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    The Presocratic Philosophers.Jonathan Barnes - 1979 - New York: Routledge.
    The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought.
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    Presocratics.Jacob Graham - 2015 - The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Presocratics Presocratic philosophers are the Western thinkers preceding Socrates but including some thinkers who were roughly contemporary with Socrates, such as Protagoras. The application of the term “philosophy” to the Presocratics is somewhat anachronistic, but is certainly different from how many people currently think of philosophy. The … Continue reading Presocratics →.
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    The Presocratics After Heidegger.David C. Jacobs (ed.) - 1999 - State University of New York Press.
    Reads Presocratics such as Homer, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Empedocles from within the realm opened up by Heidegger's thinking.
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    The presocratic philosophers.Jonathan Barnes - 1982 - New York: Routledge.
    This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
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    The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels: Akten Der 9. Tagung Der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung Vom 5.-7. Oktober 2006 in München.Oliver Primavesi & Katharina Luchner (eds.) - 2011 - Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
    The present book is the result of a conference supported by the Karl-und-Gertrud-Abel-Stiftung which was dedicated to the reception of the Presocratics in the western world from the 12th to the 19th century. The chapters of the book are based on papers given at the conference. For publication, they have been revised and some of them have been amplified to a considerable extent.
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    A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia.Patricia Curd (ed.) - 2011 - Hackett Publishing Company.
    Building on the virtues that made the first edition of _A Presocratics Reader_ the most widely used sourcebook for the study of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even more value and a wider selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates. With revised introductions, annotations, suggestions for further reading, and more, the second edition draws on the wealth of new scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past decade or more, a (...)
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    Presocratic Cosmologies.M. R. Wright - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA.
    This article explores early Greeks' cosmological speculation, showing how they explored the possibility of a “theory of everything” and human understanding of the cosmos. In the exposition of competitive cosmologies, there are three questions still unresolved: the form of most of the matter in the universe is not known; the process of beginning of the universe is not known; and whether the universe is finite or infinite is also not known. Presocratic solutions to these problems, still perplexing to the contemporaries, (...)
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    The presocratic philosophers.G. S. Kirk - 1957 - Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press. Edited by J. E. Raven.
    This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.
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    Presocratic reflexivity: the construction of philosophical discourse c. 600-450 BC.Barry Sandywell - 1996 - New York: Routledge.
    How did Western philosophy begin? What are the relationships between the construction of self-reflection and the social context and political institutions of ancient Greek society? In this third volume of Logological Investigations Sandywell continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of reflexive thought and discourse with special reference to Presocratic philosophy and science and their sociopolitical context. He begins by criticizing traditional histories of philosophy which abstract speculative thought from its sociocultural and historical contexts, and proposes instead an explicitly contextual (...)
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    Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction.Catherine Osborne - 2004 - Oxford University Press.
    This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the presocratics, even though we have very few of their writings left. In this book, Catherine Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, to (...)
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    A Presocratics Reader.Patricia Curd & Richard D. McKirahan - 1996 - Hackett Publishing Company.
    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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    The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger.W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz - 2016 - Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
    There are only a few publications devoted to the subject of Heidegger and the Presocratics, some of them already outdated, most of them embedded in Heidegger’s obscure philosophical jargon, and none of them treating the subject exhaustively. Therefore, there is a need for a new, critical presentation of Heidegger’s account of Presocratic thought. However, the purpose of this book is not only to provide such a critical presentation. It raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. (...)
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    The Presocratics.Edward Hussey - 1972 - New York,: Scribner.
    This comprehensive account of the history of ancient Greek thought circa 600 to 400 B.C. offers an accessible, nontechnical introduction to Presocratic philosophy.
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    The Presocratic Philosophers.Gregory Vlastos - 1959 - Philosophical Review 68 (4):531.
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    The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts.G. S. Kirk & J. E. Raven - 1983 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by J. E. Raven & Malcolm Schofield.
    This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.
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    Presocratic philosophy.Patricia Curd - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance.André Laks - 2018 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the (...)
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    Presocratics: Natural Philosophers Before Socrates.James Warren & Steven Gerrard - 2007 - University of California Press.
    The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It also saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas, from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account of one unchanging existence to the development of an atomist theory of the physical world. This general account of the Presocratics introduces the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth to the middle of (...)
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    The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger.Michal Bizon - 2019 - Philosophical Quarterly 69 (276):644-647.
    The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger. By Korab-Karpowicz W. Julian..).
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  20. Presocratics and Plato: Festschrift at Delphi in Honor of Charles Kahn.Richard Patterson, Vassilis Karasmanis & Arnold Hermann (eds.) - 2013 - Parmenides Publishing.
