Presocratic Philosophy

Daniel W. Graham, Ph.D., has been teaching Socrates for thirty-five years, first at Grinnell College, then at Rice University, and for most of his career at Brigham Young University, where he has been department chair and is currently Abraham Owen Smoot Professor of Philosophy. Victor Caston is Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies at University of Michigan.

• Contents: Introduction: The Milesians: Thales and the stars, Stephen White; Greek law and the Presocratics, Michael Gagarin; Heraclitus and Parmenides: 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; The Pluralists: Anaxagoras, Plato and the naming of parts, David Furley; Reading the readings: on the first person plurals in the Strasbourg 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; The Sophists: 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; Transmission, Traditions and Reactions: 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; Indexes.

'... this nicely put together books is a Festschrift in celebration of Alexander Mourelatos' contribution to the study of ancient philosophy... Contributors include a host of Mourelatos' colleagues and former pupils, some of whom are the most well respected scholars in the field... As a whole, the book offers a handful of very good articles on assorted subjects, as well as an ample taste of the current state of scholarly debate surrounding the Presocratics.' Prudentia