), Philosophical Studies Series, Reason and Analysis
in Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2013, Essays in Honor of David Keyt, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6004-2, ©
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Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek PhilosophyEssays in Honor of David
Keyt
Editors
Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA,
USA
Fred D. Miller Jr.
Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation, Bowling Green, OH, USA
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Acknowledgements
Preparing this hommage to David Keyt has been a labor of love for the editors
and contributors alike. The volume contains fifteen essays by sixteen scholars
including students, colleagues, and friends (the latter category being all
inclusive!). All of the authors make important original contributions to the study
of ancient Greek philosophy, and we wish to thank them all for agreeing to
participate in this project, for their cooperation with the editing, and for the high
quality of their essays. We are also grateful for their patience and good cheer
throughout an unexpectedly protracted publication process.
The papers by Gerasimos Santas, Nils Rauhut, Mark McPherran, Charles
Young, and Fred D. Miller, Jr. were delivered originally at a conference (aka “the
Keytfest”) held at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007
commemorating David Keyt’s fiftieth year as a professor of philosophy. Kenneth
Clatterbaugh, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Washington, was very supportive of the program, and Bev Wessel provided
valuable administrative assistance. Daniel Fisher, a student of David Keyt,
offered generous financial support. Richard Parker, another former student,
served as quipster and consummate master of ceremonies.
We are pleased to thank a number of people who have been very helpful with
the editing and publication of this volume including Professor Stephen
Hetherington, the editor of Springer’s Philosophical Studies Series; Ingrid van
Laarhoven; Christi Lue; Ties Nijssen; Hendrikje Tuerlings; Professor Nicholas
D. Smith, who helped to find a suitable publisher for the volume; and an
anonymous reviewer who provided helpful comments. James Dabgotra ably
assisted with the first round of editing, and Pamela Phillips did an excellent job
copyediting the entire typescript and preparing it for the publisher. We also
gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Social Philosophy and Policy
Foundation for the original conference and for the editing of the volume.
Finally, we thank David Keyt for his assistance throughout the planning and
preparation of the volume and especially for his willingness to contribute a
fascinating memoir of his academic career which, in addition to delightful
anecdotes about his encounters with notable scholars, offers illuminating insights
into his own work and also into the recent history of the subdiscipline of ancient
philosophy.
With affection and admiration, we the editors and all the contributors
dedicate this volume to David Keyt, in recognition of his major contributions to
the study of ancient philosophy, and on behalf of the many students, colleagues,
and friends whose lives he has touched and enriched over the past half century.
Del Mar, California Georgios Anagnostopoulos Bowling Green, Ohio Fred
D. Miller, Jr.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations of Plato’s Works
Ap. Apology
Cra. Cratylus
Cri. Crito
Euthd. Euthydemus
Grg. Gorgias
Lg. Laws
Phd. Phaedo
Phdr. Phaedrus
Phil. Philebus
Pol. Politicus (Statesman)
Prm. Parmenides
Prt. Protagoras
Rep. Republic
Smp. Symposium
Sph. Sophist
Tht. Theaetetus
Ti. Timaeus
Abbreviations of Aristotle’s Works
An On the Soul (de Anima)
An. Post Posterior Analytics (Analytica Posteriora)
Cael On the Heavens (de Caelo)
Cat Categories (Categoriae)
EE Eudemian Ethics (Ethica Eudemia)
GA Generation of Animals (de Generatione Animalium)
GC On Generation and Corruption (de Generatione et Corruptione)
HA History of Animals (Historia Animalium)
Insomn On Dreams (de Insomniis)
Int Interpretations (de Interpretatione)
Mem On Memory (de Memoria et Reminiscentia)
Met Metaphysics (Metaphysica)
Meteor Meteorology (Meteorologica)
MM Magna Moralia
NE Nicomachean Ethics (Ethica Nicomachea)
PA Parts of Animals (de Partibus Animalium)
Phys Physics (Physica)
Poet Poetics (Poetica)
Pol Politics (Politica)
Rhet Rhetoric (Rhetorica)
SE Sophistical Refutations (Sophistici Elenchi)
Sens Sense and Sensibilia (de Sensu et Sensibilibus)
Top Topics (Topica)
Contents
Introduction
Georgios Anagnostopoulos and Fred D. Miller Jr.
A Life in the Academy
David Keyt
Moral Psychology in Plato’s Apology
Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith
Socrates, the Athenian
Jean Roberts
Socrates on the Impossibility of a Reasonable Politics
Stephen M. Gardiner
Retaliation in the Crito
Merrill Ring
How Virtuous Was Socrates?
Nils Ch. Rauhut
Plato’s Republic , as a Vocation
Allan Silverman
Soul, Soul-Parts, and Persons in Plato
C. D. C. Reeve
Just City and Just Soul in Plato’s Republic
Gerasimos Santas
Virtue, Luck, and Choice at the End of the Republic
Mark L. McPherran
The Grounds of Logos : The Interweaving of Forms
Christopher Shields
Accidental Beings in Aristotle’s Ontology
S. Marc Cohen
Is There Room for Plato in an Aristotelian Theory of Essence?
Frank A. Lewis
Metaphysics Z.11 and Functionalism
Cass Weller
Aristotle on Belief and Knowledge
Fred D. Miller Jr.
Aristotelian Grace
Charles M. Young
The Works of David Keyt
Index
Contributors
Georgios Anagnostopoulos
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has
authored Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethics (1994); edited A
Companion to Aristotle (2009), Law and Rights in the Ancient Greek Tradition
(2006), and Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of
Gerasimos Santas (2011); and has published a number of articles on ancient
Greek philosophy, medicine, and culture.

Thomas C. Brickhouse
is Professor of Philosophy at Lynchburg College. He is the co-author (with
Nicholas D. Smith) of six books and numerous articles on Socratic philosophy,
most recently Socratic Moral Psychology (2011). In addition to his work in
Socratic studies, he has published a number of articles on Plato and Aristotle.