Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific PhilosophyPrinceton University Press, 20/11/2009 - 368 من الصفحات Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and unified Ionian tradition that dominates Presocratic debates. Graham rejects the common interpretation of the early Ionians as "material monists" and also the view of the later Ionians as desperately trying to save scientific philosophy from Parmenides' criticisms. |
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2 Anaximanders Principles | 28 |
3 Anaximenes Theory of Change | 45 |
4 The Generating Substance Theory as an Explanatory Hypothesis | 85 |
5 Heraclituss Criticism of Ionian Philosophy | 113 |
6 Parmenides Criticism of Ionian Philosophy | 148 |
Eleatic Pluralists | 186 |
8 The Elemental Substance Theory as an Explanatory Hypothesis | 224 |
9 The Atomist Reform | 250 |
10 Diogenes of Apollonia and Material Monism | 277 |
11 The Ionian Legacy | 294 |
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INDEX LOCORUM | 327 |
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