Strategies of Argument

This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics epistemology logic and science. The papers are organized around five broad topics: Plato Aristotle''s ethics and practical reasoning Aristotelian logic Hellenistic ethics and Hellenistic epistemology. Specific topics covered include the refutation of the hedonist in Plato''s Philebus the question of whether modern interpreters are right to read Plato''s Timaeus as proto-historical Aristotle''s argument concerning virtue Aristotle''s discussion of practical reasoning in the realm of ethics Aristotle''s logical theory classification and division of goods in ancient ethical theories and belief appearances and assent in Hellenistic epistemology.