Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought
Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought

Author: R. J. Hankinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 0199246564

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R. J. Hankinson traces the history of ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation, from its earliest beginnings through more than a thousand years to the middle of the first millennium of the Christian era. He examines ways in which the Ancient Greeks dealt with questions about how and why things happen as and when they do, about the basic constitution and structure of things, about function and purpose, laws of nature, chance, coincidence, and responsibility.

The Greek Cosmologists: Volume 1, The Formation of the Atomic Theory and Its Earliest Critics
The Greek Cosmologists: Volume 1, The Formation of the Atomic Theory and Its Earliest Critics

Author: David Furley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-03

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0521333288

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This first volume takes the story from its beginnings in Ionian philosophy as far as the formation of the Atomic Theory and the first criticisms of it by Plato and Aristotle. The second volume will describe the cosmology of Plato and Aristotle, the attempt by Epicurean opponents to revive Atomism and later developments of the debate in classical philosophy and science up to the sixth century of our era. Both are accessible to anyone interested in the history of science and philosophy, even if they have no specialized knowledge of Greek philosophy and no Greek; but professional scholars too will find much of importance to them.

Reader's Guide to the History of Science
Reader's Guide to the History of Science

Author: Arne Hessenbruch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 986

ISBN-13: 1134263015

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The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.

Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 5: Sources on Biology (Human Physiology, Living Creatures, Botany: Texts 328-435)
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 5: Sources on Biology (Human Physiology, Living Creatures, Botany: Texts 328-435)

Author: Robert Sharples

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9004320865

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This is the first to appear of the projected volumes of commentary to accompany the texts and translations on Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others ("FHSG" (Philosophia Antiqua 54); Leiden, Brill, 1992). It covers the ancient secondary evidence for Theophrastus' views on physiology, zoology and botany; the transmission, reliability and doctrinal content of the reports in the text-and-translation volume are all discussed in detail, and general overviews are provided. The commentary is an indispensable accompaniment to the text-and-translation volume, and the two together will be an important resource for students of the history of the biological sciences in antiquity.

Greek Thought
Greek Thought

Author: Jacques Brunschwig

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1084

ISBN-13: 9780674002616

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In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought, investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the possibilities of knowing. 65 color illustrations. Maps.

Emotions in Plato
Emotions in Plato

Author: Laura Candiotto

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-05-11

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9004432272

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Emotions in Plato, through a detailed analysis of emotions such as shame, anger, fear, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship, offers a fresh account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory.