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Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics
Edited By Keimpe Alg
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Description for Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics
hardcover. A running philosophical commentary to the two books Against the Physicists by the second-century sceptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus. Editor(s): Algra, Keimpe; Ierodiakonou, Katerina. Num Pages: 443 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 766.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
443
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107069244
SKU
V9781107069244
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About Edited By Keimpe Alg
Keimpe Algra is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has published widely on ancient philosophy, in particular on Hellenistic philosophy and ancient science. He co-edited The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (1999, with Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld and Malcolm Schofield) and was managing editor of the international journal Phronesis. His most recent book is ... Read more
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