Ancient Greek Philosophy

If we trust Aristotle’s account of the history of (metaphysical) philosophy, the first philosopher was Thales of Miletus . He’s the one who started “this sort” of philosophy, Aristotle says in the third chapter of his Metaphysics , not philosophy proper ( Metaphysics 983b20).   Stereotyped as an absent-minded philosopher, Plato depicts him falling into a well while staring up at the stars ( Theaetetus  174a). Aristotle’s history doesn’t help over-turn the narrative of philos

These are the top 15 journals in ancient philosophy. With links to the actual contents inside. Academic philosophy.

These are 10 essential recent texts on Plato’s epistemology, or theory of knowledge.