Daniel W Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1109629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel W Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel W |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1721-9303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aristotle’s Μετεωρολογικά
Aristotle’s Meteorologica is one of the least studied of Aristotle’s major works, and scholars who do study it often concentrate on its logical and theoretical aspects rather than on the empirical science contained in it. The two authors of this study are professional meteorologists from Greece: Anastasios Tsonis, emeritus distinguished professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Christos Zer…
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I
Reviewed by: Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Introductory and Reference Materials trans. and ed. by André Laks and Glenn W. Most Daniel W. Graham André Laks and Glenn W. Most (eds. and trs.). Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Introductory and Reference Materials. Loeb Classical Library 524. Cambridge, MA, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 257. $26.00. ISBN 978-0-674-99654-0. Volume II: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers…
Presocratic Philosophy
On the Date of Chaerephon's Visit to Delphi
When did the oracle at Delphi tell Chaerephon that no one was wiser than Socrates (if at all)? Scholars have defended dates of 431 B.C.E. or earlier, and 421 or later, but these dates do not accord well with events of Socrates' life. We propose a date of 426, during the sacred truce for the Pythian games
Explaining the Cosmos
Plato and Anaximenes
In Timaeus 49, Plato sympathetically describes Anaximenes’ theory of matter, with its seven states of matter, its contrary mechanisms of rarefaction and condensation, and notion that the birth of one elements is the death of another. Plato treats Anaximenes as a kind of philosopher of process rather than a material monist, as Aristotle portrays him. From this perspective, Anaximenes can be seen as a forerunner of Heraclitus rather than of Diogene…
Heraclitus
Philolaus
This chapter examines Philolaus of Croton the philosopher in an attempt to understand his contributions to fifth-century thought. The phrase "having number" seems to have a set meaning in the Pythagorean tradition. From Anaximander on, philosophy was often understood as the study of nature, and the study of nature began with cosmogony and cosmology. Carl Huffman has done much to rehabilitate Philolaus astronomy as a viable theory in the context o…
A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted …
Once More unto the Stream
Explaining the Cosmos
Leucippus's Atomism
The founder of atomic theory, according to Aristotle and Theophrastus, is Leucippus. His very existence has been called into question. Three of the best minds of nineteenth-century scholarship were embroiled in a vehement debate on this question, which thereupon became a cause célèbre, with scholars weighing in on both sides for the next half century. Ultimately this debate seems to have ended in stalemate and exhaustion rather than in any clear-…
Heraclitus
Renewed interest in the Presocratics of the last few decades has not ignored Heraclitus, and some new and fruitful lines of inquiry are now being pursued. This article on Heraclitus presents a unified Heraclitus who is a thoughtful critic of his predecessors, and keenly interested in the possibility of human understanding. This Heraclitus rejects the Milesian account of a single substance with systematic changes and transformations that guarantee…
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
400 PHOENIX passages and theirunderlyingcontexts. Moreover, few are likelyto findfault with the claim thatdiscussionsof thegrain supplyareoftencloaked indemocraticrhetoric. But his centralargumentthatthisrhetoric masks a "reality of elitecontrol"(324) is considerably more problematic, and not merely because, aside from Andocides, we have no evidence whatsoever, asMoreno freely admits, for even "a single politically prominent Athenian who isalso a…
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy. In the sixth and fifth centuries bc a new kind of thinker appeared in Greek city-states, dedicated to finding the origins of the world and everything in it, using observation and reason rather than tradition and myth. We call these thinkers Presocratic philosop…
Socrates on Samos
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Was Anaxagoras a Reductionist?
A testimony of Anaximenes in Plato
No source earlier than Aristotle mentions Anaximenes by name,I and for that reason it is sometimes asserted that Plato himself had no acquaintance with Anaximenes.2 In the twenty-three testimonies given in Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, for Anaximenes of Miletus, there is none from a source earlier than Aristotle. Similarly, Kirk in The Presocratic Philosophers recognizes no early testimony.3 W6hrle's recent edition of Anaximenes (1993…
Does Nature Love to Hide? Heraclitus B123 DK
Kahn has rights pointed to the verbal complexity in Heraclitus' expression, and a personification of nature would be no more startling than many striking images he uses. The literal translation of the verb as "loves" or the like has been popular among translators
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie présocratique ?
