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1 online resource (xvi, 499 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-475) and indexes. |
| Summary |
This work traces the history of ancient Greek thought about causation and explanation. It examines ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen, about the constitution and structure of things, laws of nature, and more. |
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""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Note on Citations""; ""Introduction""; ""I. The Presocratics""; ""1. Prehistory""; ""2. The Milesians""; ""3. Causal Origination""; ""4. Pluralism and Emergence""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""II. Science and Sophistry""; ""1. Rational Medicine""; ""2. The Sophists""; ""3. History""; ""4. Conclusions""; ""III. Plato""; ""1. Metaphysics and Causation""; ""2. Causation and the Soul""; ""3. Hypothesis and Explanation""; ""4. Timaeus: The Model Applied""; ""5. Coda: Mathematical and Astronomical Theory""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""IV. Aristotle: Explanation and Nature"" |
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""1. The Structure of Reality""""2. Causation and Coincidence""; ""3. Teleological Explanation""; ""4. The Explanation of Action""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""V. Aristotle: Explanation and the World""; ""1. Demonstration and Explanation""; ""2. Observation and Science""; ""3. Theophrastus and After""; ""4. Conclusions""; ""VI. The Atomists""; ""1. Democritus""; ""2. Epicureanism and Explanation""; ""3. Freedom and the Explanation of Action""; ""4. Later Epicurean Scientific Epistemology""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""VII. The Stoics""; ""1. Stoic Causal Theory""; ""2. Freedom and Determinism"" |
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""3. Stoic Cosmology""""4. Conclusions""; ""VIII. The Sceptics""; ""1. The Development of Scepticism""; ""2. Aenesidemus against the Aetiologists""; ""3. The General Attack on Causes""; ""4. The Modes of Agrippa""; ""5. Scepticism and Science""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""IX. Explanation in the Medical Schools""; ""1. The Limits of Explanation""; ""2. Empiricism and Rationalism""; ""3. Methodism""; ""4. Conclusions""; ""X. The Age of Synthesis""; ""1. The Origins of Syncretism""; ""2. The Convergence of the Schools""; ""3. The Emergence of Middle Platonism"" |
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""4. The Revival of Aristotelianism: Alexander of Aphrodisias""""5. Conclusions""; ""XI. Science and Explanation""; ""1. Ptolemy""; ""2. Galen: The Structure of Causation""; ""3. The Aristotelian Influence""; ""4. Galen's Teleology""; ""5. Powers, Functions, and Activities""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""XII. The Neoplatonists""; ""1. The Roots of Neoplatonism""; ""2. Plotinus' System""; ""3. After Plotinus""; ""4. Conclusions and Reflections""; ""Appendix: List of Abbreviated Principles""; ""References""; ""Index of Passages Cited""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Causation -- History.
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Causation. |
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History. |
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Explanation -- History.
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Explanation. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hankinson, R.J. Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0198237456 9780198237457 (DLC) 98026743 (OCoLC)39299393 |
| ISBN |
9780191519215 (electronic book) |
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0191519219 (electronic book) |
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0198237456 0199246564 |
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9780198237457 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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