The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy

Herausgeber: Curd, Patricia; Graham, Daniel W

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 174mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 958g
• ISBN-13: 9780199837557
• ISBN-10: 0199837554
• Artikelnr.: 33602621

Autorenporträt

Patricia Curd is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University Daniel Graham is Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University

Inhaltsangabe

* 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
André 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