    This celebratory Festschrift dedicated to Charles Kahn comprises some 23 articles by friends, former students and colleagues, many of whom first presented their papers at the international "Presocratics and Plato" Symposium in his honor. The conference was organized and sponsored by the HYELE Institute for Comparative Studies, Parmenides Publishing, and Starcom AG, with endorsements from the International Plato Society, and the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. While Kahn's work reaches far beyond the (...) and Plato, it is in these subject areas that the distinction of his scholarship has come to be regarded as virtually unrivaled. The articles contributed to this volume are by some of the most renowned scholars working on these topics today, their breadth and depth bearing witness to his profound impact and influence on the discipline of Ancient Greek Philosophy._ Charles Kahn taught Classics and Philosophy at Columbia University from 1957 to 1965, and has since been teaching in the Philosophy Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He spent a year as Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and had additional Visiting Fellowships at Balliol College, Oxford and Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a term as Visiting Professor at Harvard. He is the recipient of several prestigious research grants, from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2000 he was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of _Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology, The Verb “Be” in Ancient Greek, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, and Essays on Being_. His latest book,_Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue_, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. _ Contributors: Julia Annas Sarah Broadie Lesley Brown Tomás Calvo-Martínez Diskin Clay John M. Dillon Dorothea Frede Arnold Hermann Carl A. Huffman Enrique Hülsz Piccone D. M. Hutchinson Paul Kalligas Vassilis Karasmanis Aryeh Kosman Anthony A. Long Richard McKirahan Susan Sauvé Meyer Alexander P.D.Mourelatos Satoshi Ogihara Richard Patterson Christopher J. Rowe David Sedley Richard Sorabji. (shrink)
     
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  21. The Presocratics in Thomas Stanley's History of philosophy.Carl Huffman - 2011 - In Oliver Primavesi & Katharina Luchner, The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels: Akten Der 9. Tagung Der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung Vom 5.-7. Oktober 2006 in München. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.
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    The presocratics and the supernatural: magic, philosophy and science in early Greece.Andrew Gregory - 2013 - London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy of magical practices? Did they use animism, astrology, numerology and mysticism in their explanations of the world? This book analyses the evidence in detail and argues that we need to look at each of these beliefs in context.
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    The Presocratic Philosophers. A Critical History with a Selection of Texts.Peter Diamadopoulos, G. S. Kirk & J. E. Raven - 1960 - American Journal of Philology 81 (1):100.
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  24. The Presocratics.Philip Ellis Wheelwright - 1966 - New York,: Odyssey Press.
  25. Presocratic epistemology.Daniel W. Graham - 2018 - In Nicholas D. Smith, The philosophy of knowledge: a history. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
     
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  26. The presocratics in book 1 of Lucretius' De rerum natura.W. J. Tatum - 2007 - In Monica Gale, Lucretius. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Presocratic theology.T. M. Robinson - 2008 - In Patricia Curd & Daniel W. Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press USA.
    If in the context of early and classical Greek thought, the term “theology” is taken to mean “of God/gods/the gods and his/their putative relationship, causal and directive, to the world and its operations, and to ourselves within that world,” or something of that order, the first ascription of such a notion to a Presocratic philosopher is to be found in Aristotle's comment that “Thales thought that all things are full of gods”. The Presocratic period ends with no neat causal sequence. (...)
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    Collections Containing Articles on Presocratic Philosophy.Richard D. McKirahan - unknown
    This catalogue is divided into two parts. Part 1 presents basic bibliographical information on books and journal issues that consist exclusively or in large part in papers devoted to the Presocratics and the Sophists. Part 2 lists the papers on Presocratic and Sophistic topics found in the volumes, providing name of author, title, and page numbers, and in the case of reprinted papers, the year of original publication. In some cases Part 2 lists the complete contents of volumes, not (...)
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  29. The Presocratic Philosophers.G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven & M. Schofield - 1983 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (4):465-469.
     
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  30. Presocratic accounts of perception and cognition.Patricia Curd - 2018 - In John E. Sisko, Philosophy of mind in antiquity. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
     
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  31. Comparative Hindu and Presocratic Philosophy.Ferdinand Tablan - 2002 - Filosophia 31 (1):16-31.
    This paper aims to synthesize two equally impressive systems of thought: Indian philosophy in the East and Presocratic philosophy in the West, which are separated not only by space and time but by our prejudices. It attempts to show the universality of philosophy by exploring the parallelisms and similarities, clarifying contrasts, and highlighting the common themes that are emphasized and de-emphasized in them. The study does not intend to give a complete account of the early Greek and Hindu thoughts. The (...)
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    Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos.Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Victor Miles Caston & Daniel W. Graham (eds.) - 2002 - Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate.
    This book presents some of the most recent trends and developments in Presocratic scholarship. A wide range of topics are covered - from the metaphysical to the moral to the methodological - as well as a broad a range of authors: from recognized figures such as Heraclitus and Parmenides to Sophistic thinkers whose place has traditionally been marginalized, such as Gorgias and the author of the Dissoi Logoi. Several of the pieces are concerned with the later reception and influence of (...)
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  33. One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy.Michael C. Stokes - 1971 - Washington,: Upa.
    Originally published by the Center for Hellenic Studies, this book investigates the extent to which the Presocratics were hamstrung by their lack of detailed conceptual framework in the case of the words "one" and "many." This investigation is based on Aristotle's analyses.
