Alcmaeon’s Empirical Side: Unpublished Notes from the Vlastos-­Nachlass

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Christian Vassallo
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1 Language English
Pages 13 P. 167-179 File size 252 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2021-001010
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In Folder n. 7, Container 49 of the Vlastos-Nachlass (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin), an as-yet unpublished series of notes by Gregory Vlastos on Alcmaeon and his empirical method are preserved across two fascicles. After briefly contextualizing Vlastos’ remarks within the history of scholarship on Alcmaeon, this paper provides the first annotated reconstruction of the manuscript’s extant portion.

Keywords: Alcmaeon, Ancient Doxography, Presocratics, Science, Vlastos-Nachlass

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Christian Vassallo, Alcmaeon’s Empirical Side: Unpublished Notes from the Vlastos-­Nachlass in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2021, pp 167-179, DOI: 10.3280/SF2021-001010