TAMER NAWAR
My research interests are quite broad and span topics in the history of philosophy (especially ancient philosophy and medieval philosophy), epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language and logic.
From January 2023, I am leading a research project, Truth in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, funded by the European Research Council.
Journal Articles
'Augustine's Master Argument for the Incorporeality of the Mind', The Philosophical Quarterly 72 (2022): 422–440. [open access]
‘Clear and Distinct Perception in the Stoics, Augustine, and William of Ockham’, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 96 (2022): 185–207. [open access]
‘Conflicting Appearances, Suspension of Judgment, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism without Commitment’, Journal of the History of Philosophy 60 (2022): 537–560.
'Pyrrhonian Scepticism, the Infinite Regress of Reasons, and Ancient Infinitism', Rhizomata 10 (2022): 283–306.
'The Roots of Occasionalism? Causation, Metaphysical Dependence, and Soul-Body Relations in Augustine', Vivarium 60 (2022): 1–27. [open access]
'Every Word is a Name: Autonymy and Quotation in Augustine', Mind 130 (2021): 595–616. [open access]
'Augustine on Active Perception, Awareness, and Representation', Phronesis 66 (2021): 84–110. [open access]
'Veritism Refuted? Understanding, Idealizations, and the Facts', Synthese 198 (2021): 4295–4313. [open access]
'Augustine's Defence of Knowledge against the Sceptics', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 56 (2019): 215–265.
'Thrasymachus' Unerring Skill and the Arguments of Republic I', Phronesis 63 (2018): 359–391. [PDF preprint]
'The Stoics on Identity, Identification, and Peculiar Qualities', Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 32 (2017): 113–159.
'Platonic Know-How and Successful Action', European Journal of Philosophy 25 (2017): 944–962. [PDF] [open access]
‘Aristotelian Finitism’, Synthese 192 (2015): 2345–2360. [PDF proof]
‘Augustine on the Varieties of Understanding and Why There is No Learning from Words’, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 3 (2015): 1–31. [PDF proof]
'Augustine on the Dangers of Friendship', The Classical Quarterly 65 (2015) 836–851 [PDF proof]
‘The Stoic Account of Apprehension’, Philosophers’ Imprint 14 (2014): 1–21 [PDF] [open access]
‘Knowledge and True Belief at Theaetetus 201a-c’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2013): 1052–1070 [PDF offprint] (commended in the 2013 BSHP Essay Prize Competition)
Book Chapters
‘The Stoics and Augustine on Friendship and Altruism’, in D. Jeske (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship (Routledge, 2022), 47–57.
‘Dynamic Modalities and Teleological Agency: Plato and Aristotle on Skill and Ability’, in T. Johansen (ed.), Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 39–61.
'Democracy and Knowledge in Ancient Greece', in M. Hannon & J. de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (Routledge, 2021), 13–23.
‘The Stoic Theory of the Soul’, in K. Arenson (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy (Routledge, 2020), 148–159.
‘Relativism in Ancient Greek Philosophy’, in M. Kusch (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism (Routledge, 2020), 41–49.
‘The Augustinian Cogito and Materialist Theories of Mind’, in T. Ekenberg & J. Kaukua (eds.), Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, (Springer, 2016), 25–36.
‘Adiutrix Virtutum? Augustine on Friendship and Virtue’, in S. Stern-Gillet & G. Gurtler (eds.), Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship (SUNY Press, 2014), 197–225.
Reviews and Discussion Articles
Barnes, Proof, Knowledge, and Scepticism (OUP, 2014). In Philosophy (2015) [PDF offprint]
Groff & Greco (eds.), Powers and Capacities in Philosophy (OUP, 2013). In The Philosophical Quarterly (2014) [PDF offprint]
Burnyeat, Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy (CUP, 2012). In Philosophy (2013) [PDF offprint]
Nightingale & Sedley (eds.), Ancient Models of Mind (CUP, 2010). In Ancient Philosophy (2012) [PDF offprint]