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Aristotle's tyche (τύχη) and contemporary debates about luck

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 401-414, July 2024.
Abstract This paper proposes an interpretation of Aristotle's understanding of tyche (τύχη), a Greek term that can be alternatively translated as luck, fortune, or fate. The paper disentangles various threads of argument in the primary sources to argue for a realist understanding of what we moderns call “luck.” In short, it contends that Aristotle's ...
Louis Groarke
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The Milesian School: the Relationship between Religion and Philosophy

Literatūra (Vilnius)
This article proposes an interpretation of the fragments of the Milesian thinkers which aims to demonstrate the compatibility of their thought with the Greek religious tradition.
Mykolas Degutis
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Los Antecedentes Presocráticos de la Teoría Estoica de Conflagración

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2022
In this paper, I explore the Presocratic antecedents of the Stoic theory of conflagration and argue that, even though three central theses of this theory have solid antecedents in Presocratic physics, the logical connection between them is a Stoic ...
Ricardo Salles
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¿Tiene Anaxímenes una teoría del cambio?

Tópicos, 2013
For a long time it has been argued that, amongst the first presocratics, Anaximenes is whom possessed the most detailed theory of change. Indeed, his theory of change was one of his fundamental contributions to history of philosophy.
Daniel Graham
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Aristotle on pre-Platonic theories of sense-perception and knowledge

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
This paper is an attempt to make sense of Aristotle’s polemic –and, if taken at face value, quite evidently wrong– contention that the ancient thinkers globally failed to distinguish thought and knowledge from sensation.
Luis Andrés Bredlow
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Certa via cap a l’ànima del món

BRAC, 2023
L’any 2021 un col·lectiu d’artistes va inaugurar a Girona una instal·lació que mereix una anàlisi detallada, donada la densitat de referències que presenta. El col·lectiu va titular la instal·lació Incerta via, un projecta on explícitament pretenien fer
Roger Ferrer
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Style Matters in Presocratic Philosophy, an introduction

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental
What we envisaged as a dossier to explore the connection between style and philosophy in this unique transitional period of Presocratic philosophy has turned out to be a volume that breaks with several conventional views of the Presocratics and has the ...
Celso Vieira, Gabriele Cornelli
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Empedocles and the Other Physiologists in Aristotle’s Physics II 8

Peitho, 2016
In this paper I propose to show: 1) that in Phys. II 8 Aristotle takes Empedocles as a paradigm for a theoretical position common to all philosophers who preceded him: the view that materialism implies a mechanistic explanation of natural becoming; and 2)
Giovanna R. Giardina
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Parmenides as Psychologist — Part Two: DK 6 and 7

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2017
The aim of this essay is to examine an aspect of Parmenides’ poem which is often overlooked: the psychological grounds Parmenides uses to construct his view.
Nicola Galgano
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Parmenides as psychologist – Part one: fragments DK 1 and 2

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2016
The aim of this essay is to examine an aspect of Parmenides’ poem which is often overlooked: the psychological grounds Parmenides uses to construct his view.
Nicola S Galgano
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