The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy

& (eds.)
Oxford University Press USA (2008)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

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 and from theology to science

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2011

Call number

B187.5.O94 2008

ISBN(s)

0199837554   9780195146875   9780199837557   0195146875   0199793573   9780199892112   0199892113

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,486

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Chapters

Anaxagoras and the theory of everything.Patricia Curd
Atomism's Eleatic roots.David Sedley
Classical representations and uses of the presocratics.John Palmer
Empedocles : physical and mythical divinity.Oliver Primavesi
Heraclitus : flux, order, and knowledge.Daniel W. Graham
Heraclitus: Flux, Order, and Knowledge.Daniel W. Graham
Introduction.Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham
Leucippus's atomism.Daniel W. Graham
Prehistory of presocratic philosophy in an orientalizing context.Walter Burkert
Presocratic Cosmologies.M. R. Wright
Presocratic theology.T. M. Robinson
Reason, cause, and explanation in presocratic philosophy.R. J. Hankinson
Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8.Richard McKirahan
Signs and arguments in the Parmenides B.Richard McKirahan
Speculating about Diogenes of Apollonia.André Laks
The Sophists.Michael Gagarin & Paul Woodruff
The Sources for Presocratic Philosophy.David T. Runia
The cloud-astrophysics of Xenophanes and Ionian material monism.Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
The humanizing of knowledge in presocratic thought.J. H. Lesher
The role of medicine in the formation of early Greek thought.Philip van der Eijk
The sources of presocratic philosophy.David T. Runia
Aristotle's account of the origins of philosophy.  (pages 9-44)Michael Frede
Milesian measures: time, space, and matter.  (pages 89-133)Stephen White
Two problems in Pythagoreanism.  (pages 284)Carl Huffman
A Su1table Subject for Treatment.  (pages 413)Mr Wright
The Humanizing of Knowledge in Presocratic Thought’.  (pages 458-484)James Lesher

Similar books and articles

Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Edited by Patricia Curd and Daniel Graham. [REVIEW]Barbara Sattler - 2013 - Ancient Philosophy 33 (1):187-193.
Patricia Curd and Daniel W. Graham, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Reviewed by.Taneli Kukkonen - 2010 - Philosophy in Review 30 (5):320-323.
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Edited by Patricia Curd and Daniel W. Graham. Pp. xii, 588, Oxford University Press, 2008, £87.00/$150.00. [REVIEW]Robin Waterfield - 2016 - Heythrop Journal 57 (1):145-146.
The Presocratics - Curd, Graham The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Pp. xii + 588. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-0-19-514687-5. [REVIEW]Jenny Bryan - 2010 - The Classical Review 60 (2):366-368.
A Su1table Subject for Treatment.Mr Wright - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA. pp. 413.
Introduction.Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA.
Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos.Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Victor Miles Caston & Daniel W. Graham (eds.) - 2002 - Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate.
Classical representations and uses of the presocratics.John Palmer - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA.
Presocratic theology.T. M. Robinson - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-07-30

Downloads
143 (#161,863)

6 months
17 (#158,396)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Patricia Curd
Purdue University
Daniel W. Graham
Brigham Young University

Citations of this work

Alcmaeon.Carl Huffman - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Endoxa and Epistemology in Aristotle’s Topics.Joseph Bjelde - 2021 - In Joseph Andrew Bjelde, David Merry & Christopher Roser, Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity. Cham: Springer. pp. 201-214.

View all 8 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references