Indifference Arguments (Issues in Ancient Philosophy, 2) - Image 1

£48.79

Wiley-Blackwell Indifference Arguments (Issues in Ancient Philosophy, 2)

Name: Indifference Arguments (Issues in Ancient Philosophy, 2)
Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
Price: 48.79 GBP
Availability: InStock

History & Schools of Thought

Price History & Forecast

Last 11 days • 11 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 11 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £49 (11 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £49 - £49

Price levels: 1 different prices over 11 days

Description

In this book Stephen Makin offers a striking new account of some intriguing but neglected arguments - indifference arguments - and of the presocratic atomism underpinned by indifference reasoning. Used by Parmenides, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle and Leibniz as well as some contemporary philosophers, indifference arguments start from claims about a balance of reasons or an absence of asymmetries. While some provide plausible support for surprisingly strong conclusions, others produce no conviction. Here, Makin offers an account of indifference arguments and provides answers to such philosophical questions as 'What makes a good piece of indifference reasoning?', 'How do the arguments work?', 'Do they involve claims about metaphysical commitments?' The account that is presented of the Democritean atomic theory strongly emphasizes the continuity of atomism with earlier thought. A number of Zeno's arguments are considered, and there is some discussion of other Eleatics. Indifference arguments in other ancient philosophers, such as Anaximander and Aristotle, also receive attention. The book will be of interest to all those concerned with ancient philosophy and philosophical logic.

Product Specifications

Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0631178384
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > History & Schools of Thought
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 October 1993
Listed Since: 12 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Wiley-Blackwell Indifference Arguments (Issues in Ancient Philosophy, 2)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Bloomsbury Academic - Atomism in Philosophy History Book

Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine

Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity: 39 (Argumentation Library, 39)

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1

Non-Being in Ancient Thought

Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality: 450 (Synthese Library, 450)

Philosophical Imagination: Thought Experiments and Arguments in Antiquity

Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia (Cambridge Classical Studies)

Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo: 140 (Philosophia Antiqua, 140)

Arguments and Reason-Giving

Routledge - What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology

Ancient Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary (Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy)

Routledge Epicureanism (Ancient Philosophies) - Philosophy Book

Epictetus and Laypeople: A Stoic Stance toward Non-Stoics

Machiavelli and Epicureanism: An Investigation into the Origins of Early Modern Political Thought

Cengage Learning Metaphysics: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Philosophical Horizons: Introductory Readings

The Arguments of Aquinas: A Philosophical View (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)

Philosophical Reasoning: A Study in the Methodology of Philosophizing

Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics (Issues in Ancient Philosophy)

McDowell and His Critics: 6 (Philosophers and their Critics)

Reading Ancient Texts: Presocratics and Plato v. 1: Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History): 161

Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)