The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy

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Pub. Date: 2011-06-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Patricia Curd is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

Daniel Graham is Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University

Table of Contents


1. Introduction
2. The Sources of Presocratic Philosophy, David T.Runia
3. Prehistory of Presocratic Philosophy in an Orientalizing Context, Walter Burkert
4. Milesian Measures: Time, Space, and Matter, Stephen A. White
5. The Cloud-Astrophyics of Xenophanes and Ionian Material Monism, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
6. Heraclitus: Flux, Order, and Knowledge, Daniel W. Graham
7. Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8, Richard McKirahan
8. Anaxagoras and the Theory of Everything, Patricia Curd
9. Empedocles: Physical Divinity and Allegorical Myth, Oliver Primavesi
10. Two Problems in Pythagoreanism, Carl Huffman
11. Atomism's Eleatic Roots, David Sedley
12. Leucippus's Atomism, Daniel W. Graham
13. Speculating about Diogenes of Appolonia, Andr? Laks
14. The Sophists, Michael Gagarin and Paul Woodruff
15. The Role of Hippocratic Medicine in the Formation of Early Greek Thought, Philip van der Eijk
16. Presocratic Cosmologies, R. J. Hankinson
17. Reason, Cause, and Explanation in Presocratic Philosophy, J. H. Lesher
18. Presocratic Theology, T. M. Robinson
19. Aristotle's Account of the Origins of Philosophy, Michael Frede
20. Classical Representations and Uses of the Presocratics, John Palmer

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