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• The Milesians: Thales and the stars, Stephen White
• Greek law and the Presocratics, Michael Gagarin
• 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, Andre Laks
• The metaphysics of physics, Patricia Curd
• Democritus and Xeniades, Jacques Brunschwig
• Democritus and Eudaimonism, Julia Annas
• Democritus and 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, Jaap Mansfeld
• The pervasiveness of being, Paul Thom
• Three philosophers look at the stars, Sarah Broadie
• Protagoras' Great Speech and Plato's defence of Athenian democracy, William Prior.
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Daniel W. Graham, Ph.D., has been teaching Socrates for thirty-five years, first at Grinnell College, then at Rice University, and for most of his career at Brigham Young University, where he has been department chair and is currently Abraham Owen Smoot Professor of Philosophy.

Victor Caston is Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies at University of Michigan.

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Daniel W. Graham, Ph.D., has taught ancient Greek philosophy for forty years, first at Grinnell College, then at Rice University, and for most of his career at Brigham Young University, where he has been department chair and is now Abraham Owen Smoot Professor of Philosophy emeritus. He has been a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a visiting professor at Yale University. The recipient of two NEH fellowships, he has published nine books (in eleven volumes) with leading academic presses, one of which was named one of the best books of 2010 in the Times Literary Supplement, and authored over one hundred scholarly articles in journals of philosophy, classics, history of ideas, and history of science. He does research in eight languages, has lectured around the world, and is past president of the International Association for Presocratic Studies. Having traveled to most of the major Greek archaeological sites of Greece as well as of Italy and Turkey (where Greek colonies abounded), he has recently visited two remote battlefield sites in Greece, Potidaea and Amphipolis, where Socrates fought as a citizen soldier.

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2005, The Classical Review 55.2 (2005), 339-402

This is my review of V. Caston & D.W. Graham (eds), Presocratic Philosophy. Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos, Ashgate, 2002 for The Classical Review 55.2 (2005), 339-402. I was given more space than usual to provide the original flavour of each of the twenty-two essays in the volume, and at times some terse critical comments of my own.

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Alexander P. D. Mourelatos is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and in Classics at The University of Texas at Austin, where in 1967 he founded and for twenty years directed, the Joint Classics-Philosophy Graduate Program in Ancient Philosophy.  He is the author of The Route of Parmenides (1970; 2nd edn., 2008), and editor of The Pre-Socratics:  A Collection of Critical Essays 1974; 2nd edn., 1993).  Scholarly articles of his have appeared in journals in:  philosophy; classics; ; history of science; and linguistics.  On more than 170 occasions, he has delivered invited lectures at academic venues in North and South America, Europe, and Australasia.  He received all his academic degrees from Yale University (Ph.D., 1964), and has been awarded two honorary doctorates in his native Greece (University of Athens, 1994; University of Crete, 2017). Students of his and colleagues have presanted him with two collections in his honor:  in 2002, Presocratic Philosophy—Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos ; and in 2019, a special double issue of the periodical Philosophical Inquiry .  He has held research appointments at: the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ); the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC, Harvard University); Cambridge University; and the Australian National University.

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My research focuses primarily on ancient philosophy of mind: how the soul is related to the body, whether it has any distinctive causal power of its own, and how its states can represent the world or have content. I have looked at these issues especially in the Aristotelian tradition; but my long term research has been directed at the last question, concerning content, throughout the whole of Greek philosophy, from Parmenides and the sophist Gorgias, through Plato and Aristotle, to Hellenistic philosophers like the Stoics and beyond, to early medieval philosophers such as Augustine.

My approach to ancient texts is resolutely philosophical: I am interested in whether ancient philosophers’ arguments, analyses, distinctions, and concepts are good ones, and whether they have the resources to respond to questions and objections which their contemporaries, or our own, could put to them. Only in this way, I believe, can we take the true measure of their claims. This approach requires close readings of the text that must be sensitive to its original language and informed by an understanding of the context in which it occurs, both in the author’s works as a whole and in the intellectual tradition of which it is a part. But my ultimate aim is philosophical: I want to recover a sense of the interest and power of these ancient ideas and to see how they bear on our own discussions today.

At the moment, I am finishing up two articles on Aristotle (one on perceptual content and another on the unity of psychology). Other projects in the works include a paper on Aristotle on illusions, hallucinations, and dreams; a paper on ancient discussions of the “veil of perception.” and a paper on Theophrastus on perception.

