| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on Texts and Translations | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| I | Parmenides and the Inquiry into Nature | 24 |
| 1 | The Problem of the Argument in Aletheia | 28 |
| 2 | Parmenides' esti and the Search for Nature | 34 |
| 3 | Mortal Error and the Routes of Inquiry | 51 |
| II | Parmenides' Monism and the Arguments of B8 | 64 |
| 1 | Monism | 65 |
| 2 | The Arguments of B8 | 75 |
| 3 | Difference, Division, and Monism | 94 |
| III | Doxa and Deception | 98 |
| 1 | Puzzles | 100 |
| 2 | Doxa: Opposite Forms | 104 |
| 3 | The Lessons of Mortal Beliefs | 111 |
| 4 | Objections: Mortal Beliefs and Accounts of Experience | 116 |
| IV | Pluralism after Parmenides | 127 |
| 1 | The Question of Pluralism | 128 |
| 2 | Anaxagoras | 131 |
| 3 | Empedocles | 155 |
| 4 | Zeno and Some Problems of Divisibility | 171 |
| V | Atoms, Void, and Rearrangement | 180 |
| 1 | Atoms and Void | 184 |
| 2 | Void, Being, and the ou mallon Arguments | 188 |
| 3 | Knowing Void | 198 |
| 4 | Melissus on the One | 206 |
| VI | Final Remarks | 217 |
| 1 | Philolaus of Croton and Diogenes of Apollonia | 218 |
| 2 | The Last Presocratic: Plato and the Legacy of Parmenides | 228 |
| 3 | Conclusion | 241 |
| Bibliography | 243 |
| Index Locorum | 257 |
| Index Nominum | 264 |
| General Index | 269 |
