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33Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 140-141. 1993.Denyer sets out to explain a puzzle about early Greek philosophers: Why are these early thinkers so worried about the possibility of false statement and false judgment? Denyer begins by pointing out that modern philosophers are more worried by truth: for them the problem is to explain how we can make true judgments, not how false ones are possible.
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14Two Studies in the Early Academy (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (3): 605-607. 1993.Here is a welcome reminder that not all members of the Academy were Platonists; that the Academy must have been a lively place, full of discussion and disagreement; and that Platonism itself is not monolithic. The focus is, as the title promises, doctrines maintained by two associates of the early Academy: the immanentism of Eudoxus and Speusippus's view that although The One is the first principle, it is not an existent.
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31Plato's Parmenides by Constance C. Meinwald (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (3): 627-628. 1992.
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98Knowledge and Unity in HeraclitusThe Monist 74 (4): 531-549. 1991.In this paper I argue that the logos, the primary object of knowledge in Heraclitus’ epistemology, is a unity both as an object of knowledge and as an instance of being rather than becoming. Section I begins with discussions of knowledge and Heraclitus’ conception of logos; section II is concerned with knowledge and unity. The two later sections of the paper explore the consequences of the account I attribute to Heraclitus: section III considers being, unity, and change; and section IV discusses…Read more
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53A New Empedocles? Implications of the Strasburg Fragments for Presocratic PhilosophyProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 17 (1): 27-59. 2002.
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29The Divine and the Thinkable Toward an account of the intelligible cosmosRhizomata 1 (2): 217-247. 2013.
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19Colloquium 1: Thought and Body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras1Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 25 (1): 1-41. 2010.
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53AnaxagorasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2007.Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (a major Greek city of Ionian Asia Minor), a Greek philosopher of the 5th century B.C.E. (born ca. 500–480), was the first of the Presocratic philosophers to live in Athens. He propounded a physical theory of “everything-in-everything,” and claimed that nous (intellect or mind) was the motive cause of the cosmos. He was the first to give a correct explanation of eclipses, and was both famous and notorious for his scientific theories, including the claims that the sun is …Read more
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38The Presocratics (J.) Warren Presocratics. Pp. xvi + 224, map. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007. Paper, £15.99 (Cased, £45). ISBN: 978-1-84465-092-7 (978-1-84465-091-0 hbk) (review)The Classical Review 59 (2): 374-. 2009.
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37Review of Aldo Brancacci, Pierre-Marie Morel (eds.), Democritus: Science, the Arts, and the Care of the Soul (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (12). 2008.
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18A Presocratics ReaderHackett Publishing Company. 1996.Ideal for a two-to-three week introduction to the Presocratics and Sophists, this volume offers a selection of the extant remains of early Greek philosophical thought on cosmology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, together with unobtrusive, minimally interpretive editorial material: an introduction, brief headnotes, maps, and a concordance.
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27The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic ThoughtParmenides Publishing. 2004.Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. He rejected as impossible the scientific inquiry practiced by the earlier Presocratic philosophers and held that generation, destruction, and change are unreal and that only one thing exists. In this book, Patricia Curd argues that Parmenides sought to reform rather than to reject scientific inquiry, and she offers a more coherent account of his influence on later philosophers._ _The Legacy of Parmenides_ examine…Read more
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23David Sider and Dirk Obbink , Doctrine and Doxography: Studies on Heraclitus and PythagorasRhizomata 4 (2): 276-287. 2016.
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87Anaxagoras and the theory of everythingIn Patricia Curd & Daniel Graham (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy, Oxford University Press Usa. 2008.Anaxagoras of Clazomenae proposed a theory of everything. Like other Presocratics, Anaxagoras addressed topics that could now be placed outside the sphere of philosophical inquiry: not only did he explore metaphysics and the nature of human understanding but he also offered explanations in physics, meteorology, astronomy, physiology, and biology. His aim seems to have been to explain as completely as possible the world in which human beings live, and one's knowledge of that world; thus he seeks …Read more
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20The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (3): 429-430. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek PhilosophyPatricia CurdA. A. Long, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxii + 427. Cloth, $54.95. Paper, $19.95.The Cambridge Companions are designed both to introduce and to survey, aims that anyone who teaches introductory courses knows are not fully compatible. The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosoph…Read more
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13Review of gbor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (9). 2006.
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2The Metaphysics of Physics: Mixture and Separation in Empedocles and AnaxagorasIn Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Victor Miles Caston & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos, Ashgate. pp. 139--58. 2002.
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21Introduction to the Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key ReadingsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (6): 1230-1232. 2013.No abstract
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