Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

1. Lost words, forgotten worlds ;
2. Puzzles about first principles ;
3. Zeno's tortoise ;
4. Reality and appearance: more adventures in Metaphysics ;
5. Heraclitus ;
6. Pythagoras and other mysteries ;
7. Spin doctors of the fifth century ; Epilogue: a story about origins

Catherine Osborne is lecturer in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She recently moved from her position as Reader in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies at the University of Liverpool, and was previously a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her publications include Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy, and Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love , as well as the chapter onHeraclitus in the Routledge History of Philosophy, volume 1 and articles on a wide range of issues in Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Early Christian period.