Anthony William Price (born 10 December 1947) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at
Birkbeck College
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,
University of London
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where he taught philosophy from 1995 until 2016. His research relates to Greek ethics and
moral psychology
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, and
contemporary ethics
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Contem ...
. Price was educated at
Winchester College
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and the
University of Oxford
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. He taught at the
University of York
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from 1972 to 1995.
Selected publications
Books
*''Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle''. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
*''Mental Conflict'' (London: Routledge, 1995).
*''Contextuality in Practical Reason''. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008).
*''Virtue and Reason in Plato and Aristotle''.(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2011).
Select articles/chapters
*
"Plato and Freud"[*available for loan, free with registration, at ]Internet Archive
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In:
Christopher J. Gill (ed.), ''The Person and the Human Mind: Issues in Ancient and Modern Philosophy''. Oxford University Press (1990)
*
"Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" In: A. Baldwin & S. Hutton (eds.), ''Platonism and the English Imagination,'' Cambridge University Press.(1994)
* "Friendship and Politics",
draft
free to read at Academia.edu (and to download with registration)
published version
free to read at JSTOR
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with registration, in C. Steel (ed.),''The Legacy of Aristotle’s Political Though''t (1999), 101-20 and '' Tijdschrift voor Filosofie'' 61(1999), 525-45.
*
Egoism and Altruism,"
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rchived/ref> ''Organon'' (Poland) 37 (2008), 71-9.
"Are Plato’s Soul-Parts Psychological Subjects?'
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'' 29 (2009), 1-15
"Intuitions of Fittingness,"
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'' 15 (2009), 348-6
"Choice and action in Aristotle."
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'' 61 (4), (2016) 435-462. ISSN 0031-8868.
"Generating in beauty for the sake of immortality: personal love and the goals of the lover.
[*institutional ]eprint
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In: Destree & Giannopoulou, (eds.) ''Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide,'' Cambridge University Press (2017)
* "Varieties of Pleasure in Plato and Aristotle"
Complete list of publications
as of 2009.
Notes
External links
Birkback homepage
(Archived)
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Living people
20th-century English philosophers
Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Alumni of the University of Oxford
People educated at Winchester College
Academics of the University of York
1947 births
21st-century English philosophers