Canonics

File List

The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

  1. David Glidden - Aristotelian Perception and the Problem of Hellenistic Representation

    • Cassius
    • March 8, 2023 at 6:45 PM
    David Glidden on the view of representation in Hellenistic thought (relevant to Epicurean epistemology and anticipations).
    • 206 Downloads

  2. Epicurean Prolepsis - David Glidden

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 8:00 PM
    Excellent article on Epicurean Prolepsis, arguing that both the account of Cicero and of Diogenes Laertius give distorted views of preconceptions.
    • 214 Downloads

  3. Method and Evidence - Epicurean Proconceptions - Morel - Konstan

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 7:55 PM
    Morel and Konstan paper on Preconceptions
    • 135 Downloads

  4. Norman DeWitt - "Epicurus - All Sensations Are True"

    • Cassius
    • December 29, 2022 at 12:23 PM
    DeWitt's interpretation of the "all sensations are true" controversy.
    • 140 Downloads

  5. Morel - "Method and Evidence: On Epicurean Preconception"

    • Cassius
    • June 25, 2021 at 3:52 PM
    Article on Epicurean preconceptions
    • 245 Downloads

  6. "Epicurean Kinetics" by Norman DeWitt

    • Cassius
    • April 17, 2020 at 6:33 AM
    This article is an analysis of a part of the Letter to Herodotus on motion, but it is really directed toward challenging existing views of the Epicurean "Canon of Truth"
    • 220 Downloads

  7. David Sedley - Sextus Empiricus And The Atomist Criterion of Truth

    • Cassius
    • July 1, 2019 at 5:17 PM
    David Sedley - Sextus Empiricus And The Atomist Criterion of Truth
    • 213 Downloads

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