Nicholas P. White

A Bibliography

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

I. Works by Nicholas P. White

1970

• "Aristotle on Non-Substance." PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 1970.

1971

• "Aristotle on Sameness and Oneness." Philosophical Review (April 1971), 80(2)[434]:177-197.

• "A Note on Ekthesis." Phronesis (1971), 16(2):164-168.

1972

• "Origins of Aristotle's Essentialism." Review of Metaphysics (September 1972), 26(1) [101]:57-85.

• Review of Michael C. Stokes' One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy. Classical World (April-May 1972), 65(8-9) [1359]:278.

1974

• "Inquiry." Review of Metaphysics (December 1974), 28(2) [110]:289-310.
       Translated into Japanese in Risto [Tokyo] (1974), 10:29-44.

• "What Numbers Are." Synthese (May-June 1974), 27(1-2):111-124.

1975

• Translation of Plato's Meno. In Stephen P. Stich, ed., Innate Ideas, pp. 80-86. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1975.

1976

• Plato on Knowledge and Reality. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976.

1978

• "Two Notes on Stoic Terminology." American Journal of Philology (Spring 1978), 99(1) [393]:111-119.

1979

• "The Basis of Stoic Ethics." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1979), 83:143-178.

• Review of Anthony Kenny's The Aristotelian Ethics. Review of Metaphysics (September 1979), 32(1) [129]:184-185.

1981

• "Goodness and Human Aims in Aristotle's Ethics." In Dominic J. O'Meara, ed., Studies in Aristotle, pp. 225-246. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 9. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1981.

1982

• "Dasselben und Einessein bei Aristoteles." In Kuno Lorenz, ed., Identitat und Individuation, Bd. 1. Logische Probleme im historischen Aufriss, pp. 149-168. Problemata, 76-77. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1982.
        German translation of "Aristotle on Sameness and Oneness" (1971).

1983

• "Comments on A. Long's 'Arius Didymus and Exposition of Stoic Ethics'." In William W. Fortenbaugh, ed., On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus, pp. 67-74. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, Vol. 1. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1983.

• Translated, with introduction and annotations. Handbook of Epictetus. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.

• Review of F.C. White's Plato's Theory of Particulars. Canadian Philosophical Reviews (February 1983), 3(1):44-46.

• Review of Jon Moline's Plato's Theory of Understanding. Ancient Philosophy (Fall 19843 3(2):211-216.

1984

• "The Classification of Goods in Plato's Republic." Journal of the History of Philosophy (October 1984), 22(4):393-421.

1985

• "The Argument of Plato's Gorgias." In Dominic J. O'Meara, ed., Platonic Investigations, pp. 139-162. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Vol. 13. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1985.
        Consists for the most part of papers delivered at the Catholic University of America in Fall 1983 as part of the Matchette Lectures on "Plato and his Legacy."

• "Nature and Regularity in Stoic Ethics: A Discussion of Anna Maria Ioppolo, Aristone de Chio e lo Stoicismo Antico." Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (1985), 3:289-305.

• "Professor Shoemaker and So-Called 'Qualia' of Experience." Philosophical Studies [Minneapolis] (May 1985), 47(3):369-384.

• Review of R.W. Sharples' Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate: Text, Translation and Commentary. Philosophical Review (January 1985), 94(1) [489]:127-131.

• Review of Stanley Rosen's Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Image. Journal of the History of Philosophy (July 1985), 23(3):419-422.

• "The Role of Physics in Stoic Ethics." Southern Journal of Philosophy (1985), 23(Supplement):57-74.
       Spindel Conference 1984: "Recovering the Stoics"

• "The Role of Intuition in Plato's Epistemology." [Abstract] Noûs (March 1985), 19(1):76. A. P. A. Western Division Meetings.

1986

• "Identity, Modal Individuation, and Matter in Aristotle." In Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, eds., Studies in Essentialism, pp. 475-494. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 11. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

• "The Rulers' Choice." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (1986), 68(1):22-46.

1987

• "Forms and Sensibles: Phaedo 74b-c." Philosophical Topics (Fall 1987), 15(2):197-214.
        Issue is on "Ancient Greek Philosophy," edited by Lynne Spellman.

1988

• "Observations about Gadamer's Interpretation of Plato." In Charles L. Griswold, ed., Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings, pp. 247-257. New York: Routledge, 1988.

• "Rational Self-Sufficiency and Greek Ethics." Ethics (October 1988), 99(1):136-146.
       A review article on Martha C. Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness: Good Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy.

