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Early Greek Philosophies of Nature (Hardcover)
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Early Greek Philosophies of Nature (Hardcover)
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This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek
thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is
required in our understanding of them. In contrast with the natural
world of the earliest Greek literature, often the result of
arbitrary divine causation, in the work of early Ionian
philosophers we see the idea of a cosmos: ordered worlds where
there is complete regularity. How was this order generated and
maintained and what underpinned those regularities? What analogies
or models were used for the order of the cosmos? What did they
think about causation and explanatory structure? How did they frame
natural laws? Andrew Gregory draws on recent work on mechanistic
philosophy and its history, on the historiography of the relation
of science to art, religion and magic, and on the fragments and
doxography of the early Greek thinkers to argue that there has been
a tendency to overestimate the extent to which these early Greek
philosophies of nature can be described as ‘mechanistic’. We
have underestimated how far they were committed to other modes of
explanation and ontologies, and we have underestimated,
underappreciated and indeed underexplored how plausible and good
these philosophies would have been in context.
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