Sextus Empiricus and ancient physics

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Sextus Empiricus and ancient physics

edited by Keimpe Algra and Katerina Ierodiakonou

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Emerged from the 11th Symposium Hellenisticum, held at the European Cultural Centre in Delphi, 6-12 Aug. 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-412) and indexes

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Description

The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimens of sceptical philosophy. This volume redresses the balance by offering a series of in-depth studies on them, focusing in particular on their overall argumentative structure and on the various ways in which their formal features relate to their contents, showing how Sextus' procedures vary from one section to the other, and throwing new light on the way he was using his sources. It follows Sextus' own division of these two books into nine successive topics, namely god, cause, wholes and parts, body, place, motion, time, number, coming-to-be and passing-away. These nine chapters are preceded by an introduction which discusses a number of general features of Sextus' scepticism and links the conclusions of this volume to some recent discussions on the scope of ancient scepticism.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction Keimpe Algra and Katerina Ierodiakonou
  • 1. God: M 9.13-194 Richard Bett
  • 2. Cause: M 9.195-330 Michael J. White
  • 3. Wholes and parts: M 9.331-358 Katerina Ierodiakonou
  • 4. Body: M 9.359-440 Gabor Betegh
  • 5. Place: M 10.1-36 Keimpe Algra
  • 6. Motion: M 10.37-168 R. J. Hankinson
  • 7. Time: M 10.169-247 Susanne Bobzien
  • 8. Number: M 10.248-309 Tad Brennan
  • 9. Coming-to-be and passing-away: M 10.310-351 James Warren.

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