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Pre-Socratic Philosophers | Subject Guide

SCOPE: The purpose of this guide is to provide a starting point for research in our library for various topics. This particular guide contains selected print and electronic resources available through the Rouquette Library at Saint Joseph Seminary College. It is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of sources nor does it take the place of your own additional research. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Subject Headings: In the event that this subject guide does not contain what you need, try using the following selected subject headings to search in the Library Catalog. Cosmology ; Heraclitus ; Monism ; Parmenides ; Philosophers, Ancient ; Philosophy, Ancient ; Pre-Socratic Philosophers Other subject headings can be identified by using the multi-volume set of Library of Congress Subject Headings books located in the Reference Collection. SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHER: Bede Roselli. Call or email for an appointment.

ARTICLES in Rouquette Library


Adomenas, Mantas. Heraclitus on Religion. Phronesis. 44.2 (1999): 87-104. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5785606&db=aph> full text available through EBSCOhost] Arntzenius, Frank. Are There Really Instantaneous Velocities? The Monist 83.2 (2000): 187-208. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3591854&db=aph> full text available through EBSCOhost] Austin, Scott. Plato's Reception of Parmenides. Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 66.1 (2003): 247-249. floor] Bernardete, Seth. On Heraclitus. Review of Metaphysics 53.3 (2000): 613-634. available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Booth, N. B. Empedocles' Account of Breathing. Journal of Hellenic Studies 80 (1960): 10-15. [full text [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st [< click to follow a persistent link to [< click to follow a persistent link to

[full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] -----. A Mistake to Be Avoided in the Interpretation of Empedocles. Journal of Hellenic Studies 96 (1976): 147-148. floor] Brittain, Charles and John Palmer. The New Academy's Appeals to the Presocratics. Phronesis. 46.1 (2001): 38-74. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5209235&db=a ph> follow a persistent link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Cleve, Felix M. Understanding the Pre-Socratics: Philological or Philosophical Reconstruction? International Philosophical Quarterly 33.3 (1963): 445-464. Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Collobert, Catherine. Aristotle's Review of the Presocratics: Is Aristotle Finally an Historian of Philosophy? Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.3 (2002): 281-306. the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Drossart Lulofs, H. J. Aristotle's ITEPI TN. Journal of Hellenic Studies 77.1 (1957): 75-80. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Furley, D. Empedocles and the Clepsydra. Journal of Hellenic Studies 77 (1957): 31-34. available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Glazebrook, Trish. Zeno Against Mathematical Physics. Journal of the History of Ideas. 62.1 (2001): 193-207. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5440372&db=aph> a persistent link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Goldin, Owen. Heraclitean Satiety and Aristotelian Actuality. Monist 74.4 (1991): 568-578. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071693&db=aph> link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Granger, Herbert. Death's Other Kingdom: Heraclitus on the Life of the Foolish and the Wise. Classical Philology 95.3 (2000): 260-282. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4638848&db=aph> to full text available through EBSCOhost] [< click to follow a persistent link [< click to follow a persistent [< click to follow [full text [full text available in [full text available in the Bound [< click to [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st

Gurtler, Gar M. Plotinus and the Platonic Parmenides. International Philosophical Quarterly 32.4 (1992): 443-457. floor] Hershbell, J. P. The Idea of Strife in Early Greek Thought. The Personalist 53 (1974): 205-215. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Hoy, Ronald C. Parmenides Complete Rejection of Time. Journal of Philosophy 91.11 (1994): 573599. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st

Hussey, Edward. Heraclitus on Living and Dying. Monist 74.4 (1991): 517-530. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071687&db=aph> link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Kenig Curd, Patricia. Knowledge and Unity in Heraclitus. Monist 74.4 (1991): 531-549. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071689&db=aph> link to full text available through EBSCOhost] -----. Parmenidean Monism. Phronesis 91.36 (1991): 241-265. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=10435822&db=aph> to full text available through EBSCOhost] Ketchum, Richard. A Note on Barnes' Parmenides. Phronesis 38.1 (1993): 95-98. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=10435855&db=aph> to full text available through EBSCOhost] King, Walter N. Shakespeare and Parmenides: The Metaphysics of Twelfth Night. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 8.2 (1968): 283-306. Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Kingsley, Peter. From Pythagoras to the Turba Philosophorum: Egypt and Pythagorean Tradition. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 57 (1994): 1-13. <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4390%281994%2957%3C1%3AFPTTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2O> [< click to follow a persistent link to full text available through JSTOR, on campus only] [full text available in the Bound Serials [< click to follow a persistent link [< click to follow a persistent link [< click to follow a persistent [< click to follow a persistent

Kingsley, Peter and Bruce Nelson. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic: Empedocles and

