Ancient Relativity

Matthew Duncombe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Durham University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Groningen. He studied philosophy and Classics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests focus on ancient Greek philosophy, particularly logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.

• 1: Introduction 2: Constitutive Relativity in Plato 3: Relativity and Separation in the Theory of Forms 4: Relativity and Partition in Republic 4 5: Relativity in Categories 7, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations 6: Aristotle on the Distinction Between Substances and Relatives 7: Relativity in Aristotle's Metaphysics 5.15 8: Relativity and Independence in Aristotle's On Ideas 9: Stoic Relativity 10: Relativity in Stoic Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethics 11: Relativity Against Dogmatism in Sextus Empiricus 12: Conclusion

This book is a rare kind of achievement in ancient scholarship, dealing as it does with a subject that is understudied and yet, as Duncombe convincingly shows, indispensable for properly understanding ancient philosophical thought on many key topics. Given the range of problems on which the book makes new progress, it will be a rewarding read for just about anyone working on Greek philosophy.