The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Background The sources for Presocratic philosophy ........27 Prehistory of Presocratic philosophy in an Orientalizing context ........55 2. Figures and movement Milesian measures : Time, space, and matter .......89 The clud-astrophisics of Xenophanes and Ionian Material Monism .......134 Heraclitus : Flux, order, and Knowledge ..............169 Signs and arguments in Parmenides ..................189 Anaxagoras and the theory of Everything ............230 Empedocles : Physical and mythical Divinity ...............250 Two problems in Pythagoreanism .......284 Atomism`s Eleatic roots ............305 Leucippus`s Atomism ..............333 Speculating about diogenes of Appollonia ............353 The sophists ...........365 3. Topics The role of medicine in the formation of Early greek thought ...........385 Presocratic cosmologies .............413 Reason, Cause, and Explanation in Presocratic Philosophy........501 The humanizing of Knowledge in Presocratic thought.............458 Presocratic Theology ............485 4. Reception Aristotle`s account of the origins of Philosophy .........501 Classical representations and uses of the presocratics ..............530