Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
List of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Concept in Early Greek Philosophy
	1 Looking for Inklings
	2 Sensation and Thought
	3 Concepts and Words
Chapter 2 The Place of Concepts in Socratic Inquiry
	1 Two Questions About Concepts
	2 Is a Socratic Definition a Means to Grasping a Concept?
	3 Are Socratic Definitions Conceptual Analyses?
	4 Aristotle: Socrates Looks for Real Definitions
	5 Epictetus: Socrates Seeks to Articulate Preconceptions
	6 Socrates Relies on Concepts
	7 Socrates Seeks Real, not Nominal, Definitions
	8 Socrates’ Conclusions do not Rest on Conceptual Arguments
	9 The Republic Looks for Real Definitions, Through Systematic Inquiry
Chapter 3 Early Learning in Plato, Republic 7
	1 ‘Stirring up ennoia’
	2 The Soul’s aporia: 524a5–d5
	3 Some Consequences and Further Questions
Chapter 4 Are Platonic Forms Concepts?
	1 What are Forms?
	2 Are Forms Concepts? Parmenides 132b–c
	3 Forms as a Source of Concepts: Phaedo 74e–75c
Chapter 5 Do Forms Play the Role of Concepts in Late Plato?
	1 Introduction: Rival Views About the Role of Forms
	2 The Method of Division: An Old Enterprise in New Clothing?
	3 The Sophist ’s Middle Part: The Greatest Kinds and Their Communion with One Another
	4 Drawing the Threads Together
	5 Forms as Necessary to Ordinary Thinking, or Only Necessary to Philosophical Thinking?
	6 False Belief and False Statement
	7 Conclusions
Chapter 6 Concepts and Concept Formation in Aristotle’s Logical Works
	1 Introduction
	2 Concepts in the Organon
	3 Aristotle’s Developmental Accounts
	4 From Universals to Scientific Principles
	5 Back to Concepts
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 7 Concepts and Universals in Aristotle’s Metaphysical Thought
	1 Tackling the Concept of Concept
	2 Where to Look for Concepts in Aristotle?
	3 Aristotelian Realism in the Categories
	4 A Case for Immanent Universals in Peri Ideon
	5 Universals, Definitions and What-the-Being-Is-for-F
	6 Universals as (Metaphysically) Downgraded in the Metaphysics
	7 Platonic Forms: Mere Concepts Aspiring to Be More
	8 Aristotelian Forms: Either Embodied or Conceived
Chapter 8 Aristotle on the Stages of Cognitive Development
	1 Cognitive Development Step 1. From Perception to Memory
	2 Step 2. From Memory to Experience
	3 Step 3. From Experience to techne
	4 The Underlying Capacities
	5 Nous and the Rout
	6 Nous as a Capacity
Chapter 9 Epicureans on Preconceptions and Other Concepts
	1 Preconceptions and Concepts: Setting the Agenda
	2 The Formation of Preconceptions
	3 The Scope of Preconceptions
	4 Preconceptions and Permanent Properties
	5 Preconceptions and True Beliefs
	6 Preconceptions and Word Use
	7 Preconceptions and Other Concepts
	8 Can We Identify Preconceptions? Queries and a Puzzle
	9 Preconceptions and Human Flourishing
	10 Conclusion
Chapter 10 The Stoics on Conceptions and Concepts
	1 Introduction
	2 Fine Distinctions in Stoic Terminology
	3 The Ontological Status of Stoic Concepts
	4 The Epistemic Function of Stoic Conceptions and Concepts
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 11 Doing Things with Concepts in Sextus Empiricus
	1 Historical Background to Sextus’ Usage
	2 Sextus’ Treatment of the Notion of Concept: Overview
	3 How Sextus Deals with Concepts Featured in Dogmatic Definitions
	4 Sextus’ Own Use of Concepts
Chapter 12 Relative Concepts
	1 Introduction
	2 Plato
	3 Aristotle
	4 The Stoics
	5 Sextus against Relative Concepts
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Concepts in Greek Mathematics
	1 Discontinuities
	2 Hellenism without Concepts
	3 Teaching and Definitions
	4 Concepts in Commentaries
	5 Mathematics alongside Philosophy?
	6 A Couple of Historical Observations.
	7 Concepts in Harmony
Chapter 14 Platonist Notions and Forms
	1 Introduction
	2 Stoic and Platonist ennoiai
Chapter 15 Contested Concepts: Plutarch’s On Common Conceptions
	1 Introduction
	2 Plutarch’s Elusive Common Conceptions
	3 Challenging the Commonality of Concepts
	4 Is Diadoumenos’ Attack ‘dialectical’?
	5 Diadumenos and the New Academy on Relying upon Common Conceptions
	6 Articulating Concepts? Meno’s Paradox and Stoicism
	7 Diadumenos’ Conception of a Concept and its Platonist Background
Chapter 16 Alexander of Aphrodisias on Concepts
	1 Concept Formation as the Development of Potential Intellect
	2 Divine Intellect in Us as noema
	3 Ennoia and noema as Concepts under Construction
	4 Intellect as Unity of Concepts
	5 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 17 Plotinus on Concepts
	1 Plotinus’ Report: Enn. 6.6.12
	2 Plotinus’ Criticism
	3 Plotinus vs the Stoics on Concepts
	4 Conclusion
Chapter 18 Concepts in the Neoplatonist Tradition
	1 Variety of Mental Contents in Plotinus
	2 Porphyry’s Concordism
	3 Later Developments
Chapter 19 Early Christian Philosophers on Concepts
	1 Introduction
	2 Clement of Alexandria
	3 Origen
	4 Gregory of Nyssa
	5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index