ABSTRACT

The articles in this volume deal with the four major philosophical positions of the presocratic period:

  • The arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against earlier or contemporary pluralist theories
  • The three pluralist responses of Empedocles, Anaxagoras and the early Atomists.

chapter I|47 pages

STUDIES IN PARMENIDES

chapter II|34 pages

ELEATIC QUESTIONS

chapter III|20 pages

THE PRINCIPLES OF PARMENIDES' COSMOGONY

chapter IV|41 pages

ZENO OF ELEA's ATTACKS ON PLURALITY

chapter V|23 pages

ZENO AND THE MATHEMATICIANS

chapter VI|11 pages

RAVEN'S 'PYTHAGOREANS AND ELEATICS'

chapter VII|7 pages

A NOTE ON ZENO B I

chapter VIII|17 pages

A NOTE ON ZENO'S ARROW

chapter IX|20 pages

ZENO'S RACE COURSE

chapter X|44 pages

LOVE AND STRIFE IN EMPEDOCLES' COSMOLOGY

chapter XI|10 pages

EMPEDOCLES AND THE CLEPSYDRA

chapter XII|48 pages

ANAXAGORAS' THEORY OF MATTER

chapter XIII|31 pages

THE PHYSICAL THEORY OF ANAXAGORAS

chapter XIV|7 pages

ONE WORLD OR MANY IN ANAXAGORAS?

chapter XV|20 pages

THE PHYSICAL THEORY OF ANAXAGORAS

chapter XVI|28 pages

ETHICS AND PHYSICS IN DEMOCRITUS