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142New work on the presocraticsJournal of the History of Philosophy 49 (1): 1-37. 2011.The last twenty years have seen a remarkable increase in scholarly work on the Presocratics: new texts have appeared, new interpretations have been advanced, and a new appreciation for the scientific and philosophical claims of the early Greek thinkers is evident.1 There has been a general broadening of the questions that have been examined: scholars have been exploring the supposed boundaries of Presocratic thought, and new work on reception history and on the transmission of texts has enriched…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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