Explaining the Cosmos : the Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [(c)2008.]Description: 1 online resource (359 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400827459
- 1400827450
- Q127.7 .73 2008
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | Q127.7 .73 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn609855977 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
00GRAHAM_Frontmatter; 01GRAHAM_CH01_1; 02GRAHAM_CH02_28; 03GRAHAM_CH03_45; 04GRAHAM_CH04_85; 05GRAHAM_CH05_113; 06GRAHAM_CH06_148; 07GRAHAM_CH07_186; 08GRAHAM_CH08_224; 09GRAHAM_CH09_250; 10GRAHAM_CH10_277; 11GRAHAM_CH11_294; 12GRAHAM_Bibliography_309; 13GRAHAM_Index1_327; 14GRAHAM_Index2_337.
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, Parmenide.
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