David Bostock (philosopher)

Following Bostock's death, a contemporary philosopher wrote of him:

His philosophical breadth was great, and his work was always characterised by clarity and precision. It was presented in a way that compelled the reader's interest – very often the reader's consent as well … he continued to think about philosophical issues until perhaps a year before he died. Then he decided that he had not read enough literature, and undertook a programme of reading all the books on his bookshelves, in the order in which they happened to have been placed.^[6]

Bostock wrote extensively on a range of philosophical issues, with particular focus on ancient philosophy. His publications included:

• Logic and Arithmetic Vol 1 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974)
• Logic and Arithmetic Vol 2 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1979)
• Plato's Phaedo (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986)^[7]
• Plato's Theaetetus (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988)
• Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books Z and H (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994)
• Introduction and notes in Aristotle's Aristotle's Physics (translated by Robin Waterfield) (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Intermediate Logic (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997),
• Aristotle's Ethics (New York, Oxford University Press, 2000)
• On Motivating Higher-Order Logic, in Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge (ed. Baldwin & Smiley, Oxford University Press, 2004)
• "The Interpretation of Plato's Crito" in Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito (ed. Kamtekar; Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
• Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2006)
• Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction (Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics, in The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (ed. Shields; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Russell's Logical Atomism (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012)