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________ (1974). “Empedocles’s cosmic cycle in the sixties.” In Mourelatos (1974): 397-425.
________ (1974, 1986). Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics. 2d edition. Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press.
________, ed. (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Long, A.A. and D.N. Sedley (1987). The Hellenistic Philosophers. Cambridge. A collection of texts with wellinformed
discussion and an extensive bibliography.
Long, H.S. (1949). “The unity of Empedokles’s thought.” American Journal of Philology: 142-158.
Lorenz, Hendrik (2008). “Plato on the Soul.” In Gail Fine (2008).
________ (2009). “Ancient Theories of the Soul.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/.
Lovibond, Sabina (1991). “Plato’s Theory of Mind.” In Everson (1991): 35–55.
Lukes, S. (1970). “Some problems about rationality.” In Wilson (1970), 194-213. Defends the rationality of
the thought of “primitive” men.
McCabe (MacKenzie), Mary (1987). “The moving posset stands still: Heraclitus fr. 125.” American Journal of
Philology 542-555.
McKim, Richard (1988). “Shame and truth in Plato’s Gorgias.” In Griswold (1988): 34-48.
McKirahan, Voula Tsouna (1994). “The Socratic origins of the Cynics and Cyrenaics.” In Vander Waerdt
(1994).
McMullin, Ernan (1984). “The goals of natural science,” Presidential Address in the Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Association 58 no. 1 37-64. Argues that natural science aims, at least in the first instance,
to discover a hidden reality that explains observations, not merely to discover regularities.
Malinowski, Bronislaw (1948). Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday,
1954. (Free Press, 1948) The classic proponent among anthropologists of “functionalism”, the view
that myths and religious doctrines are to be understood in terms of the functions they perform in
society rather than as theoretical accounts intended to be literally true.
Mandelbaum, Maurice (1976). “On the historiography of philosophy.” Philosophy Research Archives 2.
Mansfield, Jaap (1999). “Sources.” Chapter 2 in A. A. Long (1999), 22–44. A review of the sources for pre-
Socratic philosophy, sketching and documenting recent criticism of Diels’s work.
Marcus Aurelius. A.S.L. Farquharson (Oxford: 1944), The best translation.
Mates, Benson (1953). Stoic Logic. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Thorough
coverage, containing translations of many texts.
Matson, Wallace I (1980). “Parmenides Unbound.” Philosophical Inquiry (Athens) 2 no. 1: 345–360. Argues
that Parmenides did not reject the "Way of Seeming" as false, and that he thought reality to be space,
which is capable of thought.
________ (2000 - 2 nd ed; 1987). A New History of Philosophy. 2 vols. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
________ (2001). “Zeno Moves!” In Preuss (2001), 87–108.
Matthews, Gareth (1991). “Container metaphysics according to Aristotle’s Greek commentators.” In Canadian
Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 17, Aristotle and his Medieval Interpreters, ed. Richard Bosley
and Martin Tweedale, 7–24.
________ (2008). “The epistemology and metaphysics of Socrates,” in Fine (2008).
Meinwald, Constance Chu. (1991). Plato's Parmenides. New York: Oxford University Press.
________ (1992). “Good-bye to the Third Man.” In Kraut, R. (1992): 365-396.
________ (2002). “Plato's Pythagoreanism.” Ancient Philosophy 22.1: 87-101.
Minar, Edwin L. (1942). Early Pythagorean Politics in Practice and Theory. Baltimore: Waverly Press.
Moline, John (1981). Plato’s Theory of Understanding. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.