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Informationen zum Autor David Sedley is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. This year's contributions range over a thousand years of philosophy, from the Presocratics to Boethius. Particularly prominent in the volume are Aristotle and the Stoics. Zusammenfassung Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. From 2000, OSAP is being published not once but twice yearly, to keep up with the abundance of good material submitted; and it is being made available in paperback as well as hardback, in response to demand from scholars wishing to purchase it. This volume, the first of 2000, features contributors from Britain, America, Europe, and Japan contributing pieces on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, and the recently discovered papyrus text of Empedocles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Callicles and Socrates: Psychic (Dis)harmony in the Gorgias (Raphael Woolf); The Methodology of the Second Voyage and the Proof of the Soul's Indestructibility in Plato's Phaedo (Yahei Kanayama); Thrasymachus and Definition (T. D. J. Chappell);Aristotle on Posthumous Fortune (Dominic Scott); Flux and Language in the Theaetetus (Allan Silverman); Aristotelian Dialectic and the Discovery of Truth (Marta Wlodarczyk); Epicurean Immortality (James Warren); Self-Bracketing Pyrrhonism (Luca Castagnoli); Rummaging in the Recycling Bins of Upper Egypt: A Discussion of A. Martin and O. Primaversi, L'Empedocle de Strasbourg (Catherine Osborne); Index Locorum