« Philosophie présocratique » : un objet historique, et donc construit, dont on peut tracer l’origine, comprendre les enjeux, et suivre les avatars. Mais quelle en est la légitimité ? Telle est la question que la série de contributions réunies dans le présent volume explore. Il s’agit à la fois de mieux comprendre comment la réflexion philosophique a trouvé, en Grèce, les voies d’un développement spécifique, et de s’interroger sur les instruments…
Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Clarendon Aristotle Series: Physics: Book VIII
"The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'." "Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate …
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
Empedocles and Anaxagoras
There is no question that Parmenides' poem was a watershed in the history of early Greek philosophy. No serious thinker could ignore his work. And yet it seems to pose insuperable problems for cosmology and scientific inquiry. The first generation to follow Parmenides includes thinkers who wished to continue the tradition of Ionian speculation. But how would they confront Parmenides? What would they make of him and what effect would his arguments…
Heraclitus
States and Performances
In Metaphysics 0 6 Aristotle proposes a division of actions into evepyetoc (actualizations) and XLv~aTL (movements). He divides actions into these two classes in accordance with a linguistic test: is a description of the action in the perfect tense true at the same time as a description in the present tense? This test has been plausibly recast as an entailment relation:1 does the present tense description entail the perfect? I shall call Aristotl…
Symmetry in the Empedoclean Cycle
According to the traditional view of Empedocles' cosmic cycle, there are two creations of plants and animals, one under the dominion of increasing Strife and one under the dominion of increasing Love. At the point at which Strife holds complete sway the four elements are completely separated and all life is destroyed; at the point at which Love is completely dominant there is also a destruction of the biological world, this time because the eleme…
A testimony of Anaximenes in Plato
No source earlier than Aristotle mentions Anaximenes by name,I and for that reason it is sometimes asserted that Plato himself had no acquaintance with Anaximenes.2 In the twenty-three testimonies given in Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, for Anaximenes of Miletus, there is none from a source earlier than Aristotle. Similarly, Kirk in The Presocratic Philosophers recognizes no early testimony.3 W6hrle's recent edition of Anaximenes (1993…
Does Nature Love to Hide? Heraclitus B123 DK
Kahn has rights pointed to the verbal complexity in Heraclitus' expression, and a personification of nature would be no more startling than many striking images he uses. The literal translation of the verb as "loves" or the like has been popular among translators
States and Performances
In Metaphysics 0 6 Aristotle proposes a division of actions into evepyetoc (actualizations) and XLv~aTL (movements). He divides actions into these two classes in accordance with a linguistic test: is a description of the action in the perfect tense true at the same time as a description in the present tense? This test has been plausibly recast as an entailment relation:1 does the present tense description entail the perfect? I shall call Aristotl…
Some Myths about Aristotle's Biological Motivation
Aristotle was the first scientific biologist of whom we have any record. He was the first to amass precise observations concerning animals, their structure and behavior, the first to attempt to systematize the data he had collected, and the first to bring to bear on his data sophisticated theoretical machinery. Aristotle's philosophy contains elements which readily accommodate biological facts. For instance, the theory of sub- stance seems tailor…
The Paradox of Prime Matter
The Paradox of Prime Matter DANIEL W. GRAHAM TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF Aristotle hold that he posited the existence of prime matter--a purely indeterminate substratum underlying all material composition and providing the ultimate potentiality for all material existence. A number of revisionary interpretations have appeared in the last thirty years which deny that Aristotle had a concept of prime matter, provoking an even larger number of vig…
Symmetry in the Empedoclean Cycle
According to the traditional view of Empedocles' cosmic cycle, there are two creations of plants and animals, one under the dominion of increasing Strife and one under the dominion of increasing Love. At the point at which Strife holds complete sway the four elements are completely separated and all life is destroyed; at the point at which Love is completely dominant there is also a destruction of the biological world, this time because the eleme…
The Etymology of Entelexeia
Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, vol. 4
Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, vol. 4: A festschrift for J.L. Ackrill." History of European Ideas, 10(1), pp. 103–104
Aristotle's Two Systems
This study addresses major problems in interpreting Aristotle such as whether the reader should reconcile the apparent inconsistencies of the corpus by assuming an underlying unity of doctrine (unitarianism), or by positing a sequence of developing ideas (developmentalism).
