Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Achievement of Early Greek Philosophy: A Drama in Five Acts: From Thales to the Timaeus
2. Anaximander’s apeiron and the Arrangement of Time
3. The Problem of Evil in Heraclitus
4. Reason and Myth in Early Pythagorean Cosmology
5. A Systematic Xenophanes?
6. Parmenides, Early Greek Astronomy, and Modern Scientific Realism
7. Where Are Love and Strife? Incorporeality in Empedocles
8. Anaxagoras: Science and Speculation in the Golden Age
9. Bacon’s Third Sailing: The “Presocratic” Origins of Modern Philosophy
10. Primal Truth, Errant Tradition, and Crisis: The Presocratics in Late Modernity
Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Sources
Index of Names
Index of Subjects