Panos Dimas

• Dimas, Panagiotis (2026). Aristotle on Luck; Physics ii.4–5. In Nehamas, Alexander; Tsouna, Voula; Chiaradonna, Riccardo & McKirahan, Richard (Ed.), New Essays on the Platonic Tradition. In Honour of Paul Kalligas. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004751132. p. 186–204. doi: 10.1163/9789004751149_010. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Aristotle devotes three chapters of Physics II, namely four to six, to argue that ‘τύχη’, translated here—and often—as “luck”, is a cause (as is also the “αὐτόματον”, which though is not discussed in the present study). Modern commentators doubt that Aristotle is sincere when he claims that luck is aitia, but nothing in Physics II 4–6 suggests that he dedicates the three central chapters of Book II to argue for a claim he does not believe is true. On the contrary, before explaining in chapters five and six how luck and the αὐτόματον are causes, he devotes chapter four to discussing evidence that luck must be considered a cause. He draws attention to the fact that ordinary people consider it to be such, and, more importantly, he points out that even thinkers whose conceptual scheme has no room for it do nonetheless appeal to it in their accounts. By claiming that luck is a cause and explaining why this is so, Aristotle lends further support to his overall account of causation and the centrality of the final cause in it, or so I claim. In addition to showing that Aristotle is committed to the claim that luck is properly to be regarded a cause, the aim of the present study is to examine his argument for this claim and to explain how luck is an indelible part of Aristotle’s overall account of causation.

• Dimas, Panagiotis (2022). On Generation and Corruption II 9. In Dimas, Panagiotis (Eds.), Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption Book II. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781009239981. p. 192–215. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2021). The significance of Plato's Statesman. In Dimas, Panagiotis (Eds.), Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780192898296. p. 1–12. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2021). De Incessu Animalium 4, Aristotle's conception of Dimension, Aristotle on How Animals Move. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108868228. p. 117–134. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2020). Epicurus on Pleasure and the Good. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP). ISSN 0265-7651. 57. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2020). Plato on Desiring to act Justly. Δευκαλίων. ISSN 1105-8102. 34(1-2), p. 75–110. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2019). Two Ways in which Pleasures can be False: Philebus 36c-42c. In Dimas, Panagiotis (Eds.), Plato's Philebus A Philosophical Discussion. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198803386. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This is the first volume of the series "Plato Dialogue Project" (PDP). PDP is a research tool for Platonic scholarship that emulates the Symposium Aristotelicum. It holds meetings every third year at different research institutions around the world, with each meeting devoted to a single Platonic work. Central to this enterprise is the concern that the entire Platonic text under study, not just selected parts of it, be subject to rigorous philosophical analysis. PDP's ambition is to deliver such an analysis for the entire Platonic Corpus.