Socrates, the Craft Analogy, and Science
From the outset Platonic science is explicitly polemically, and unabashedly teleological. The prominent fact about Plato's orientation so far lacks an adequate historical explanation. Two classic studies on the subject contribute helpful background information. Willy Theiler finds limited anticipations of a teleological account of science in Diogenes of Apollonia. Friedrich Solmsen (1963) studies the image of nature as a craftsman.
Aristotle's Two Systems
Socrates and Plato
Within a decade after Socrates' death his followers were already battling over the rights to his spiritual legacy. Antisthenes and Aeschines, Euclides and Aristippus suffered literary oblivion; but the works of Plato and Xenophon survived to give, if not utterly different, at least contrasting pictures of their master. In modern times Xenophon has suffered badly from the revelation that he gleaned material from other writers.' Plato offers us two…
The Postulates of Anaxagoras
Among many points which remain controversial in the study of Anaxagoras, one of the most persistent and perhaps most fundamental is the question whether he is a clear-headed thinker with coherent theory and a proper grasp of philosophical issues, or whether he is a muddled obscurantist whose occasionally bold insights are attributable more to a lively imagination than to rigorous thought.
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume II
Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now consider…
Heraclitus’ Criticism of Ionian Philosophy
In the ancient tradition of interpretation, Heraclitus is known for five doctrines which are of importance for an overall interpretation: (I) Fire is the άρχή or original material cause of the world; (2) there are periodic episodes of world conflagration (ε κπύρωσις) when the cosmos is consumed, to be regenerated later; (3) everything is in flux;-’ (4) the opposites are identical;’ and (in consequence of (3) and (4) ), (5) Heraclitus violates the…
Studies in Greek Philosophy. 1
Clarendon Aristotle Series: Physics: Book VIII
"The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'." "Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate …
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
Empedocles and Anaxagoras
There is no question that Parmenides' poem was a watershed in the history of early Greek philosophy. No serious thinker could ignore his work. And yet it seems to pose insuperable problems for cosmology and scientific inquiry. The first generation to follow Parmenides includes thinkers who wished to continue the tradition of Ionian speculation. But how would they confront Parmenides? What would they make of him and what effect would his arguments…
Platonic Ethics, Old and New
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie présocratique ?
« Philosophie présocratique » : un objet historique, et donc construit, dont on peut tracer l’origine, comprendre les enjeux, et suivre les avatars. Mais quelle en est la légitimité ? Telle est la question que la série de contributions réunies dans le présent volume explore. Il s’agit à la fois de mieux comprendre comment la réflexion philosophique a trouvé, en Grèce, les voies d’un développement spécifique, et de s’interroger sur les instruments…
A testimony of Anaximenes in Plato
No source earlier than Aristotle mentions Anaximenes by name,I and for that reason it is sometimes asserted that Plato himself had no acquaintance with Anaximenes.2 In the twenty-three testimonies given in Diels-Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, for Anaximenes of Miletus, there is none from a source earlier than Aristotle. Similarly, Kirk in The Presocratic Philosophers recognizes no early testimony.3 W6hrle's recent edition of Anaximenes (1993…
Does Nature Love to Hide? Heraclitus B123 DK
Kahn has rights pointed to the verbal complexity in Heraclitus' expression, and a personification of nature would be no more startling than many striking images he uses. The literal translation of the verb as "loves" or the like has been popular among translators
Was Anaxagoras a Reductionist?
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy. In the sixth and fifth centuries bc a new kind of thinker appeared in Greek city-states, dedicated to finding the origins of the world and everything in it, using observation and reason rather than tradition and myth. We call these thinkers Presocratic philosop…
Socrates on Samos
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Explaining the Cosmos
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