Richard Mckirahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 970916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Mckirahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckirahan |
| SIGNATURE | MCKIRAHAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure ed. by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork (review)
Reviewed by: Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure ed. by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork Richard McKirahan Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork (eds.). Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure. Philosophia Antiqua, 134. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xi, 332. $162.00. ISBN 978–90–04–25120–5. Most of our information about Protagoras is due either directly or indirectly to Plato, who featur…
Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato by Jenny Bryan (review)
Reviewed by: Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato by Jenny Bryan Richard McKirahan Jenny Bryan. Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 210. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76294-6. This book is dedicated to the interpretation of the words ἐοικώς/εἰκώς in their appearances in two lines of philosophical verse (Xenophanes B 35: ταῦτα δεδοξάσθα…
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans by Leonid Zhmud (review)
Reviewed by: Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans by Leonid Zhmud Richard McKirahan Leonid Zhmud . Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxiv, 491 . $185.00 . ISBN 978–0-19–928931–8 . This is a major revision and expansion of Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus (1997), described by one reviewer as the most important contribution to Pythagorean studies in thirty years—a pe…
Thales: Thales
In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica , the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collection ever assembled of the documentary evidence on Thales of Miletus. Approximately 600 texts, dating from the sixth century BCE to the fourteenth century CE, are presented in chronological order, both in the original language (Greek, Latin, Arabic and Persian) and in a facing English translation. The…
On Pythagoreanism
On Pythagoreanism
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, 2 vols (review)
Reviewed by: The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, 2 vols Richard McKirahan Daniel W. Graham (ed. and tr.). The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 1020. $189.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-521-84591-5; $103.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-521-60842-8. Graham’s book (TEGP) is “the first bilingual sourcebook of the Presocratics with English as the target language” (13). It aims to serve as “a bridge between the intr…
Parmenides B8.38 and Cornford’s Fragment
Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8
David Sedley recently complained that despite the enormous amount of work on Parmenides in the past generation, the details of Parmenides' arguments have received insufficient attention. It is universally recognized that Parmenides' introduction of argument into philosophy was a move of paramount importance. It is also recognized that the arguments of fragment B8 are closely related. At the beginning of B8, Parmenides asserts that what-is has sev…
De Natura Deorum 1.65, Saving the Text
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Presocratic Philosophy
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie présocratique ?: What is presocratic philosophy ?
« 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…
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…
On the Heavens, I and II
Aristoteles, Analytica Posteriora
Explaining an Eclipse: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics 2.1-10 . Owen Goldin
Aristotle and Mathematics: Aporetic Method in Cosmology and Metaphysics . John J. Cleary
Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science
Socrates and Protagoras on Holiness and Justice ("Protagoras" 330c-332a)
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION raised in the Protagoras is how the virtues are related to one another. Socrates believes that the virtues are the same,1 Protagoras (330a-b, 349c) that they are distinct and dissimilar parts of virtue, different kinds of things, each with its own power. Major philosophical passages of the Protagoras (330-334, 349-end) see Socrates attempting to win Protagoras over to his view. Initially he argues for the sameness of pairs o…
Aristotelian Epagoge in Prior Analytics 2. 21 and Posterior Analytics 1. 1
Aristotelian Epagoge In Prior Analytics 2. 21 and Posterior Analytics 1. 1 RICHARD D. McKIRAHAN, JR. I THE PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY of induction begins with Aristotle. For him it was a fundamental mode of thought I that merited treatment for its importance in logic, scientific method, dialectic, and rhetoricY Consequently, we would expect Aristotle to say just what he means by epagoge. However, Ross's survey of the passages where Aristotle uses the te…
Diodorus and prior and the master argument
Aristotle's Subordinate Sciences
The relations between different areas of knowledge have been a subject of interest to philosophers as well as to scientists and mathematicians from antiquity. While recent work in this direction has been largely concerned with the question whether one branch of knowledge (such as arithmetic) can be reduced to another (such as logic), the questions which exercised the Greek philosophers on these matters have a different starting point. Taking for …
Aristotle's Subordinate Sciences
The relations between different areas of knowledge have been a subject of interest to philosophers as well as to scientists and mathematicians from antiquity. While recent work in this direction has been largely concerned with the question whether one branch of knowledge (such as arithmetic) can be reduced to another (such as logic), the questions which exercised the Greek philosophers on these matters have a different starting point. Taking for …