• Review of Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes' The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations. Philosophical Review (April 1988), 97(2) [502]:256-261.

• Review of Martha C. Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Ethics (October 1988), 99(1):136-146.

• Review of Suzanne Mansion's Études Aristoteliciennes: Receuils d'articles. Ancient Philosophy (Fall 1988), 8(2):301-304.

1989

• "Good as Goal." Southern Journal of Philosophy (1989), 27(Supplement):169-193.
       Spindel Conference 1988: "Aristotle's Ethics"

• "Happiness and External Contingencies in Plato's Republic X." In William C. Starr and Richard C. Taylor, eds., Moral Philosophy: Historical and Contemporary Essays, pp. 1-21. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1989.

• "Perceptual and Objective Properties in Plato." Apeiron (December 1989), 22(4):45-65.
        This issue is entitled "Nature, Knowledge and Virtue: Essays in memory of Joan Kung," edited by Terry Penner and Richard Kraut.

• Review of Hans-Georg Gadamer's The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy. Noûs (April 1989), 23(2):254-256.

1990

• Review of Malcolm Schofield and Gisela Striker, eds., The Norms of Nature: Studies in Hellenistic Ethics. Philosophical Review (October 1990), 99(4) [512]:632-636.

• "Stoic Values." Monist (January 1990), 73(1):42-58.
       General Topic: "Hellenistic Ethics."

1991

• Review of Terry Penner's The Ascent from Nominalism: Some Existence Arguments in Plato's Middle Dialogues. Philosophical Review (April 1991), 100(2) [514]:318-321.

1992

• "The Attractive and the Imperative: Sidgwick's View of Greek Ethics." In Bart Schultz, ed., Essays on Henry Sidgwick, pp. 311-330. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  Chiefly papers presented at a conference called "Henry Sidgwick as Philosopher and Historian" held at the University of Chicago, May 18-20, 1990.

• "Plato's Epistemology." In Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, eds., A Companion to Epistemology, pp. 345-349. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992.

• "Plato's Metaphysical Epistemology." In Richard H. Kraut, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Plato, pp. 277-310. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

• "Plato's Philosophy of Language." In Sprachphilosophie: ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung = Philosophy of Language: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Handbucher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Bd. 7. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1992.

1993

• Translated, with Introduction and Notes. Plato's The Sophist. Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett, 1993.

• "Introduction" to Plato's The Sophist, pp. vii-xxxiv. Indianapolis & Cambridge: Hackett, 1993.

1994

• "Neoaristotelian Inclusivist Eudaimonism: Some of its Problems." Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1994), 1:57-72.

• Review of Bernard Williams' Shame and Necessity. Journal of Philosophy (November 1994), 91(11):619-622.

1995

• "Conflicting Parts of Happiness in Aristotle's Ethics." Ethics (January 1995), 105(2):258-283.

• "Plato's Metaphysics." In Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., A Companion to Metaphysics, pp. 393-397. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.

• "Platonism." In Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds., A Companion to Metaphysics, pp. 397-401. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.

• Review of Gregory Vlastos' Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (March 1995), 55(1):237-242.

1996

• Review of Nicholas Denyer's Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Mind (October 1996), 105(420):696-699.

• Review of Terence Irwin's Plato's Ethics. Ethics (October 1996), 107(1):146-149.

1997

• "Eudämonismus, Dualismus und Harmonie." In Allgemeinen Gesellschaft für Philosophie in Deutschland. Volume 2. Munich: Lehnen, 1997.

• "From the Idea of the Good to Some Ideas of Goodman." Philosophia Scientiae (1997), 29(2):313-330.
       Part of "Actes du Colloque International Nelson Goodman."

• Review of Mary Margaret McCabe's Plato's Individuals. Ancient Philosophy (Fall 1997), 17(2):525-529.

• Review of Sarah Broadie's Ethics with Aristotle. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (1997), 79(1):92-97.

• "Widerlegt sich der Protagoreïsche Relativismus selbst?" In Georg Meggle and Andreas Mundt, eds. Analyomen 2: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference "Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy", Volume I: Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, pp. 329-332. Perspektiven der Analytischen Philosophie; Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1997.
       This conference was organised by Gesellschaft fur Analytische Philosophie (GAP) and held at the University of Leipzi. September 7-10, 1994.

1998

• "A Modern Approach to Aristotle's Causa Finalis." Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1998), 2:230-241.

