Early Greek philosophy : the Presocratics and the emergence of reason / edited by Joe McCoy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCoy, Joe.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 57.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; volume 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2013.

Contents:

The achievement of early Greek philosophy: a drama in five acts: from Thales to the Timaeus / Charles Kahn

Anaximander's Apeiron. and the arrangement of time / Kurt Pritzl

The problem of evil in Heraclitus / Kenneth Dorter

Reason and myth in early Pythagorean cosmology / Carl A. Huffman

A systematic Xenophanes? / J.H. Lesher

Parmenides, early Greek astronomy, and modern scientific realism / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos

Where are love and strife?: incorporeality in Empedocles / Patricia Curd

Anaxagoras: science and speculation in the golden age / Daniel W. Graham

Bacon's third sailing: the Presocratic origins of modern philosophy / John C. McCarthy

Primal truth, errant tradition, and crisis: the Presocratics in late modernity / Richard Velkley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and indexes.

Contains:

Kahn, Charles H. Achievement of early Greek philosophy.

ISBN:

9780813221212

0813221218

OCLC:

819717683