I also have two current book projects. The main project at the moment is a monograph on the Stoics' theory of mental representation and content (essentially their theory of phantasia and lekta ), which aims to show their views first originated and developed over time. This is part of my long term research program on the problem of intentionality in ancient philosophy, which I will be producing for Cambridge University Press.

The second book project is on Alexander of Aphrodisias (2 nd –3 rd c. CE), the last great Peripatetic commentator on Aristotle, an Aristotelian of a stature comparable to Thomas Aquinas or Ibn Rushd (Averroes). I am working on the second volume of a two volume translation and commentary of his On the Soul for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series (Duckworth/Cornell UP; the first volume appeared in 2012). Alexander’s On the Soul is a systematic treatise that reworks Aristotle’s views on the soul in an orderly way from their foundations in his metaphysics. Alexander takes psychology to be based on principles that can be found throughout the natural order, beginning with the four elements, and argues that the organization of these basic substances into new forms of ever-increasing complexity can explain the striking phenomena that characterise living things, from growth and reproduction, through perception, representation, and desire, to the highest forms of intellectual activity. The result is a highly nuanced form of naturalism, which aims to steer clear of the excesses of both Platonic dualism and Stoic materialism. As the last and greatest of the commentators who declared their primary allegiance to Aristotle and were largely untainted by Platonism, Alexander is the first to articulate an Aristotelianism remarkably congenial to contemporary Aristotelians and hence of great interest today.

My future plans include a monograph on Aristotle on intentionality, as part of my long-term research program on intentionality, and a monograph surveying ancient theories of perception, from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists.

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• “The Stoics on Mental Representation.” In J. Klein & N. Powers (eds.), The Oxford Handbook in Hellenistic Philosophy , Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming .
• “Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Emergentism: Hylomorphism Perfected.” In D. Charles (ed.), The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes , 154–73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
• “Aristotle and the Cartesian theatre.” In P. Gregoric and J. Fink (eds.), Encounters with Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind , 169–220. London: Routledge, 2021.
• “Aristote et l’unité de la psychologie : comment diviser l’âme?” In F. Graziani and P. Pellegrin (eds.), L’héritage d’Aristote aujourd’hui : science, nature et société , 199–229. Actes de la rencontre interdisciplinaire organisée à l’Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse du 5 au 8 mars 2019 par la Fédération de Recherche Environnement et Société. (Sophia: Studi interdisciplinari sul mondo antico, vol. 2) Alessandria, Italy: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2020.
• “Aristotle on the Transmission of Information: Receiving Form without the Matter.” In D. Bennett & J. Toivanan (eds.), Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism , 15–55. (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, vol. 26.) Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020.
• “Intentionality in Ancient Greek Philosophy.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Revised, November 2019.
• “Theophrastus on Perceiving,”” Rhizomata 7 (2019), 188–225.
• “Aristotle on the Reality of Colors and Other Perceptibles,” Res Philosophica 95 (2018), 35–68.
• “Perception in Ancient Philosophy.” In Mohan Matthen (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception , 29–50. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• “Higher-Order Awareness in Alexander of Aphrodisias.” Bulletin for the Institute of Classical Studies 55 (2012), 31–49. (Special number in memory of Robert W. Sharples, edited by Peter Adamson.)
• “How Hylomorphic Can You Get? Comment on David Charles, ‘Aristotle’s Psychological Theory’.” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy , 24 (2008), 30–49.
• “Aristotle’s Psychology.” In M. L. Gill and P. Pellegrin (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Philosophy , 316–46. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
• “The Spirit and the Letter: Aristotle on Perception.” In R. Salles (ed.), Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics: Themes from the work of Richard Sorabji , 245–320. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• “Aristotle on Consciousness.” Mind 111 (2002), 751–815.
• “Gorgias on Thought and its Objects.” In V. Caston and D. W. Graham (eds), Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos , 205–32. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002.
• “Connecting Traditions: Augustine and the Greeks on Intentionality.” In Dominik Perler (ed.), Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality , 23–48. (= Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, Bd. 76.) Leiden: Brill, 2001.
• “Aristotle’s Two Intellects: A Modest Proposal.” Phronesis 44 (1999), 199–227.
• “Something and Nothing: The Stoics on Concepts and Universals.” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 17 (1999), 145–213.
• “Aristotle and the Problem of Intentionality.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1998), 249–98.
• “Epiphenomenalisms, Ancient and Modern.” The Philosophical Review 106 (1997), 309–63.
• “Why Aristotle Needs Imagination,” Phronesis 41 (1996), 20–55.

