Did Plato and Aristotle have anything to say about belief? The answer to this question might seem blindingly obvious: of course they did. Plato distinguishes belief from knowledge in the Meno, Republic, and Theaetetus, and Aristotle does so in the Posterior Analytics. Plato distinguishes belief from perception in the Theaetetus, and Aristotle does so in the de Anima. They talk about the distinc...

The persistent vegetative state (PVS) is one of the most iconic and misunderstood phrases in clinical neuroscience. Coined as a diagnostic category by Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and American neurologist Fred Plum in 1972, the phrase "vegetative" first appeared in Aristotle's treatise On the Soul (circa mid-fourth century BCE). Aristotle influenced neuroscientists of the nineteenth and ...

Plato writes about Beauty in many of his dialogues, particularly in the Symposium, but he has no word equivalent to our "Symmetry", and this concept was not then formalised. Nevertheless, there are indications that some aspects of the concept were understood, if only intuitively. Plato has a very abstract concept of beauty, and when he uses "beauty" to characterise the so-called "Platonic Solid...

Is there a philosopher's approach to the concepts of health and disease? Are there any particularly philosophical concepts concerning medical affairs? What point could there be in the existence of such concepts? These questions seem to be well motivated by the title of this paper. What use can a scholarly and humanistic discipline be to a rapidly expanding science such as medicine? Let us first...

The PLATO machine translation (MT) evaluation (MTE) research program has as a goal the systematic development of a predictive relationship between discrete, welldefined MTE metrics and the specific information processing tasks that can be reliably performed with output. Traditional measures of quality, informed by the International Standards for Language Engineering (ISLE), namely, clarity, coh...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Plato Revisited: Learning Through Listening in the Digital World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How New Technologies Are Changing Our View of What Listening Is . . . . . . . . . . . 2 How New Technologies Are Changing the Relationship Between Literacy and Listening 6 How New Technologies Are Changing What a...

Alfred North Whitehead wrote a letter to Charles Hartshorne in 1936 in which he referred to William James as the American Plato. Especially given Whitehead’s admiration of Plato, this was a high compliment to James. What was the basis for this compliment and analogy? In responding to that question beyond the partial and scattered references provided by Whitehead, this article briefly explores t...

The book by E. N. Tigerstedt Interpreting Plato sums up the development of Platonic studies and heritage in understanding Plato’s philosophy over previous two hundred years. Finnish researcher builds his review on methodological principles not only individual researchers, but also entire areas. A literary critic editor profession, carried love antiquity through whole life, this was both result ...

The avowed purpose of Plato’s Sophist is to characterize the sophist. In the first part of his book, Plato employs the method of divisions to obtain this characterization, and eventually arrives at the conclusion that the sophist is an imitator and that “there is an art, concerned with speeches, by which it is possible to beguile the young” (234c). From here it is short shrift to arrive at the ...