Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume VIII: 1990

`Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy ... has, under its founding editor, Julia Annas, rapidly established itself as a major journal in its field.' Times Literary Supplement

• André Laks: `The More' and `the Full': On the Reconstruction of Parmenides' Theory of Sensation in Theophrastus, De sensibus, 3-4; Hugh G. Benson: The Priority of Definition and the Socratic Elenchus; Cynthia A. Freeland: Scientific Explanation and Empirical Data in Aristotle's Meteorology; Stephen White: Is Aristotelian Happiness the Good Life or the Best Life?; David Gallop: Animals in the Poetics; Salim Kemal: Aristotle's Poetics in Avicenna's Commentary; Mark L. McPherran: Kahn on the Pre-Middle Platonic Dialogues: Comment on Charles Kahn, `On the Relative Date of the Gorgias and the Protagoras; Eric Lewis: `When Worlds Collide': David Furley's The Greek Cosmologists Volume I, The Formation of the Atomic Theory and its Earliest Critics; David Bostock: Plato and Nominalism: Critical Notice of Terry Penner, The Ascent from Nominalism; Elizabeth Asmis: Free Action and the Swerve: Review of Walter G. Englert, Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action