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Socrates and plato, hellenistic, late antiquity, ancient christianity, formative period, eastern traditions, early medieval, thirteenth century, fourteenth century, italian renaissance, central europe, catholic reformation, age of the sutra, buddhists and jains, precolonial, slavery / diaspora, africana 20th century, classical chinese philosophy, presocratic philosophy.

The first thinkers of antiquity are referred to as the "Pre-Socratics", even though some of these thinkers were in fact contemporaries of Socrates. The first podcasts in the series look at the beginnings of Greek philosophy in the 6th century BC in the city of Miletus, on the coast of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). There, Thales and his successors Anaximander and Anaximines developed theories sometimes referred to as "material monism," deriving the entire visible cosmos from a single stuff or principle (water, the infinite, air). The following episodes look at the critique of Homer and Hesiod at the hands of Xenophanes and the more ambitious philosophical reflections of Heraclitus and Parmenides (though Peter casts some doubt on the simple opposition often drawn between these two). Further installments look at the reactions to Parmenides' monism in the 5th century BC, and cultural developments around the time of Socrates -- Hippocratic medicine and the sophists. Also look out for interview episodes with MM McCabe and Malcolm Schofield.

The book version of these podcasts is available from Oxford University Press.

J. Barnes, The Presocratic Philosophers (1982).

J. Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (London: 1958).

V. Caston and D.W. Graham (eds), Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).

P. Curd and D.W. Graham (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (Oxford: 2008).

D.J. Furley, Cosmic Problems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

D.J. Furley and R.E. Allen (eds), Studies in Presocratic Philosophy , 2 vols (1970, 1975).

D.W. Graham (ed.), The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics , 2 vols (Cambridge: 2010).

G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven and M. Schofield (eds), The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (1983).

A. Laks and G. Most, Early Greek Philosophy , 9 vols (Cambridge MA: 2016).

A.A. Long (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (1999).

R.D. McKirahan, Philosophy Before Socrates (Indianapolis: 2010).

A. Mourelatos, The Pre-Socratics (Garden City: Anchor, 1974).

O. Primavesi and J. Mansfeld,   Die Vorsokratiker: griechisch - deutsch (Stuttgart: 2011).

J. Warren, The Presocratics (Stocksfield: 2007).

Stanford encyclopedia: Presocratics

Posted on 21 December 2010

In this episode, Peter Adamson of King's College London introduces the podcast as a whole, and the thought of the early Greek philosophers called the Presocratics. He also discusses the first Presocratic philosopher, Thales of Miletus.  

Posted on 23 December 2010

Peter discusses two very early Greek philosophers, both from Miletus: Anaximander and Anaximenes.

Posted on 27 December 2010

In this episode, Peter talks about the Greek gods in Homer and Hesiod, and the criticism of the poets by the Presocratic philosopher Xenophanes.

Posted on 28 December 2010

Peter discusses the Pre-Socratic philosopher Pythagoras, as well as Pythagoreanism and the role of mathematics in ancient philosophy.

Posted on 29 December 2010

Peter discusses the Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, and tries to discover whether it's possible to step into the same river twice.

Posted on 31 December 2010

Peter's colleague Professor MM McCabe joins him in the first interview of the series of podcasts, to talk about Heraclitus.

Posted on 16 January 2011

Peter  discusses the "father of metaphysics," Parmenides, and his argument that all being is one.

The paradoxes of Zeno and the arguments of Melissus develop the ideas of Parmenides and defend his Eleatic monism.

In this episode Peter discusses the Atomists Democritus and Leucippus, and how they were responding to the ideas of Parmenides and his followers.

Peter discusses Anaxagoras, focusing on his theory of universal mixture ("everything is in everything") and the role played by mind in Anaxagoras' cosmos.

Peter discusses the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles and his principles: Love, Strife, and the four “roots,” or elements.

World-leading expert Malcolm Schofield of Cambridge University speaks to Peter about the development of Presocratic philosophy, from the Milesians to Parmenides and the reactions he provoked.

Early Greek medicine up until Hippocrates, and its relation to Pre-Socratic philosophers like Empedocles.

In this episode, Peter Adamson discusses the sophists, teachers of rhetoric in ancient Athens, looking especially at the contributions of Protagoras and Gorgias.

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