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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009369596
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Concepts are basic features of rationality. Debates surrounding them have been central to the study of philosophy in the medieval and modern periods, as well as in the analytical and Continental traditions. This book studies ancient Greek approaches to the various notions of concept, exploring the early history of conceptual theory and its associated philosophical debates from the end of the archaic age to the end of antiquity. When and how did the notion of concept emerge and evolve, what questions were raised by ancient philosophers in the Greco-Roman tradition about concepts, and what were the theoretical presuppositions that made the emergence of a notion of concept possible? The volume furthers our own contemporary understanding of the nature of concepts, concept formation, and concept use. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Contents

  • Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
    pp i-ii
  • Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-vi
  • Contributors
    pp vii-viii
  • Preface
    pp ix-xi
  • Abbreviations
    pp xii-xx
  • Introduction
    pp 1-15
  • Chapter 1 - The Emergence of the Concept in Early Greek Philosophy
    pp 16-34
  • Chapter 2 - The Place of Concepts in Socratic Inquiry
    pp 35-55
  • Chapter 3 - Early Learning in Plato, Republic 7
    pp 56-73
  • Chapter 4 - Are Platonic Forms Concepts?
    pp 74-95
  • Chapter 5 - Do Forms Play the Role of Concepts in Late Plato?
    pp 96-118
  • Chapter 6 - Concepts and Concept Formation in Aristotle’s Logical Works
    pp 119-146
  • Chapter 7 - Concepts and Universals in Aristotle’s Metaphysical Thought
    pp 147-177
  • Chapter 8 - Aristotle on the Stages of Cognitive Development
    pp 178-202
  • Chapter 9 - Epicureans on Preconceptions and Other Concepts
    pp 203-236
  • Chapter 10 - The Stoics on Conceptions and Concepts
    pp 237-258
  • Chapter 11 - Doing Things with Concepts in Sextus Empiricus
    pp 259-284
  • Chapter 12 - Relative Concepts
    pp 285-306
  • Chapter 13 - Concepts in Greek Mathematics
    pp 307-329
  • Chapter 14 - Platonist Notions and Forms
    pp 330-344
  • Chapter 15 - Contested Concepts
    pp 345-367
  • Plutarch’s On Common Conceptions
  • Chapter 16 - Alexander of Aphrodisias on Concepts
    pp 368-383
  • Chapter 17 - Plotinus on Concepts
    pp 384-403
  • Chapter 18 - Concepts in the Neoplatonist Tradition
    pp 404-426
  • Chapter 19 - Early Christian Philosophers on Concepts
    pp 427-451
  • Bibliography
    pp 452-475
  • Index
    pp 476-484

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