Pioneering collection of essays contributing to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

Ancient dialectic started as an art of refutation and evolved into a science akin to our logic, grammar and linguistics. Scholars of ancient philosophy have tra

Pioneering collection of essays contributing to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's "Topics," its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on th

In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato's "theory of forms" is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief