Table of Contents for Curd, P.: The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought.

The Legacy of Parmenides:
Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought
Patricia Curd

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

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