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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Ser |
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy -- Copyright -- Advisory Board -- Editorial Note -- Contents -- The Work of Justice in Parmenides B 8 -- 1. The shackles in question -- 2. The inferential reading -- 3. Three problems -- 4. The causal reading -- 5. From conclusion to premise -- 6. The basic disjunction returns -- 7. The heavyweight reading -- 8. Heavy enough? -- 9. Stability and reliability -- 10. What enforcement means -- 11. Two dimensions of necessity -- 12. The living truth -- 13. Another path -- Bibliography -- Perfect Change in Plato's Sophist -- 1. Introduction |
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2. Rejecting the friends of the forms -- 2.1. Passage (A): The argument from knowledge (248 d 10-e 4) -- 2.2. Passage (B): The argument from nous (248 e 6-249 b 6) -- 2.2.1. The kinēsis of nous -- 2.2.2. The two arguments together -- 2.3. The children's wish: A positive account of being (249 c 10-d 4) -- 3. Kinds of change -- 4. The greatest kinds -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Plato on Perceiving through the Whole Body -- 1. The passage of the sensory affections -- 2. The vascular system -- 3. The other senses -- 4. The phronimon and perception |
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5. Intelligence in the marrow and other parts -- 6. The distinctive role of reason -- 7. The world soul's perception -- 8. Reflexivity -- 9. Antecedents of the Timaeus' doctrine -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Anatomy of Primary Substance in Aristotle's Categories -- 1. Substance and its attributes -- 1.1. Two interpretations -- 1.2. 'Being in a subject' -- 1.3. Non-substantialindividuals and the economy of the system of categories -- 1.4. 'The particular human being', etc. -- 1.5. Substance and ti esti -- 1.6. Ousia -- 1.7. Identity through time -- 1.8. Bare substrata? |
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1.9. The ancient commentators and a third interpretation -- 2. Substance, body, and soul -- 2.1. The problem -- 2.2. A partial solution -- 2.3. 'Being in' different kinds of subject -- 2.4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Experience and Preconception in Epicurus' Refutation of Determinism -- 1. The self-refutingthesis of determinism -- 2. Attending to and explaining experiences -- Bibliography -- Contact and Continuity: What Happens at the Boundaries? A Discussion of C. Pfeiffer, Aristotle's Theory of Bodies -- 1. Contact: Two boundaries in the same place? -- 1.1. Problems and an alternative |
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2. The internal boundaries of continuous objects -- 2.1. Problems for a single kind of continuity -- 2.2. Four kinds of continuous unities, two kinds of continuity -- 2.3. Two kinds of continuity, two kinds of oneness of boundaries -- 3. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum |
| Summary |
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192688293 |
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0192688294 |
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