History of Ancient Philosophy

Notes for understanding what the philosophers were thinking


A History of Ancient Philosophy
A set of notes about how Ancient philosophy came to exist and developed in the way it did.

An Investigation into the Origin of the Notion of Free Will
A set of notes about Michael Frede's argument (in his posthumously published Sather Lectures) that no one had notions of the will or of free will before the late Stoics.

Hellenistic Epistemology
A set of notes about the Academic response to Stoic epistemology.



These notes are not perfect. They are works in progress and are not peer-reviewed, but they have at least two virtues. They are not behind a paywall, and they stay clear of the specialist debates that dominate in journals and books from Academic publishers.