Plato's Fish-Trap: Ancient Philosophy and Science
Doug CampbellThis is a Substack dedicated to ancient philosophy and science. New posts every Friday.
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Aristotle's Politics: Humans are Political Animals (lecture)
On May 15, 2026, I gave a free lecture here on Substack. It was entitled “Aristotle’s Politics: Humans are Political Animals.” As the name suggests, I went through Aristotle’s claim in the Politics that humans are, by nature, political anim...
Heraclitus on the unity of opposites
Heraclitus was an early Greek philosopher most famous for the saying that “you can’t step into the same river twice.” His book, On Nature, was full of such cryptic statements, but it is sadly lost to us. We have fragments of it and reports...
Epictetus on what is and is not in our control
There’s a common practice in some self-help places today, where you draw two circles on a piece of paper: one circle contains all the things you can control, and the other contains all the things you’re concerned about. The idea is that our...
What Thales can teach us about early Greek explanations
Thales (ca. 620s - 540s BCE) is often listed as the first philosopher in Western history. That identification depends on a claim that Aristotle makes, a few centuries later, in the Metaphysics: that Thales was the first person to do philoso...
All learning is recollection: Plato's response to Meno's paradox
One of Plato’s most interesting contributions to the history of ideas is what we call the theory of recollection. This theory states that all learning is, in fact, recollection. This means that knowledge is innate; we are born with knowledg...
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College. Author of An Introduction to the Ethics of Social Media. Host of the Ancient Philosophy Podcast.
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