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Matthew Paris: Plato and Socrates via fineartamerica.com

Cover Art: Matthew Paris's Plato and Socrates

This drawing from Mathew Paris (1217-1259), made famous more recently by Derrida's disquisition on it in The Postcard, appears in a 13th century manuscript that contains a series of fortune-telling tracts. Now, with the generous…

Christopher LongApril 20, 2014

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Evolving Book: Building into the CBO

The CBO is Cambridge Books Online, the electronic books platform for Cambridge University Press (CUP). This is the platform into which Mike Chaplin and a team of programmers working for CUP will build the Socratic and…

Christopher LongAugust 6, 2013

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The Evolving Book: Introduction

As my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, goes officially into editorial production on the print side of Cambridge University Press, I have started to work with Mike Chaplin on…

Christopher LongAugust 4, 2013

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Book As Ecosystem of Scholarly Dialogue

Consider this an invitation to continue along a path we have traversed together over the past three years. This path, which began in the wake of my 2009 Summer Faculty Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellowship,…

Christopher LongJune 25, 2012

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Books Vita

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Christopher P. Long, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2010). This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects.…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2010

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Cambridge University Press to Publish "The Saying of Things"

On October 9th, 2009, I received official word that my manuscript, The Saying of Things: The Nature of Truth and the Truth of Nature, was accepted for publication at the Cambridge University Press under the…

Christopher LongOctober 9, 2009

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The Ethics of Ontology

In 2004 my book, The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy, was published by the State University of New York Press. A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle. Concerned…

Christopher LongMay 11, 2004