Pythagorean Tradition. Parabola 21.4 (1996): 110-115. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Kirk, G. S. Natural Change in Heraclitus. Mind 60.237 (1951): 35-42. <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00264423%28195101%292%3A60%3A237%3C35%3ANCIH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4> a persistent link to full text available through JSTOR, on campus only] LePoidevin, Robin. Zeno's Arrow and the Significance of the Present. Philosophy 50 supplement (2002): 57-72. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] [full text available [< click to follow

Longrig, J. Empedocles' Fertile Fish. Journal of Hellenic Studies 4 (1974): 173. in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor]

Lovejoy, Arthur. The Meaning of in the Greek Physiologers. The Philosophical Review. 18.4 (1909): 369-383. <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031[< click to follow a

8108%28190907%2918%3A4%3C369%3ATMOITG%3E2.0.CO%> persistent link to full text available through JSTOR, on campus only] Mansfeld, Jaap. Presocratics. Phronesis 48.2 (2003): 164-174. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=10281970&db=aph> to full text available through EBSCOhost]

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McLaughlin, William. Resolving Zeno's Paradoxes. Scientific American 271.5 (1994): 84-90. text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Miller, Mitchell H. Unwritten Teachings in the Parmenides. Review of Metaphysics 48.3 (1995): 591-634. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor]

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Montiglio, Sylvia. Wandering Philosophers in Classical Greece. Journal of Hellenic Studies 120 (2000): 86-106. floor] Moravesik, J. M. Appearance and Reality in Heraclitus' Philosophy. Monist 74.4 (1991): 551-567. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071691&db=aph> link to full text available through EBSCOhost] [< click to follow a persistent [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st

Most, Glenn M. The Fire Next Time: Cosmology, Allegoresis, and Salvation in the Derveni Papyrus. Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997): 117-135. Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Nadaff, Gerard. On the Origin of Anaximander's Cosmological Model. Journal of the History of Ideas 59.1 (1998): 28. 1st floor] O'Brien, D. The Effects of a Simile: Empedocles' Theories of Seeing and Breathing. Journal of Hellenic Studies 90 (1970): 140-179. Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Palmer, John A. and Mary Louise Gill. Plato's Reception of Parmenides. Mind 110.439 (2001): 806-811. [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, [full text available in the Bound Serials

Papa-Grimaldi, Alba. Why Mathematical Solutions to Zeno's Paradoxes Miss the Point. Review of Metaphysics 50.2 (1996): 299-315. Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Peck, A. L. Plato Versus Parmenides? Philosophical Review 71 (1962): 159-184. available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Peterson, Sandra. Plato's Parmenides: A Principle of Interpretation and Seven Arguments. Journal of the History of Philosophy 34.2 (1996): 167-193. Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Philip, J. A. The Fragments of the Presocratic Philosophers. Phoenix 10.3 (1956): 116-123. <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00318299%28195623%2910%3A3%3C116%3ATFOTPP%3E2.0.CO%3B> persistent link to full text available through JSTOR, on campus only] Rickless, Samuel C. How Parmenides Saved the Theory of Forms. Philosophical Review 107.4 (1998): 501-555. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=2625936&db=aph> follow a persistent link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Robinson, Thomas M. Heraclitus and Plato on the Language of the Real. Monist 74.4 (1991): 481[< click to [< click to follow a [full text available in the Bound Serials [full text [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of

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Rochol, Hans. The Dialogue Parmenides: An Insoluble Enigma in Platonism? International Philosophical Quarterly 11.4 (1971): 496-520. Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Sanders, Scott Russell. Ancient Quartets. Parabola 20.1 (1995): 6-12. Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Shelley, Cameron. The Influence of Folk Meterology in the Anaximander Fragment. Journal of the History of Ideas 61.1 (2001): 1-16. Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Sprague, R. K. Empedocles, Hera and Cratylus 404c. Classical Review 22 (1972): 169. available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Stannard, Jerry. The Presocratic Origin of Explanatory Method. The Philosophical Quarterly 15.60 (1965): 193-206. < http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00318094%28196507%2915%3A60%3C193%3ATPOOEM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A> persistent link to full text available through JSTOR, on campus only] States, Bert O. Of Paradoxes and Tautologies. American Scholar 67.1 (1998): 51-67. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=61467&db=aph> full text available through EBSCOhost] Stern, David G. Heraclitus' and Wittgenstein's River Images: Stepping into the Same River. Monist 74.4 (1991): 579-604. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071695&db=aph> [< click to follow a persistent link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Vick, George R. Heidegger's Linguistic Rehabilitation of Parmenides' Being. American Philosophical Quarterly 8.2 (1971): 139-150. of Rouquette Library, 1st floor] Victorino, Tejera. Listening to Herakleitos. Monist 74.4 (1991): 491-516. <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9705071684&site=ehost[full text available in the Bound Serials Collection [< click to follow a persistent link to [< click to follow a [full text [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of [full text available in the [full text available in the Bound Serials