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    Presocratic Philosophers on the Limits to Science and the Conditions of its Authority.Constantine Despotopoulos - 2007 - Philosophical Inquiry 29 (3-4):1-4.
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    The Presocratic Philosophers. A Critical History with a Selection of Texts. G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven.George Goldat - 1960 - Isis 51 (2):229-231.
  36. The Presocratic Philosophers. A Critical History with a Selection of Texts.Geoffrey Stephen Kirk & John Earle Raven - 1983 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by J. E. Raven & Malcolm Schofield.
    A history of the pre-Socratic philosophers, with selected writings and texts.
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    (1 other version)Plotinus and the Presocratics: A Philosophical Study of Presocratic Influences in Plotinus' Enneads.Giannis Stamatellos - 2007 - State University of New York Press.
    The first book-length philosophical study on the Presocratic influences in Plotinus’ Enneads.
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  38. Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy.John Anderson Palmer - 2009 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being, necessary non-being or impossibility, and non-necessary or contingent being. This book accordingly reconsiders his place in the historical development of Presocratic philosophy in light of this new interpretation. Careful treatment of Parmenides' specification of the ways of inquiry that define his metaphysical and epistemological outlook paves the way for detailed analyses (...)
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    Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources. Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at the University of Trier.Christian Vassallo (ed.) - 2019 - Berlin: De Gruyter.
    The papyri transmit a part of the testimonia relevant to pre-Socratic philosophy. The ʼCorpus dei Papiri Filosofici‛ takes this material only partly into account. In this volume, a team of specialists discusses some of the most important papyrological texts that are major instruments for reconstructing pre-Socratic philosophy and doxography. Furthermore, these texts help to increase our knowledge of how pre-Socratic thought – through contributions to physics, cosmology, ethics, ontology, theology, anthropology, hermeneutics, and aesthetics – paved the way for the canonic (...)
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  40. New work on the presocratics.Patricia Curd - 2011 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (1):1-37.
    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 our understanding (...)
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    Studies in Presocratic Philosophy Volume 1: The Beginnings of Philosophy.David Furley & Reginald E. Allen (eds.) - 1970 - Routledge.
    Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover: The nature of Presocratic thought The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics The earliest philosophers up to Heraclitus.
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    The Presocratics.Elizabeth Asmis & Edward Hussey - 1975 - Philosophical Review 84 (2):287.
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    The Presocratics at Herculaneum: a study of early Greek philosophy in the Epicurean tradition.Christian Vassallo - 2021 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Parallel to the edition volumes of the series Traditio Praesocratica, in which texts of early Greek natural philosophers are presented in a critical edition with translation, the series Studia Praesocratica presents commentaries, monographs and collective volumes on early Greek philosophy and its doxography.
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    Introduction to Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key Readings.Giannis Stamatellos - 2012 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Introduction to Presocratics presents a succinct introduction to Greek thinkers of the 6th and 5th century BCE and a thematic exploration of the topics and enquiries opened by these first philosophers and scientists of the Western tradition. Offers a concise, thematically organized introduction to the Presocratics Includes a previously unpublished translation of the main fragments of the Presocratics by Classics scholar Rosemary Wright Covers key figures including Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes of Miletus, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Parmenides and (...)
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  45. Plato and the Presocratics.James Lesher - 2012 - In Associate Editors: Francisco Gonzalez Gerald A. Press, The Continuum Companion to Plato. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 21-24.
    Plato refers frequently to the views held by the early Greek thinkers we today call ‘the Presocratics’, typically while lining up witnesses for or against a philosophical thesis. His characters speak approvingly of the doctrines of Parmenides and the Pythagoreans but repudiate in the strongest terms the teachings of ‘atheistic materialists’ such as the Milesian inquirers into nature we today regard as the founders of Western philosophy and science. The chief failings of the materialists lay in not acknowledging the (...)
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  46. Presocratic minds.M. R. Wright - 1990 - In Christopher Gill, The Person and the human mind: issues in ancient and modern philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    The Presocratics.R. J. Hankinson - 1998 - In Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought. New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this chapter, Hankinson considers the contributions to the explanation of nature of each of the major Presocratic figures. Following a brief sketch of the cosmogonies of Homer and Hesiod, Hankinson discusses the Milesian thinkers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, focussing on the presence in their thought of notions such as material monism, the principle of sufficient reason, the Unlimited, and the reduction of properties. Hankinson then discusses Xenophanes of Colophon, Heraclitus, Alcmaeon, Parmenides and his followers Zeno and Melissus, as well (...)
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    The Presocratic Philosophers. Volume 1: Thales to Zeno. Volume 2: Empedocles to Democritus.Jonathan Barnes - 1981 - Journal of Philosophy 78 (5):279-287.
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    The Presocratics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger by Julian W. Korab-Karpowicz.Katherine Morris - 2019 - Review of Metaphysics 73 (1):143-144.
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    The presocratic philosophers: an annotated bibliography.Luis E. Navia - 1993 - New York: Garland.
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