1999

• "Harmonizing Plato." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (June 1999), 59(2):497-512.

• "Intrinsically Valued Parts of Happiness: Aristotle, Butler, and Mill." Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse = Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (1999), 2:149-156.

• "Platons Vorstellung von der politischen Rolle der Philosophen." In Kai Buchholz, Shahid Rahman, and Ingrid Weber, eds., Wege zur Vernunft: Philosophieren zwischen Tätigkeit und Reflexion, pp. 53-60. Frankfurt & New York: Campus Verlag, 1999.

2000

• Review of Nancy Sherman's Making a Necessity of Virtue. Ethics (October 2000), 111(1):189-192.

2002

• Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Forthcoming

• "Conflicts within Eudaimonia." In Peter Baumann and Monika Betzler, eds, Practical Conflicts.

II. Works about Nicholas P. White

Discussions of Nicholas P. White's Work

• Annas, Julia. "Prudence and Morality in Ancient and Modern Ethics." Ethics (January 1995), 105(2):241n.

• Barnes, Kenneth. "Aristotle on Identity and its Problems." Phronesis (1977), 22:48-62.

• Boxill, Bernard R. "How Injustice Pays." Philosophy and Public Affairs (Summer 1980), 9(4):367n20, 369.

• Cooper, John M. "Aristotle on the Goods of Fortune." Philosophical Review (April 1985), 94(2):126n25.

• Dahl, Norman O. "Plato's Defense of Justice." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (December 1991), 51(4):810n1.

• Devitt, Michael. "Dummett's Anti-Realism." Journal of Philosophy (February 1983), 80(2):73n.

• Gadamer, Hans-Georg. "Reply to White's 'Observations about Gadamer's Interpretation of Plato'." In Charles L. Griswold, ed., Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings, pp. 258-266. New York: Routledge, 1988.

• Gulick, Robert Van. "A Functionalist Plea for Self-Consciousness." Philosophical Review (April 1988), 97(2):151n4.

• Hartman, Edwin. "Aristotle on the Identity of Substance and Essence." Philosophical Review (October 1976), 85(4):559-560n22.

• Irwin, T.H. "Prudence and Morality in Greek Ethics." Ethics (January 1995), 105(2):284-295.

• Jubien, Michael. "Ontology and Mathematical Truth." Noûs (May 1977), 11(2):150n3.

• Kaplan, Mark. "It's Not What You Know that Counts." Journal of Philosophy (July 1985), 82(7):352n5.

• Kim, Jaegwon. "'Strong' and 'Global' Supervenience Revisited." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (December 1987), 48(2): 326n24.

• Kitcher, Philip. "The Plight of the Platonist." Noûs (May 1978), 12(2):123-124, 135.

• Loeb, Louis E. "The Priority of Reason in Descartes." Philosophical Review (January 1990), 99(1): 43n60.

• Matthews, Gareth. "Aristotelian Essentialism." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Autumn 1990), 50(Supplement):256, 258n6, 262.

• Miller, Fred D., Jr. "Did Aristotle have the Concept of Identity?" Philosophical Review (October 1973), 82(4):483.

• Railton, Peter. "Moral Realism." Philosophical Review (April 1986), 95(2):207n43.

• Resnik, Michael D. "Mathematics as a Science of Patterns: Ontology and Reference." Noûs (November 1981), 15(4):543, 547.

• Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. "The Place of Contemplation in Aristotel's Nichomachean Ethics." Mind (July 1978), 87(347):345n2.

• Rudebusch, George. "Does Plato Think False Speech is Speech?" Noûs (September 1990), 24(4):607, 608.

• Shalkowski, Scott A. "Concepts and Correspondence." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (March 1987), 47(3): 461n.

• Velleman, J. David. "Brandt's Definition of 'Good'." Philosophical Review (July 1988), 97(3):353n1.

• Velleman, J. David. "Practical Reflection." Philosophical Review (January 1985), 94(1):33n.

• Westen, Paul. "The Concept of Equal Opportunity." Ethics (July 1985), 95(4):837n.

• White, Morton. "Ands and Cans." Mind (April 1974), 83(330): 248n1.

• White, Morton. "Positive Freedom, Negative Freedom, and Possibility." Journal of Philosophy (June 7, 1973), 70(11):309n.

• Williams, C.J.F. "Aristotle's Theory of Descriptions." Philosophical Review (January 1985), 94(1):63, 76n16.