Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI

Anthony Preus is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and the secretary of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.

• IntroductionAnthony Preus 1. Anaximander's Measurements RevisitedGerard Naddaf 2. Anaximander's Discovery of SpaceDirk L. Couprie 3. Anaximander's Infinite WorldsRichard McKirahan 4. The Philolaic Method: The Pythagoreanism Behind the PhilebusCarl Huffman 5. Zeno Moves!Wallace I. Matson 6. "Whole-Natured Forms" in Empedocles's Cosmic CycleJoel Wilcox 7. Atomic Independence and IndivisibilityIstvan M. Bodnar 8. Why Democritus Was Not a SkepticPatricia Curd 9. The Truth of Antiphon's Truth Michael Gagarin 10. The Dissoi Logoi and Early Greek SkepticismThomas M. Robinson 11. Moral Dilemmas and Integrity in Sophocles's PhiloctetesCarol Steinberg Gould BibliographyContributorsIndex of Proper NamesIndex of ConceptsIndex of Classical Passages Cited

These essays explore many of the liveliest topics in the study of early Greek philosophy today; they deal with a significant range of the most important figures in the period, and represent several varying methodological approaches. Among the issues addressed include the origins of Hellenic speculative philosophy; the beginnings of "naturalistic" or "scientific" thought; the development of philosophical "schools" of thought; the reevaluation of Hegel's view of early Greek philosophy as dominated by a dialectic between the immobility of being posited by Parmenides and the absolute flux of Heraclitus; and the ways in which the work of early Greek philosophers anticipate some of the recent epistemological concerns of skeptics and postmodern philosophers.