Presocratic philosophy : essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos / edited by Victor Caston and Daniel W. Graham.

Other author Mourelatos, Alexander P. D., 1936-
Other author Caston, Victor, 1963-
Other author Graham, Daniel W.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants, England : Ashgate, 2002.
Descriptionxv, 346 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Thales and the stars / Stephen White -- Greek law and the presocratics / Michael Gagarin -- Heraclitus and Parmenides / Daniel W. Graham -- Parmenidean being, Heraclitean fire / Alexander Nehamas -- Parmenides and the metaphysics of changelessness / R.J. Hankinson -- Parmenides and Plato / Charles H. Kahn -- Parmenides, double-negation, and dialectic / Scott Austin -- The cosmology of mortals / Herbert Granger -- Anaxagoras, Plato and the naming of parts / David Furley -- Reading the readings : on the first person plurals in the Strasburg Empedocles / André Laks -- The metaphysics of physics : mixture and separation in Empedocles and Anaxagoras / Patricia Curd -- Democritus and Xeniades / Jacques Brunschwig -- Democritus and eudaimonism / Julia Annas -- Democritus and the explanatory power of the void / Sylvia Berryman -- Natural justice? / Paul Woodruff -- Gorgias on thought and its objects / Victor Caston -- To tell the truth : Dissoi logoi 4 and Aristotle's responses / Owen Goldin -- Archytas and the Sophists / Carl Huffman -- Aetius, Aristotle and others on coming to be and passing away / Jaap Mansfeld -- The pervasiveness of being / Paul Thom -- Three philosophers look at the stars / Sarah Broadie -- Protagoras' Great speech and Plato's defense of Athenian democracy / William Prior.
General noteFestschrift for Alexander Mourelatos.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2002112074
ISBN0754605027