The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy 1st Edition by Patricia Curd, Daniel W Graham ISBN 0195146875 9780195146875

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ISBN 10: 0195146875 
ISBN 13: 9780195146875
Author:  Patricia Curd, Daniel W Graham

In the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. a new kind of thinker appeared in Greek city-states, dedicated to finding the origins of the world and everything in it, using observation and reason rather than tradition and myth. We call these thinkers Presocratic philosophers, and recognize them as the first philosophers of the Western tradition, as well as the originators of scientific thinking. New textual discoveries and new approaches make a reconsideration of the Presocratics at the beginning of the twenty-first century especially timely. This handbook brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy. More than a survey of scholarship, this study presents new interpretations and evaluations of the Presocratics’ accomplishments, from Thales to the sophists, from theology to science, and from pre-philosophical background to their influence on later thinkers. Many positions presented here challenge accepted wisdom and offer alternative accounts of Presocratic theories. This handbook includes chapters on the Milesians (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes), Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, the Pythagoreans, the atomists, and the sophists. Special studies are devoted to the sources of Presocratic philosophy, oriental influences, Hippocratic medicine, cosmology, explanation, epistemology, theology, and the reception of Presocratic thought in Aristotle and other ancient authors.

The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Background
1. The Sources for Presocratic Philosophy
2. Prehistory of Presocratic Philosophy in an Orientalizing Context
Part II: Figures and Movements
3. Milesian Measures: Time, Space, and Matter
4. The Cloud-Astrophysics of Xenophanes and Ionian Material Monism
5. Heraclitus: Flux, Order, and Knowledge
6. Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8
7. Anaxagoras and the Theory of Everything
8. Empedocles: Physical and Mythical Divinity
9. Two Problems in Pythagoreanism
10. Atomism’s Eleatic Roots
11. Leucippus’s Atomism
12. Speculating about Diogenes of Apollonia
13. The Sophists
Part III: Topics
14. The Role of Medicine in the Formation of Early Greek Thought
15. Presocratic Cosmologies
16. Reason, Cause, and Explanation in Presocratic Philosophy
17. The Humanizing of Knowledge in Presocratic Thought
18. Presocratic Theology
Part IV: Reception
19. Aristotle’s Account of the Origins of Philosophy
20. Classical Representations and Uses of the Presocratics

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