Indeterminacy in Ancient Philosophy
From Early Greek Thought to the Hellenistic Era
Indeterminacy in Ancient Philosophy
From Early Greek Thought to the Hellenistic Era
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This ground-breaking volume explores, for the first time, how ancient philosophers engaged with the phenomenon of indeterminacy. Structured chronologically in 4 clear parts, it charts the development of indeterminate thinking in the pre-Socratics to the Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools.
Indeterminacy is the theory that our knowledge about things in the world, or the way we speak and think about them, cannot be determined in any reliable or philosophically satisfactory way. An increasingly popular theme in contemporary analytic philosophy, it is a theory that dates back almost three thousand years. Spanning epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language and more, this collection examines the ancient roots of indeterminacy and showcases the varied perspectives of a wide range of thinkers and texts, from Protagoras and Plato's Theaetetus to Aristotle, the Cryenaics, and the Skeptics.
Featuring 22 chapters from an international team of emerging and leading scholars, including Richard Bett, Katja Maria Vogt, and Claudia Mársico, Indeterminacy in Ancient Philosophy is an indispensable research tool. Further enhanced by an Editors' Introduction, providing key theoretical context to indeterminacy and its continued relevance today, this is the place to start for anyone looking to antiquity for new ways to approach the unnerving idea that nothing we know is certain.
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Table of Contents
PART I: From the Pre-Socratics to the Socratics
1. Indeterminacy among the Socratics, Claudia Marsico (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2.The less travelled road from indeterminacy to nihilism: from Protagoras to Gorgias, Ugo Zilioli (Oxford University, UK)
3. The Puzzle of Cyrenaic Metaphysics: A Dispositionalist Approach to Indeterminacy, Giovanna L. De Paoli (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
4. Indeterminacy and Eubulides' Paradoxes, Matthew Duncombe (University of Nottingham, UK)
5. Metrodorus of Chios and Epistemological Indeterminacy, Enrico Piergiacomi (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
PART II: Plato
6. Relativism for Frogs and Gods: again, on indeterminacy in Plato's Theaetetus,Katja Maria Vogt (Columbia University, USA)
7. Protagoras on the Impossibility of Falsehood and Contradiction: On What is Not,Pedro Mesquita (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
8. Conflicting Properties and Platonic Indeterminacy,Refik Güremen (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
9. The Puzzle of Indeterminacy of the Content of Mental States in Plato's Theaetetus, Diego Zucca (University of Sassari, Italy)
PART III: Aristotle
10. Ontic Indeterminacy and Change in Ancient Metaphysics: Plato and Aristotle, Florian Marion (UC Louvain, Belgium)
11.Natural Predication and Demonstration in Aristotle, Phil Corkum (University of Alberta, USA)
12. Indeterminacy and future contingents in Aristotle, Elia Zardini (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
PART IV: Hellenistic Schools
13. Epicurus on Language and Semantic Indeterminacy, Attila Nemeth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
14.Stoics vs Academics on Identifying Sources of Vagueness, Cristóbal Zarzar (University of Cambridge, UK)
15. Indeterminacy in Aenesidemus and Sextus, Diego Machuca (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina)
Epilogue: Indeterminacy in the World: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Perspective, Chien-hsing Ho (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Product details
| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 400 |
| ISBN | 9781350571730 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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