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Waugh, Joanne B. Heraclitus: Postmodern Socratic? Monist 74.4 (1991): 604-623. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071697&db=aph> link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Wilcox, Joel. Barbarian Psyche in Heraclitus. Monist 74.4 (1991): 624-637. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9705071698&db=aph> link to full text available through EBSCOhost] Wolpert, Lewis. The Well-Spring. Nature 405.6789 (2000): 887. <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3260502&db=aph> full text available through EBSCOhost] Zuckert, Catheirne H. Plato's Parmenides: A Dramatic Reading. Review of Metaphysics 51.4 (1998): 875-907. floor] [full text available in the Bound Serials Collection of Rouquette Library, 1st [< click to follow a persistent link to [< click to follow a persistent [< click to follow a persistent

BOOKS in Rouquette Library


RH 109 R765p v. 1 109 J312g 117 M229c 128 L149 180 G984h 180 P549 180 W52e 182 FRE 182 F877a 182 G586g 182 H362e 182 J175t 182 M217p 182 N558p 182 OWE Taylor, C. C. W., ed. From the Beginning to Plato. London: Routledge, 1997. [Series Title: Routledge History of Philosophy]

Jaspers, Karl. The Great Philosophers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962. McMullin, Ernan. The Concept of Matter in Greek and Medieval Philosophy. Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame, 1965. Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. The Pre-Socratics: The Cognitive Science of Early Greek Metaphysics in Philosophy in the Flesh. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Guthrie, W. K. C. A. History of Greek Philosophy. Cambridge MA: University Press, 1962-1981. Kaufmann, Walter. Philosophic Classics: Thales to St. Thomas. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963. West, M. L. Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Freeman, Kathleen. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. 2d. ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949. -----. Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Cambridge MA: Harvard Univerisity Press, 1966. Gomprez, Theodor. Greek Thinkers. New York: Humanities Press, 1964. Heidegger, Martin. Early Greek Thinking. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984. Jaeger, Werner. The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947. McKirahan, Richard D. Philosophy before Socrates:An Introduction with Texts and Commentary. Indianapolis: Hackett Publ, 1994. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. Chicago: Regenery Books, 1962. Owens, Joseph. A History of Ancient Western Philosophy. New York: Appleton-CenturyCrofts, 1959.

182 R552g 182 R563i 182 W247g 182 W571p 182. 09 St12c 182. 1 An18zk 182. 21 H124a 182. 3 M865r 182. 3 Z45z 182. 4 H412 M299h 182. 4 M333h 182. 4 R567h 182. 5 Ob6e 182.

Robin, Leon. Greek Thought and the Origins of the Scientific Spirit. New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. Robinson, J. M. An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy. Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1968. Warner, Rex. The Greek Philosophers. New York: New American Library, 1958. Wheelwright, Phillip Ellis. The Presocratics. New York: Odyssey Press, 1966. Stace, W. I. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Kahn, Charles H. Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. Hahn, Robert. Anaximander and the Architects: Contributions of Greek and Egyptian Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2001. Mourelatos, Alexander. The Route of Parmenides: A Study of Word, Image and Argument in the 'Fragments.' New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1970. Zeno of Elea. Zeno of Elea: A Text, with Translation and Notes. Amsterdam: Adof Hakkert, 1967. Maly, Kenneth and Parivs Emad, eds. Heidegger on Heraclitus. Lewiston NY: Mellen Press, 1986.

Markovich, Miroslav. Herakleitos. Stuttgart: A. Druckenmuller, 1967.

Heraclitis. Heraclitus: 'Fragments.' Toronto: University Press, 1987.

O'Brien, Denis. Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle: A Reconstruction from the 'Fragments' and Secondary Sources. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Parmenides. Parmenides of Elea: 'Fragments,' A Text and Translation with Introduction.

3 P241 G137p 184 P697pa 192. 08 T212p 193 H362h 531 G924m 575. 009 H24e 880. 91 V614m 938 R382t

Toronto: University Press, 1991.

Plato. Plato and Parmenides: Parmenides' 'Way of Truth' and Plato's 'Parmenides.' London: Routledge, 1964 Taylor, A. E. Philosophical Studies. Freeport NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1968.

Murray, Michael. Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1978. Greenbaum, Adolf. Modern Science and Zeno's 'Paradoxes.' Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. Harris, C. Leon. Evolution, Genesis, and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Versenyi, Laszlo. Man's Measure: A Study of the Greek Image of Man from Homer to Sophocles. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974. Richard, Carl J. Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
This pathfinder was compiled by Bede Roselli and cited using MLA Style, 6th ed, 2003.

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