{"product_id":"ancient-relativity-plato-aristotle-stoics-and-sceptics-hardcover","title":"Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Duncombe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdeas about relativity underlie much ancient Greek philosophy, from Protagorean relativism, to Plato's theory of Forms, Aristotle's category scheme, and relational logic. In \u003cem\u003eAncient Relativity\u003c\/em\u003e Matthew Duncombe explores how ancient philosophers, particularly Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, understood the phenomenon and how their theories of relativity affected, and were affected by, their broader philosophical outlooks. He argues that ancient philosophers shared a close-knit family of views referred to as 'constitutive relativity', whereby a relative is not simply linked by a relation but is constituted by it. Plato exploits this view in some key arguments concerning the Forms and the partition of the soul. Aristotle adopts the constitutive view in his discussions of relativity in \u003cem\u003eCategories\u003c\/em\u003e 7 and the \u003cem\u003eTopics\u003c\/em\u003e and retains it in \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics\u003c\/em\u003e Delta 15. Duncombe goes on to examine the role relativity plays in Stoic philosophy, especially Stoic physics and\u003cbr\u003emetaphysics, and the way Sextus Empiricus thinks about relativity, which does not appeal to the nature of relatives but rather to how we conceive of things as correlative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Duncombe, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatthew Duncombe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Durham University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Groningen. He studied philosophy and Classics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests focus on ancient Greek philosophy, particularly logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42164316864647,"sku":"9780198846185","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3a30fad577fa67ab87f9915964a0228f.webp?v=1733304746","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/ancient-relativity-plato-aristotle-stoics-and-sceptics-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}