Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Science and Classical Greece

   1. The Role of Observation in Plato’s Conception of Astronomy

      • Gregory Vlastos

      Pages 1-27

   2. The Unity of Scientific Inquiry and Categorial Theory in Aristotle

      • John P. Anton

      Pages 29-43

   3. Knowledge and Belief in Plato’s Republic

      • Gerasimos Santas

      Pages 45-59

   4. Some Thoughts on Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

      • Georgios Anagnostopoulos

      Pages 61-80

   5. Alcmeon’s and Hippocrates’s Concept of Aetia

      • D. Z. Andriopoulos

      Pages 81-90

   6. Experience and Causal Explanation in Medical Empiricism

      • Theresa Pentzopoulou-Valalas

      Pages 91-107

   7. Soul as Attunement: An Analogy or a Model?

      • Theodore Scaltsas

      Pages 109-119

   8. The Hypotheses of Mathematics in Plato’s Republic and his Contribution to the Axiomatization of Geometry

      • Vassilis Karasmanis

      Pages 121-135

   9. Rediscovering Some Stoic Arguments

      • Katerina Ierodiakonou

      Pages 137-148

   10. Models of Change: A Common Ground for Ancient Greek Philosophy and Modern Science

       • Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou

       Pages 149-169

   11. Criteria Concerning the Birth of a New Science: The Case of Greek Astronomy

       • Vassilis Kalfas

       Pages 171-185

3. Science and the Modern Greek Enlightenment

   1. The Idea of Science in the Modern Greek Enlightenment

      • Paschalis M. Kitromilides

      Pages 187-200

   2. The History of the Theory of Natural Sciences: A Paradigm

      • Panayiotis Noutsos

      Pages 201-208

4. Science Studies

   1. Evolutionary Epistemology on Universals as Innate Classificatory Devices

      • Costas B. Krimbas

      Pages 209-225

   2. The Development of Freudian Theory: The Role of the ‘Centre’ and the ‘Excentric’ in Theory Production and Diffusion

      • A. Tzavaras, G. Papagounos

      Pages 227-237

   3. Law and Economics: Methodological Problems in Their Interdisciplinary Cooperation

      • Petros A. Gemtos

      Pages 239-250

5. Studies of Physics

   1. From Gases and Liquids to Fluids: The Formation of New Concepts during the Development of Theories of Liquids

      • Kostas Gavroglu

      Pages 251-277

   2. A Matter of Order: A Controversy between Heisenberg and London

      • Yorgos Goudaroulis

      Pages 279-291

   3. Once Again on the Meaning of Physical Concepts

      • Aristides Baltas

      Pages 293-313

Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider­ ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).

• Aristotle
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Greek philosophy
• Plato
• Theory of Meaning
• ancient philosophy
• axiomatization
• falsification
• philosophy
• philosophy of science
• relativism

• National Technical University of Athens, Greece

  Pantelis Nicolacopoulos

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