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  1. Protagoras: The First Political Philosopher? - (D.) Silvermintz Protagoras: Ancients in Action. Pp. XIV + 93. London and New York: Bloomsbury academic, 2016. Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1092-1. [REVIEW]Christopher Moore - 2018 - Polis 35 (1):209-219.
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  • Heracles the Philosopher (Herodorus, Fr. 14).Christopher Moore - 2017 - Classical Quarterly 67 (1):27-48.
    Among our earliest extant references to the word ‘philosophize’ is an unfamiliar one, from the mythographer Herodorus of Pontic Heraclea, whose son Bryson associated with Plato and Aristotle. A Byzantine compiler quotes Herodorus, probably from his book on Heracles, as saying that his hero ‘philosophized until death’ (φιλοσοφήσας μέχρι θανάτου,FGrHist31 F 14). This is a surprising claim in light of the fifth/fourth-centuryb.c.view of Heracles as long-toiling but not intellectual. Euripides'Licymniuscharacterizes him as ‘unimpressive and unadorned, good to the greatest degree, confined (...)
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  • Aristotle on Philosophia.Christopher Moore - 2019 - Metaphilosophy 50 (3):339-360.
    Aristotle uses philosophia (and philosophos, philosophein, philosophôs, sumphilosophein, philosophêteon) in at least ten senses across his oeuvre, as this first study of every instance in his writings reveals. Irrespective of the specific approaches of its practitioners, philosophia may be, for example, an exercise of cleverness; or leisurely study; or the desire to know; or the pursuit of fundamental explanation; or a historically extended discipline. This variety allows us to go some way in reconstructing the complex attitude Aristotle had toward a (...)
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