Polytropic Socrates’ Implicit Defence of Philosophy

Ranking Exercises in Philosophy and Implicit Bias

In recent decades, ranking exercises have become increasingly important to philosophy.And in recent years, philosophers have become increasingly concerned about the situation of underrepresented groups in philosophy. The Australasian Philosophical Association published a report on women in philosophy in 2008 (Goddard 2008), and the British Philosophical Association and Society for Women in Phil...

Misunderstanding Socrates

THE NOTION OF A Socratic PHILOSOPHY, as distinct from what is commonly known as Platonism, has its origins in the work of Gregory Vlastos1 and continues today through the scholars he has influenced.2 The Socratic movement in Plato studies maintains that one can identify in certain Platonic dialogues a philosophical method and a collection of philosophical theses which may properly be attributed...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Socrates and Superiority

I propose a n alternative interpretation of the Crito. The arguments tha t a re typically taken to be Socrates’ primary arguments against escape are actually supplementary arguments that rely on what I call the Superiority Thesis, the thesis tha t the s ta te and i ts citizens a re members of a moral hierarchy where those below are tied by bonds of obligation to those above. I provide evidence ...

Dark energy with polytropic equation of state

Equation of state parameter plays a significant role for guessing the real nature of dark energy. In the present paper polytropic equation of state p = ωρn is chosen for some of the kinematical Λ-models viz., Λ ∼ (ȧ/a), Λ ∼ ä/a and Λ ∼ ρ. Although in dust cases (ω = 0) closed form solutions show no dependency on the polytropic index n, but in non-dust situations some new possibilities are opene...