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      Publication date:
      April 2024
      May 2024
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      9781009369596
      9781009369572
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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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    Contents

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    • Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
      pp i-ii
    • Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy - Title page
      pp iii-iii
    • Copyright page
      pp iv-iv
    • Contents
      pp v-vi
    • Contributors
      pp vii-viii
    • Preface
      pp ix-xi
    • Abbreviations
      pp xii-xx
    • Introduction
      pp 1-15
    • Chapter 1 - The Emergence of the Concept in Early Greek Philosophy
      pp 16-34
    • Chapter 2 - The Place of Concepts in Socratic Inquiry
      pp 35-55
    • Chapter 3 - Early Learning in Plato, Republic 7
      pp 56-73
    • Chapter 4 - Are Platonic Forms Concepts?
      pp 74-95
    • Chapter 5 - Do Forms Play the Role of Concepts in Late Plato?
      pp 96-118
    • Chapter 6 - Concepts and Concept Formation in Aristotle’s Logical Works
      pp 119-146
    • Chapter 7 - Concepts and Universals in Aristotle’s Metaphysical Thought
      pp 147-177
    • Chapter 8 - Aristotle on the Stages of Cognitive Development
      pp 178-202
    • Chapter 9 - Epicureans on Preconceptions and Other Concepts
      pp 203-236
    • Chapter 10 - The Stoics on Conceptions and Concepts
      pp 237-258
    • Chapter 11 - Doing Things with Concepts in Sextus Empiricus
      pp 259-284
    • Chapter 12 - Relative Concepts
      pp 285-306
    • Chapter 13 - Concepts in Greek Mathematics
      pp 307-329
    • Chapter 14 - Platonist Notions and Forms
      pp 330-344
    • Chapter 15 - Contested Concepts
      pp 345-367
    • Plutarch’s On Common Conceptions
    • Chapter 16 - Alexander of Aphrodisias on Concepts
      pp 368-383
    • Chapter 17 - Plotinus on Concepts
      pp 384-403
    • Chapter 18 - Concepts in the Neoplatonist Tradition
      pp 404-426
    • Chapter 19 - Early Christian Philosophers on Concepts
      pp 427-451
    • Bibliography
      pp 452-475
    • Index
      pp 476-484

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