Thales: Thales
In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica , the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collection ever assembled of the documentary evidence on Thales of Miletus. Approximately 600 texts, dating from the sixth century BCE to the fourteenth century CE, are presented in chronological order, both in the original language (Greek, Latin, Arabic and Persian) and in a facing English translation. The…
Aristotle's Subordinate Sciences
The relations between different areas of knowledge have been a subject of interest to philosophers as well as to scientists and mathematicians from antiquity. While recent work in this direction has been largely concerned with the question whether one branch of knowledge (such as arithmetic) can be reduced to another (such as logic), the questions which exercised the Greek philosophers on these matters have a different starting point. Taking for …
Diodorus and prior and the master argument
Aristotelian Epagoge in Prior Analytics 2. 21 and Posterior Analytics 1. 1
Aristotelian Epagoge In Prior Analytics 2. 21 and Posterior Analytics 1. 1 RICHARD D. McKIRAHAN, JR. I THE PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY of induction begins with Aristotle. For him it was a fundamental mode of thought I that merited treatment for its importance in logic, scientific method, dialectic, and rhetoricY Consequently, we would expect Aristotle to say just what he means by epagoge. However, Ross's survey of the passages where Aristotle uses the te…
Socrates and Protagoras on Holiness and Justice ("Protagoras" 330c-332a)
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION raised in the Protagoras is how the virtues are related to one another. Socrates believes that the virtues are the same,1 Protagoras (330a-b, 349c) that they are distinct and dissimilar parts of virtue, different kinds of things, each with its own power. Major philosophical passages of the Protagoras (330-334, 349-end) see Socrates attempting to win Protagoras over to his view. Initially he argues for the sameness of pairs o…
Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science
Aristotle and Mathematics: Aporetic Method in Cosmology and Metaphysics . John J. Cleary
Aristoteles, Analytica Posteriora
Explaining an Eclipse: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics 2.1-10 . Owen Goldin
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…
On the Heavens, I and II
Qu'est-ce que la philosophie présocratique ?: What is presocratic philosophy ?
« 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…
Presocratic Philosophy
Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8
David Sedley recently complained that despite the enormous amount of work on Parmenides in the past generation, the details of Parmenides' arguments have received insufficient attention. It is universally recognized that Parmenides' introduction of argument into philosophy was a move of paramount importance. It is also recognized that the arguments of fragment B8 are closely related. At the beginning of B8, Parmenides asserts that what-is has sev…
De Natura Deorum 1.65, Saving the Text
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
Parmenides B8.38 and Cornford’s Fragment
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, 2 vols (review)
Reviewed by: The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, 2 vols Richard McKirahan Daniel W. Graham (ed. and tr.). The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 1020. $189.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-521-84591-5; $103.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-521-60842-8. Graham’s book (TEGP) is “the first bilingual sourcebook of the Presocratics with English as the target language” (13). It aims to serve as “a bridge between the intr…
On Pythagoreanism
On Pythagoreanism
Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato by Jenny Bryan (review)
Reviewed by: Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato by Jenny Bryan Richard McKirahan Jenny Bryan. Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. viii, 210. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76294-6. This book is dedicated to the interpretation of the words ἐοικώς/εἰκώς in their appearances in two lines of philosophical verse (Xenophanes B 35: ταῦτα δεδοξάσθα…
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans by Leonid Zhmud (review)
Reviewed by: Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans by Leonid Zhmud Richard McKirahan Leonid Zhmud . Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . Pp. xxiv, 491 . $185.00 . ISBN 978–0-19–928931–8 . This is a major revision and expansion of Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus (1997), described by one reviewer as the most important contribution to Pythagorean studies in thirty years—a pe…
Thales: Thales
In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica , the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collection ever assembled of the documentary evidence on Thales of Miletus. Approximately 600 texts, dating from the sixth century BCE to the fourteenth century CE, are presented in chronological order, both in the original language (Greek, Latin, Arabic and Persian) and in a facing English translation. The…
Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure ed. by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork (review)
Reviewed by: Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure ed. by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork Richard McKirahan Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork (eds.). Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure. Philosophia Antiqua, 134. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xi, 332. $162.00. ISBN 978–90–04–25120–5. Most of our information about Protagoras is due either directly or indirectly to Plato, who featur…
Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
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