Pre-Socratic Philosophy (PHIL 481.001 12239) An in-depth seminar on themes and thinkers of the era of Greek Philosophy before Socrates, (b. 470 - d. 399 BCE). Writing intensive.

Socrates was concerned with this life and how best to live it Our series continues with a man who changed the course of philosophical thinking. We do not know exactly what Socrates himself ...

Daniel Graham is an ancient philosophy professor at Brigham Young University. Science Before Socrates is his attempt to bestow belated credit upon the pre-Socratics.

The dichotomy between truth and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.

But we do know the first written evidence of thought experiments comes from ancient Greece, where pre-Socratic philosophers used them to solve math equations.

Daniel W. Graham, the A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, has received a contract from Cambridge University Press to produce a bilingual text of the Presocratic ...

Anaximander is one of the most popular pre-Socratic philosophers who argued that the origin is boundless and the boundless has no origin. Unlike Thales, he felt that the earth floated free in the ...

Reading British philosopher A.C. Grayling’s The History of Philosophy makes one feel as if travelling in a time machine; his discussion of pre-Socratic philosophy, medieval and modern thinkers ...