Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume VIII 1990 [Hardcover]

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophyis an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, and review articles of major books.

Volume VIII of this acclaimed annual publication includes contributions from Andr? Laks, Hugh G. Benson, Cynthia A. Freeland, Stephen White, David Gallop, Salim Kemal, Mark L. McPherran, Eric Lewis, David Bostock, and Elizabeth Asmis.

Andr? Laks: `The More' and `the Full': On the Reconstruction of Parmenides' Theory of Sensation in Theophrastus,De sensibus, 3-4;Hugh G. Benson: The Priority of Definition and the Socratic Elenchus;Cynthia A. Freeland: Scientific Explanation and Empirical Data in Aristotle's Meteorology;Stephen White: Is Aristotelian Happiness the Good Life or the Best Life?;David Gallop: Animals in thePoetics;Salim Kemal: Aristotle's Poetics in Avicenna's Commentary;
Mark L. McPherran: Kahn on the Pre-Middle Platonic Dialogues: Comment on Charles Kahn, `On the Relative Date of theGorgiasand theProtagoras;Eric Lewis: `When Worlds Collide': David Furley's The Greek Cosmologists Volume I, The Formation of the Atomic Theory and its Earliest Critics;DavidBostock: Plato and Nominalism: Critical Notice of Terry Penner, The Ascent from Nominalism;Elizabeth Asmis: Free Action and the Swerve: Review of Walter G. Englert, Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action

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