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Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought / R.J. Hankinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hankinson, R. J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation--History.
- Causation.
- Explanation--History.
- Explanation.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 499 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work traces the history of ancient Greek thought about causation and explanation. It examines ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen, about the constitution and structure of things, laws of nature, and more.
- Contents:
- The Presocratics
- Prehistory
- The Milesians
- Causal Origination
- Pluralism and Emergence
- Science and Sophistry
- Rational Medicine
- The Sophists
- History
- Plato
- Metaphysics and Causation
- Causation and the Soul
- Hypothesis and Explanation
- Timaeus: The Model Applied
- Coda: Mathematical and Astronomical Theory
- Aristotle: Explanation and Nature
- The Structure of Reality
- Causation and Coincidence
- Teleological Explanation
- The Explanation of Action
- Aristotle: Explanation and the World
- Demonstration and Explanation
- Observation and Science
- Theophrastus and After
- The Atomists
- Democritus
- Epicureanism and Explanation
- Freedom and the Explanation of Action
- Later Epicurean Scientific Epistemology
- The Stoics
- Stoic Causal Theory
- Freedom and Determinism
- Stoic Cosmology
- The Sceptics
- The Development of Scepticism
- Aenesidemus against the Aetiologists
- The General Attack on Causes
- The Modes of Agrippa
- Scepticism and Science
- Explanation in the Medical Schools
- The Limits of Explanation
- Empiricism and Rationalism
- Methodism
- The Age of Synthesis
- The Origins of Syncretism
- The Convergence of the Schools
- The Emergence of Middle Platonism
- The Revival of Aristotelianism: Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Science and Explanation
- Ptolemy
- Galen: The Structure of Causation
- The Aristotelian Influence
- Galen's Teleology
- Powers, Functions, and Activities
- The Neoplatonists
- The Roots of Neoplatonism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-159757-0
- 0-19-924656-4
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