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with additional coverage of the Republic and later dialogues added.
________ (1999). “The theory of forms.” In Fine, ed. (1999) I ch. 5. Adapted from (1995) ch. 10.
Jaeger, Werner (1912). Studien zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Metaphysik des Aristoteles. Berlin. The opening
volume in the modern discussion of Aristotle’s philosophical development.
________ (1923). Aristoteles, Grundlegung einer Geschichte seiner Entwicklung. English translation as Aristotle:
Fundamentals of the History of his Development (Oxford: 1934; 2 nd ed. 1948).
________ (1947). The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers.
Jones, W.T. (1969-1970). “Philosophical disagreements and world views.” Proceedings and Addresses of the
American Philosophical Association 43: 24-42.
________ (1970). A History of Western Philosophy. Vol. 1: The Classical Mind. 2 nd edition. Harcourt Brace.
Kahn, Charles H. (1960). Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology.
________ (1966). “The Greek verb “be” and the concept of being.” Foundations of Language 2, 245-265.
________ (1974a). “Pythagorean philosophy before Plato.” In Mourelatos (1974), 161-85.
________ (1974b). “Religion and natural philosophy in Empedocles’s doctrine of the soul.” In Mourelatos
(1974): 426-456.
________ (1980). The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and
Commentary. Cambridge University Press.
________ (1981). “Some philosophical uses of “to be” in Plato.” Phronesis 26:105-134.
________ (1988). “Being in Parmenides and Plato.” La parola del passato 43: 237-261.
________ (2001). Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History. Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Karamanolis, George (2009). “Numenius.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward N.
Zalta. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/numenius).
Keeley, Lawrence (1996), War Before Civilization. Oxford.
Kekes, John (1980). The Nature of Philosophy. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield. I have taken a great deal from
this book, though I disagree with Kekes’s optimism regarding the possibility of finding a solid rational
defense for a world view, and often find his discussion and argumentation impossibly loose.
Kerferd, G.B. (1981a). The Sophistic Movement. Cambridge. Has become the standard treatment. The best
general work. Shows more philosophical sophistication than Guthrie (1962-1981).
________, ed. (1981b). The Sophists and their Legacy. Proceedings of the Fourth International Colloquium
of Ancient Greek Philosophy at Bad Homburg 1979, Hermes Einzelschriften. Weisbaden.
________ (1997). “The Sophists.” Ch. 7 in Taylor (1997), Routledge History of Philosophy: Vol. 1: From the
Beginnings to Plato.
Keyt, D. (1973). “Plato on Falsity.” In Exegesis and Argument, ed. E. Lee, A. Mourelatos, and R. Rorty, Assen:
285–305.
Kingsley, Peter (1994a). ‘Empedocles' Sun.” Classical Quarterly 44: 316-324.
________ (1994b). “Empedocles and his Interpreters: The Four-Element Doxography.” Phronesis 39: 235-254.
________ (1995). Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic. Oxford University Press.
________ (1999). In the Dark Places of Wisdom. The Golden Sufi Center. Inverness, California.
Kirk, G.S. (1954). Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments. Cambridge University Press. An outstanding study.
________ (1970). Myth. Its Meanings and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures. Cambridge University Press,
1970. An intelligent examination of theories of myth produced by anthropologists, and an application
of anthropological techniques of analysis to ancient Mesopotamian and classical Greek myth.
Sophisticated, judicious and insightful.
________ (1974). The Nature of Greek Myths. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press. A reconsideration of the
material in Myth, with some new analyses, but restricted to Greek mythology.