• 1. Introduction


• 2. The Sources of Presocratic Philosophy, David T.Runia


• 3. Prehistory of Presocratic Philosophy in an Orientalizing Context, Walter Burkert


• 4. Milesian Measures: Time, Space, and Matter, Stephen A. White


• 5. The Cloud-Astrophyics of Xenophanes and Ionian Material Monism, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos


• 6. Heraclitus: Flux, Order, and Knowledge, Daniel W. Graham


• 7. Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8, Richard McKirahan


• 8. Anaxagoras and the Theory of Everything, Patricia Curd


• 9. Empedocles: Physical Divinity and Allegorical Myth, Oliver Primavesi


• 10. Two Problems in Pythagoreanism, Carl Huffman


• 11. Atomism's Eleatic Roots, David Sedley


• 12. Leucippus's Atomism, Daniel W. Graham


• 13. Speculating about Diogenes of Appolonia, André Laks


• 14. The Sophists, Michael Gagarin and Paul Woodruff


• 15. The Role of Hippocratic Medicine in the Formation of Early Greek Thought, Philip van der Eijk


• 16. Presocratic Cosmologies, R. J. Hankinson


• 17. Reason, Cause, and Explanation in Presocratic Philosophy, J. H. Lesher


• 18. Presocratic Theology, T. M. Robinson


• 19. Aristotle's Account of the Origins of Philosophy, Michael Frede


• 20. Classical Representations and Uses of the Presocratics, John Palmer

Patricia Curd is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University
Daniel Graham is Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University

This handbook brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy.