Cosmos and Logos - Studies in Greek Philosophy

The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Scepticism among the Sophisists, the prehistory of "Buridan's Ass" speculation, and the role of esthesis in Aristotle's theory of science. In each case the early discussion seeks to show how certain ideas bore unexpected fruit during the subsequent development of philosophical thought.

About the author

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Rescher
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783110328790
• ISBN: 978-3-11-032879-0
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 280 g
• Series: Themen der antiken Philosophie; Topics in Ancient Philosophy; Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der antiken Philosophie; Topics in Ancient Philosophy; Themen der antiken Philosophie; Themen der antiken Philosophie /Topics in Ancient Philosophy; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day