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Zusatztext ... we have no reservations whatsoever about recommending it to those who wish to join the fascinating and still unresolved struggle over what Parmenides really said. Informationen zum Autor Michael V. Wedin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Mind and Imagination in Aristotle (Yale University Press, 1989), and Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta (OUP, 2000). Klappentext Michael V. Wedin presents a rigorous reconstruction of the deductions in Parmenides' Way of Truth: the most important philosophical treatise before Plato and Aristotle. He answers criticisms which claim that Parmenides' arguments are shot through with logical fallacies, and argues against natural explanations of Parmenides in the Ionian tradition Zusammenfassung Michael V. Wedin presents a rigorous reconstruction of the deductions in Parmenides' Way of Truth: the most important philosophical treatise before Plato and Aristotle. He answers criticisms which claim that Parmenides' arguments are shot through with logical fallacies, and argues against natural explanations of Parmenides in the Ionian tradition Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: The Governing Deduction and Parmenides' Master Argument 1: Parmenides' Canonical Paths of Inquiry 2: Path II and the Governing Deduction 3: Path I and the Corollary to the Governing Deduction 4: Modal Extension and the Third Path 5: A Covert Fallacy in the Governing Deduction? 6: Self-Defeat and the Second-Order Defense of the Governing Deduction 7: The Ionian Interpretation of Fr. 6 8: Does Parmenides Argue for the Existence of Something? 9: A Remark on Quantification and the Subject of estin Part II: The Deductive Consequences of the Governing Deduction 10: Consequence (A): That what is is uncreated and imperishable (8, 5-21) 11: Against an Emendation and a Proposal about the Subject of (A1) 12: Consequence (B): That what is is indivisible and continuous (8, 22-25) 13: Monism and Deductive Consequence (B) 14: Consequence (C): That what is is motionless (8, 26-31) 15: Consequence (D): That what is is complete (8, 32-49) 16: A Causal Theory of Thought and Fact-Monism (8, 34-41) 17: Fact-Monism and Gödel's Slingshot 18: Parmenides' Anomalous Sphere: D3 (8, 42-49) 19: The Eleatic Inference Ticket 20: The Perils of Prescription: the Deductive Consequences at Risk Part III: Critical Reflections 21: Four Proposals that Won't Save the Governing Deduction 22: Was Parmenides an Identity Theorist? On einai and noein in Fr. 3 23: More on Miscasting Parmenides as an Ionian Philosopher 24: Plato's Response to Parmenides Appendix: Articulated Text of the Way of Truth Bibliography Index ...
