Essays in Ancient Philosophy

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction: The Study of Ancient Philosophy......Page 10
Plato......Page 30
1 Observations on Perception in Plato's Later Dialogues......Page 32
Aristotle......Page 38
2 The Title, Unity, and Authenticity of the Aristotelian Categories......Page 40
3 Categories in Aristotle......Page 58
4 Individuals in Aristotle......Page 78
5 Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics......Page 101
6 The Unity of General and Special Metaphysics: Aristotle's Conception of Metaphysics......Page 110
Stoics......Page 126
7 Stoic vs. Aristotelian Syllogistic......Page 128
8 The Original Notion of Cause......Page 154
9 Stoics and Skeptics on Clear and Distinct Impressions......Page 180
Skeptics......Page 206
10 The Skeptic's Beliefs......Page 208
11 The Skeptic's Two Kinds of Assent and the Question of the Possibility of Knowledge......Page 230
Medicine......Page 252
12 Philosophy and Medicine in Antiquity......Page 254
13 The Ancient Empiricists......Page 272
14 The Method of the So-Called Methodical School of Medicine......Page 290
15 On Galen's Epistemology......Page 308
Grammar......Page 328
16 Principles of Stoic Grammar......Page 330
17 The Origins of Traditional Grammar......Page 367
Notes......Page 392
B......Page 404
G......Page 405
P......Page 406
Z......Page 407
C......Page 408
I......Page 409
U......Page 410
V......Page 411