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 Cyrenaics, 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
Introduction
Refik Güremen and Ugo Zilioli
Part One: Early Greek Philosophy
1. Apeiron and Indeterminacy in Anaximander
B. Sattler
2. Infinite Scepticism: Metrodorus of Chios and Epistemological Indeterminacy
Enrico Piergiacomi
Part Two: Socratics
3. Indeterminacy among the Socratics
C. Marsico
4. Indeterminacy and Eubulides'Paradoxes
M. Duncombe
5. The Puzzle of Cyrenaic metaphysics: A determinable-based approach to indeterminacy
G. De Paoli
Part Three: Protagoras, Plato and the Theaetetus
6. Relativism for Frogs and the Metaphysics of Indeterminacy
K. M. Vogt
7. On What There is Not: Protagoras on the Impossibility of Falsehood and Contradiction
A. P. Mesquita
8. Conflicting Properties and Platonic Indeterminacy
R. Güremen
9. Plato and the Puzzle of The Indeterminacy of Mental Content
D. Zucca
Part Four: Aristotle
10. Indeterminacy, Ambiguity, and Historiography
P. Corkum
11. Indeterminacy and Change in Ancient Metaphysics
F. Marion
12. Change without a Continuant: Elemental Transformation in Aristotle
T. Pincin
Part Five: Hellenistic and Post-Hellenistic Philosophy
13. Indeterminacy before Pyrrho: Indeterminacy in Pyrrho?
R. Bett
14. From Protagoras to Pyrrho (and the Buddha): metaphysical indeterminacy all the way down (and back) U. Zilioli
15. From Swerve to Speech: Indeterminacy and Reference in Epicurus
A. Németh
16. Stoics vs Academics on Identifying Sources of Vagueness
C. Zarzar
17. Aenesidemus on Non-Determination and Suspension of Judgement
S. H. Svavarsson
18. Perfect Indeterminacy. Neoplatonic Dealings with Uncertainty in Reasoning and Reality
M. Martijn
Part Five: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
19. Worldly Indeterminacy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Chien-hsing Ho
Product details
| Published | 10 Jun 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 9781350571730 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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