Barbara M Sattler

The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought

Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477901
• ISBN-10: 1108477909
• Artikelnr.: 60329806

Autorenporträt

Barbara Sattler is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She works mainly on metaphysics and natural philosophy in the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Conceptual Foundations
2. Parmenides's account of the object of philosophy
3. Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion and Plurality
4. The atomistic foundation for an account of motion
5. The Possibility of Natural Philosophy according to Plato I: The Logical Basis
6. The Possibility of Natural Philosophy according to Plato II: Mathematical Advances and Ultimate Problems
7. Aristotle's Notion of Continuity - the Structure underlying Motion
8. Time and Space - the Implicit Measure of Motion in Aristotle's Physics
9. Time as the simple measure of motion.