Eliminativism in Ancient Philosophy

Greek and Buddhist Philosophers on Material Objects

Professor Ugo Zilioli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-10516-4 (ISBN)

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A comparative investigation in the metaphysics of material objects in ancient philosophy, this book provides radically new insights into key themes and areas of ancient thought by drawing on Greek and Buddhist philosophies.
Ugo Zilioli explicates the neglected tradition of philosophers who in different ways made material objects either redundant or ontologically dispensable in the ancient world. Chapters cover concepts such as nihilism, indeterminacy, solipsism and tropes, demonstrating how the philosophy of major thinkers Protagoras, Vasubandhu, Gorgias, Nagarjuna, Pyrrho, and the Cyrenaics advance our understanding of eliminativism.
Zilioli’s historical and philosophical reconstruction challenges traditional readings of key moments and figures in the history of thought, both Eastern and Western, as well as providing conceptual tools that are of interest not only to historians of philosophy but also to contemporary metaphysicians.

Ugo Zilioli is Leverhulme Researcher at the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University and Associate Member of Lady Margaret Hall, UK.His main publications include: The Cyrenaics (2014), Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism(2016); as editor, From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools (2015); Atomism in Philosophy: A History from Antiquity to the Present (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Nothing For Us?
1. Protagoras’ Secret Doctrine: An Exercise in Ancient Eliminativism
2. Twins and Dharmas. Protagoras and Vasubandhu on a Two-Tier Ontology of Tropes
3. Gorgias and Nagarjuna on Nihilism
4. On Things. The Origin and Genealogy of Pyrrho’s Metaphysics
5. The Cyrenaics on Elusive Objects
6. The Cyrenaics on Solipsism and Privacy
Conclusion: Eliminativism, Indeterminacy and Nihilism Between East and West

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-350-10516-3 / 1350105163
ISBN-13	978-1-350-10516-4 / 9781350105164
Zustand	Neuware