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and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem" and "Did Epicurus discover the Free-Will Problem?" Bobzien argues that the problem of determinism and free-will, as conceived in contemporary philosophy, was not considered by Aristotle, Epicurus or the Stoics, as was previously thought, but only in the 2nd century CE, as the result of a conflation of Stoic and Aristotelian theory.
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is "the first full-scale modern study of the theory ". "It explores ... the views of the Stoics on causality, fate, the modalities, divination, rational agency, the non-futility of action, moral responsibility, formation of character". In this book and in her articles "The Inadvertent Conception
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is the first monograph on Stoic modal logic. In her paper "Stoic Syllogistic" Bobzien sets out the evidence for Stoic syllogistic. She argues that this should not be assimilated into standard propositional calculus, but treated as a distinct system which bears important similarities to
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In the 2021 extended essay "Frege plagiarized the Stoics", based on her 2016 Keeling Lecture, Bobzien argues in detail that Frege plagiarized them on a large scale in his work on the philosophy of logic and language, written mainly between 1890 and his death in 1925.
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Bobzien's "Die Kategorien der Freiheit bei Kant" (The Categories of Freedom in Kant) has been described as an article "that has long been the starting point for any German reader seeking to deepen his understanding of the second chapter of the Analytic of Kant's
85:. She was appointed to a senior professorship in philosophy at Yale in 2001 and held this position from 2002 to 2010. From 1993 to 2002 she had a tenured position at Oxford University. From 1990 to 2002, she was fellow and praelector in philosophy at 213:, context sensitivity, and assessment sensitivity. On this basis she proposes the modal logic S4.1 as governing the truth operator and offers a revenge-free solution to the liar paradox that relates to Herzberger's 130:." It differentiates the main functions of Kant's Categories of Freedom: as conditions of the possibility for actions (i) to be free, (ii) to be comprehensible as free and (iii) to be morally evaluated. 37:(born 1960) is a German-born philosopher whose research interests focus on philosophy of logic and language, determinism and freedom, and ancient philosophy. She currently is senior research fellow at 784: 389: 813: 198:
S4.1 to vagueness and paradoxes. She has introduced and developed the philosophical ideas of columnar higher-order vagueness, borderline nestings, and semi-determinability.
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Among her awards are a British Academy Research Readership (2000–2002), and a fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (2008–09). In 2014 she was elected a
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and Galen's representation of peripatetic hypothetical syllogistic, and shown these differ from stoic syllogistic and contemporary propositional logic.
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for the humanities and social sciences. Bobzien has published several books and numerous articles in leading academic journals and collections.
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2010.11.06, of K. Ameriks, O. Höffe (eds.) Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy, Cambridge 2009.
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and avoids higher-order vagueness paradoxes and sharp boundaries. The proposed logic is weaker than
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Bobzien's paper "The Development of Modus Ponens in Antiquity" traces the earliest development of
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sentences and shows how their combination leads to the liar's paradoxicality: salience-based
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Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: Keeling Lectures 2011-18
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Themes in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: Keeling Lectures 2011-18
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Times Literary Supplement (15 September 2000) "Chrysippus and the seamless web"
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NEH Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions, announced June 2008.
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Bobzien currently holds the position of senior research fellow at
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Yale Daily News 3/23/2001, "Philosophy hires rising Oxford star"
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Freedom, and Moral Responsibility: Essays in Ancient Philosophy
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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.1-7
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Bobzien has worked on the philosophical application of the
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Review of Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIV, 1996.
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PhilPapers archive link to Bobzien's professional papers
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FBA
All Souls College, Oxford
University of Oxford
Hamburg
Bonn University
Oxford University
Somerville College
All Souls College, Oxford
Oxford University
The Queen's College
Balliol College
Fellow of the British Academy
national academy
Critique of Practical Reason
relevance logic
connexive logic
Gentzen
sequent
structural proof theory
problem of multiple generality
first-order logic
modus ponens
hypothetical syllogisms
modal logic
2017 Jacobsen Lecture
liar
bistability
revision theory
vagueness

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