• Dimas, Panagiotis (2015). Epicurus on Pleasure, Desire, and Friendship. In Fossheim, Hallvard; Rabbås, Øyvind; Emilsson, Eyjólfur Kjalar & Tuominen, Miira (Ed.), The Quest for the Good Life. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198746980. p. 164–182. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2015). Wanting to Do What Is Just in the Gorgias. In Fossheim, Hallvard; Rabbås, Øyvind; Emilsson, Eyjólfur Kjalar & Tuominen, Miira (Ed.), The Quest for the Good Life. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198746980. p. 66–87. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2014). Knowing and Wanting in the Hippias Minor. Philosophical Inquiry. ISSN 1105-235X. 38(3-4), p. 106–118. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2014). Our Death. Rhizomata. ISSN 2196-5102. 2(1), p. 52–79. doi: 10.1515/rhiz-2014-0003. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2011). Fortelling, teori og virkelighet i Staten og Timaios. In Gundersen, Karin & Lending, Mari (Ed.), Kopi & original. Inversjoner i opprinnelsestenkningens historie. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230400777. p. 207–225. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2008). Good and Pleasure in the Protagoras. Ancient Philosophy: A Journal devoted to Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science. ISSN 0740-2007. p. 253–284. Full text in Research Archive
• Fossheim, Hallvard; Andersen, Øivind; Dimas, Panagiotis; Emilsson, Eyjólfur Kjalar; Løkke, Håvard & Rabbås, Øyvind (2007). Kommentar til Kallikles-episoden: Gorgias 481b-522e. Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1943. 42(1-2), p. 80–150. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2007). Teachers of Virtue. Ancient Philosophy: A Journal devoted to Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science. ISSN 0740-2007. p. 1–23. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2006). Euthyphro's Thesis Revisited. Phronesis. ISSN 0031-8868. 51(1), p. 1–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2005). Value and Volition in Socrates and the Philoctetes. Philosophical Inquiry. ISSN 1105-235X. XXVII(1-2), p. 187–202. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2004). Recollecting Forms in the Phaedo. Phronesis. ISSN 0031-8868. XLIX(1). Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2004). Socrates' Epistemic Standing with Respect to Virtue, part II. Philosophical Inquiry. ISSN 1105-235X. XXVI(4), p. 9–26. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2003). Does Socrates Have a Method? (review). Philsophy in Review. XXIII(&). Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2003). Socrates' Epistemic Standing with Respect to Virtue, part I. Philosophical Inquiry. ISSN 1105-235X. XXV(3-4), p. 1-–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2003). Does Socrates Have a Method? Philosophy in Review (PIR). ISSN 1206-5269. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2003). Socrates' Epistemic Standing with Respect to Virtue. Philosophical Review. ISSN 0031-8108. XXV(3-4), p. 1–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2002). Happiness in the Euthydemus. Phronesis. ISSN 0031-8868. XLVII(01), p. 1–27. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Present a novel account of Socrates' conception of happiness in the Eythudemus

• Dimas, Panagiotis (2000). Greek Philosophy and Science: Plato, Greek Philosphy and Science. Greek Open University; Patra. ISSN 9789605382902. p. 121–160. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Discusses Plato's early psychology of action as this relates to his ethical theories

• Dimas, Panagiotis (1996). Thomson on Trolley and Consent. Ratio Juris. ISSN 0952-1917. IX(2). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Argues that Thomson's solution to the trolley problem is inadequate. An alternative solution is proposed

• Dimas, Panagiotis (1996). True Belief in the Meno. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP). ISSN 0265-7651. p. 1–35. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Argues that the theory of recollection in the Meno addresses the problem of discovery

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• Dimas, Panagiotis (2022). Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption Book II. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009239981. 298 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2021). Aristotle on How Animals Move. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108868228. 315 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2021). Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192898296. 304 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2019). Plato's Philebus A Philosophical Discussion. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198803386. 304 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This is the first volume of the series "Plato Dialogue Project" (PDP). PDP is a research tool for Platonic scholarship that emulates the Symposium Aristotelicum. It holds meetings every third year at different research institutions around the world, with each meeting devoted to a single Platonic work. Central to this enterprise is the concern that the entire Platonic text under study, not just selected parts of it, be subject to rigorous philosophical analysis. PDP's ambition is to deliver such an analysis for the entire Platonic Corpus.

• Dimas, Panagiotis (2005). Dialoger om Demokrati. Transit. ISBN 9788275960458. 13 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Saugstad, Jens & Dimas, Panagiotis (2007). Er Richard Rorty en stor tenker? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2003). Recollecting Forms in the Phaedo. Full text in Research Archive
• Dimas, Panagiotis (2002). Good and Pleasure in the Gorgias and Protagoras. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Argue that Socrates' views in the Protagoras on the realationship between goodness and pleasure are incompatible with hedonism

• Dimas, Panagiotis (2002). Our own Death. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Argue that Epicurus' views on our own death are incompatible with his hedonism.

• Dimas, Panagiotis (1998). Virtue, Eudaimonia and the Facilitators in the EUTHYDEMUS. Full text in Research Archive

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