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Allusion
Analogy
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Apeiron (cosmology)
Aristotle
Atomism
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Causality
Classical element
Concept
Contradiction
Cosmogony
Democritus
Diogenes of Apollonia
Dualism (philosophy of mind)
Eleatics
Empedocles
Empirical evidence
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Essence
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Explanation
Explication
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First principle
Four causes
Greek Philosophy
Hypothesis
Ignoratio elenchi
Inference
Inquiry
Leucippus
Lucretius
Material monism
Meteorology
Monism
Multitude
Natural philosophy
On Generation and Corruption
Ontology
Parmenides
Phenomenon
Philolaus
Philosopher
Philosophical theory
Philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Principle
Process philosophy
Prose
Pythagoreanism
Quantity
Reality
Reason
Sophist
Substance theory
The Philosopher
Theogony
Theophrastus
Theoretical physics
Theory
Theory of change
Theory of Forms
Thomas Kuhn
Thought
Timaeus (dialogue)
Treatise
Unity of opposites
Xenophanes
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- ISBN 9780691125404
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. In Graham's view, Parmenides plays a constructive role in shaping the scientific debates of the fifth century BC. Accordingly, the history of Presocratic philosophy can be seen not as a series of dialectical failures, but rather as a series of theoretical advances that led to empirical discoveries. Indeed, the Ionian tradition can be seen as the origin of the scientific conception of the world that we still hold today.
Daniel W. Graham is A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is the author of "Aristotle's Two Systems"; editor of the two-volume collected papers of Gregory Vlastos, "Studies in Greek Philosophy" (Princeton); and translator of and commentator on "Aristotle: Physics, Book VIII". He is a member of the editorial boards of "Apeiron" and "History of Philosophy Quarterly".
