Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 September 2026
- ISBN 9780197834886
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 211x151x34 mm
- Weight 517 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Matthew Evans offers a new interpretation of the ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides of Elea, challenging the standard view that he simply denied the possibility of change. Instead, it shows that Parmenides was deeply invested in the enterprise of the empirical sciences, and that in his view the proper development of this enterprise depends on distinguishing sharply between the things we encounter in the world around us and the underlying nature or reality of these things. Blending clear explanations with close readings, the book reveals how Parmenides's ideas have shaped philosophy and science from the beginning.
MoreLong description:
Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics offers a novel and comprehensive solution to one of the oldest interpretive puzzles in the history of ancient Greek philosophy: the so-called "problem of the Doxa." This puzzle arises out of an apparent conflict between the main part of Parmenides' poem, called "the Aletheia," and the cosmological part, called "the Doxa." Whereas in the Aletheia he seems to argue that nothing is generated, divided, or changing, in the Doxa he seems to presuppose that lots of things are. Over the last century, the standard solution to this puzzle has been to marginalize the Doxa, and hold that, according to Parmenides, the theory presented there is logically or rationally incoherent.
Matthew Evans defends an alternative solution: the two parts of the poem are not at odds with each other, because each of them is about a distinct kind of thing. Evans argues that the cosmological part is about the things we encounter in the world around us, while the main part is about the underlying nature or reality of such things. By working carefully and systematically through the poem's most challenging passages, the book shows how this alternative solution makes surprisingly good sense. It also shows, at a deeper level, how continuous the discipline of metaphysics has been, from the beginning, with the theory-building enterprise of the empirical sciences.
Table of Contents:
The Problem of the Doxa
Starting Points
Moving Forward
Looking Back
Mortal Error
Wanderers
The Possibility of Cosmology
How to Know
Back to the Beginning
A Translation of Selected Fragments
