Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy

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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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Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
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Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy - Title page
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Contents
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Contributors
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - The Emergence of the Concept in Early Greek Philosophy
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Chapter 2 - The Place of Concepts in Socratic Inquiry
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- By Terence Irwin
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Chapter 3 - Early Learning in Plato, Republic 7
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Chapter 4 - Are Platonic Forms Concepts?
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Chapter 5 - Do Forms Play the Role of Concepts in Late Plato?
pp 96-118
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Chapter 6 - Concepts and Concept Formation in Aristotle’s Logical Works
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Chapter 7 - Concepts and Universals in Aristotle’s Metaphysical Thought
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Chapter 8 - Aristotle on the Stages of Cognitive Development
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Chapter 9 - Epicureans on Preconceptions and Other Concepts
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Chapter 10 - The Stoics on Conceptions and Concepts
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Chapter 11 - Doing Things with Concepts in Sextus Empiricus
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Chapter 12 - Relative Concepts
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Chapter 13 - Concepts in Greek Mathematics
pp 307-329
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Chapter 14 - Platonist Notions and Forms
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Chapter 15 - Contested Concepts
pp 345-367
Plutarch’s On Common Conceptions
- By Thomas Bénatouïl
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Chapter 16 - Alexander of Aphrodisias on Concepts
pp 368-383
- By Frans A.J. de Haas
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Chapter 17 - Plotinus on Concepts
pp 384-403
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Chapter 18 - Concepts in the Neoplatonist Tradition
pp 404-426
- By Péter Lautner
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Chapter 19 - Early Christian Philosophers on Concepts
pp 427-451
- By George Karamanolis
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Bibliography
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Index
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