Lecture Notes

• Thales
• Anaximander
• Anaximenes
• Heraclitus
• The Ship of Theseus
• Parmenides, Stage 1
• Parmenides, Stage 2
• Zeno’s race course, part 1
• Zeno against plurality
• Zeno’s race course, part 2
• Zeno’s Paradox of the Arrow
• Empedocles
• Anaxagoras
• Atomism
• Socratic Definitions
• Meno’s Paradox
• Plato’s Phaedo
• Forms as objects of knowledge
• The “One Over Many” Argument
• Allegory of the Cave
• Criticism of Forms
• Plato’s Cosmology: The Timaeus
• Aristotle’s Categories: Predication and Ontology
• Aristotle on Change
• The Four Causes
• Aristotle on Substance, Matter, and Form
• Aristotle on the Soul

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