Presocratic Philosophy : Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos (Paperback)

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, Andre 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.