Dominic X Scott

Weight Loss Tips: Five Meals a Day for a Faster Metabolism

Do you want to lose weight?Did you know that increasing the number of meals you have will actually decrease your fat?What’s not possible in today’s world? Hardly anything! There are rarely a few things that can’t be attained; else your every dream of living the life you love can be achieved either s...

Theory of Remainders

At fifty-two, psychiatrist Philip Adler is divorced, alone, and gutted of passion. When a funeral draws him back to his ex-wife's homeland of France, the trip reunites him with a trauma he has struggled to forget: the brutal death of his teenage daughter fifteen years earlier. Prodded by his former ...

Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors

This book is concerned chiefly with theories about learning in the history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy. One of the main questions is: does our knowledge arise just out of experience or do we have some innate knowledge as well? The book is original in comparing different theories ove...

Reading Lessons: An Introduction to Theory

Written by novelist Scott Dominic Carpenter (Theory of Remainders, This Jealous Earth), this book introduces students to different methods of reading. The underlying principle is that literary theory can enhance one's appreciation of a text, and Carpenter shows how one can read in ways that remain...

The Son of Light Book 2.1: Fierce Fellowship Games

Joshua Suzuki is once again in the loving arms of his older brother, Nick. Putting his concern for the Demon Lord, Hexen aside, Josh focuses on the exciting event that his brother has placed him in—The Fierce Fellowship Games. For once Josh can be a normal teenager and have fun. But he soon finds ou...

Plato's Meno (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato)

Given its brevity, Plato's Meno covers an astonishingly wide array of topics: politics, education, virtue, definition, philosophical method, mathematics, the nature and acquisition of knowledge and immortality. Its treatment of these, though profound, is tantalisingly short, leaving the reader with ...

Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

In Levels of Argument, Dominic Scott compares the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics from a methodological perspective. In the first half he argues that the Republic distinguishes between two levels of argument in the defence of justice, the 'longer' and 'shorter' routes. The longer is the ideal and ai...

Plato's Timaeus

Maieusis: Essays on Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat

Recollection and Experience : Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors

Recollection and Experience : Plato's Theory of Learning and Its Successors

Plato's Meno