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Ever since Thales fell into the well, popular imagination has pictured philosophers as abstracted from everyday reality. Materia Philosophiae: The Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy counters that view. Philosophy in ancient Greece grew out of and remained closely connected to the material realities around it—difficulties of travel, reliance on cumbersome scrolls, learning acquired literally at the foot of a master; but also the spread of coinage, contemporaneous achievements in technology and engineering, and contact with everyday household objects. By resituating philosophers in their material contexts, Materia Philosophiae opens research avenues that have not previously been explored in a single volume.
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Philosophical Argument and Material Realities An Introduction
William Wians and Robert Hahn
Part 1 Philosophers and Technologies
1 Material Modular Thinking, Substance Monism, and the Origins of Greek Philosophy Architecture, Gnomon, Coinage, and the Felting of Wool
Robert Hahn
2 Placing the Ionian Περι Φυσεως Ιστορια in Context The Role of Sea Trade, Colonization, Navigation and Analogies from Manufacturing Crafts (Τεχναι) in the Birth of Greek Science
Andrei Lebedev
3 Greek Ships, Seamanship and Cosmology
Andrew Gregory
4 The Gods and the Machine Ancient Automata and Divine Causation
Sylvia Berryman
Part 2 Thinking with Objects
5 Using a Household Artefact as an Epistemological Tool The Clepsydra in Anaxagoras, Aristotle's de Caelo, and Empedocles
Nathasja Roggo-van Luijn
6 The Metaphysics of the Coin-Image
Richard Seaford
7 Anaximenes and the Millstone
Dirk L. Couprie
8 Weaving the Double Square An (Im-)Material Contribution to Early Greek Mathematics
Ellen Harlizius-Klück and Giovanni Fanfani
Part 3 Philosophical Media and Their Messages
9 The Limited Relevance of Writing in Early Greek Philosophy and Science
Harold Tarrant
10 Metadiscourse The Fabric of Early Greek Philosophical Prose
Gaston Javier Basile
11 Materiality and Philosophy The Ancient Greek and Chinese Experiences Compared
G.E.R. Lloyd
Part 4 Philosophy and Ancient Embodiment
12 Thales and the Measure of Wisdom
Philip Thibodeau
13 New Insights into Pythagorean Women's Material Philosophy
Bella Vivante
14 Xenophanes the Sophist? Material Realities and Philosophical Innovation
William Wians
Index