Some of the materials I have listed here are supposed to be available on-line. If you try to access them and find they are not there, let me know as soon as possible.

1. A "journal," in the sense in which the term is used in academic research, is a periodical: a publication that comes out one or more times a year to present short pieces (articles) of research by scholars. To see which journals have issues available to GMU electronically, go to the GMU Library main page, http://library.gmu.edu. Click on "e-journals" (middle of the right side of the page) and follow instructions from there.

2. Two databases that will be very useful for this class are JSTOR and Project Muse. Also somewhat useful are Expanded Academic ASAP and Infotrac Onefile. Many articles I have listed here can be found on one or the other of these databases, as noted. To reach them, go to the GMU Library main page, http://library.gmu.edu. Under the heading Databases, click on Alphabetical List. Then click on J for JSTOR, P for Project Muse, etc. Scroll down to what you want and follow instructions. If you're trying to log onto those databases from off-campus, you will be asked to enter your ID number. (That should not happen on-campus.) Your ID number will be found on your GMU ID card; it may be the bar code number or the "G number," depending on how you enter the library database system.
 

1. Electronic reserves are not the same thing as electronic journals. Electronic reserves are single periodical articles that I have given to the library to scan and place on their e-reserve web site. I have done this when the GMU library does not have a print copy of the periodical in the stacks and the periodical is not already available electronically via JSTOR or Project Muse.

2. To find the e-reserves for PHIL 301, go to http://library.gmu.edu and click on e-reserves.

3. Then click on the magnifying glass icon or the text Search electronic reserves.

4. Using the drop-down box marked Instructor, select Cherubin. Select any section of PHIL 301.

5. Enter the password, which I will give you in class. (I'm not supposed to post the password on this page because use of these reserve readings is supposed to be restricted to my classes.)

6. Click submit to view the list of items on e-reserve for the course.

7. To view an article, click on the PDF button next to the title. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the articles. All computers in the Fenwick and Johnson Center Libraries have Acrobat Reader installed. If you're trying to access the articles and don't have Acrobat Reader where you are, you can download it - for free - from the page that lists the articles.)
 

1. Christos Evangeliou, When Greece Met Africa. Binghamton, NY: Institute for Global Cultural Studies, 1994. On e-reserve. Optional.

2. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, "Legends of the Greek Lawgivers." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 19 (1978): 199-209. On e-reserve. Optional. 

3. Gerard Naddaf, The Greek Concept of Nature. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. Optional. Available in Fenwick Library.
 

1. Thomas Worthen, "Herodotos' Report on Thales' Eclipse," on-line article in Electronic Antiquity: Communicating the Classics, vol. 3 no. 7, May 1977 . Optional . (Clicking on the title will take you to the article.)

2. Gerald Feinberg, "Physics and the Thales Problem." Journal of Philosophy 63, no. 1 (1966): 5-16. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

3. D.R. Dicks, "Thales." Classical Quarterly 9 (1959): 294-309. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

4. Dmitri Panchenko, "Thales and the Origin of Theoretical Reasoning." Configurations 1 (1993): 387-414. Available on-line through Project Muse. Optional.

5. S.H. Rosen, "Thales." Arion 1 (1962): 48-64. On e-reserve. Optional.
 

1. "Anaximander's Columns Page" . Required (really short). (Clicking on the title will take you to the reading.)

2. Aryeh Finkelberg, "Anaximander's Conception of the Apeiron." Phronesis 38 (1993): 229-256. Available in Fenwick Library, Periodicals section. Optional.

3. Gerard Naddaf, "On the Origin of Anaximander's Cosmological Model." Journal of the History of Ideas 59 (1998): 1-28. Available in Fenwick Library, Periodicals section. Also available on-line through Project Muse. Recommended but not required.

4. Dirk Couprie, "The Visualization of Anaximander's Astronomy." Apeiron 28 (1995): 159-182. Available in Fenwick Library, Periodicals section. Recommended but not required.

5. Dirk Couprie, "Anaximander's Discovery of Space." In A. Preus, ed., Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI: Before Plato. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Optional. (This book is not yet in Fenwick Library, but you can request it through Interlibrary Loan or order it through Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc.)

6. Robert Hahn, Anaximander and the Architects. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Optional. A great resource if you're interested in Anaximander; Greek, Egyptian, Near Eastern, or North African technology; archeology; etc.

7. Dirk Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf, Anaximander in Context. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003. Optional.

8. Joyce Engmann, "Cosmic Justice in Anaximander." Phronesis 36 (1991): 1-25. On e-reserve. Optional.
 

1. Charles Kahn, Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

2. Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.
 

1. Charles Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.
 

1. "Notes on the Eleatics (Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus)." Required. (Clicking on the title will take you to the reading.)
1a. Another translation of the fragments of Parmenides. Required. (Clicking on the title will take you to the reading.)

2. Patricia Curd, "Parmenidean Monism." Phronesis 36 (1991): 241-264. On e-reserve. Optional.

3. Malcolm Schofield, "Did Parmenides Discover Eternity?" Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 52 (1970): 113-135. On e-reserve. Optional.

4. Arnold Hermann, To Think Like God. Parmenides Press, 2004. Optional.

5. N. Booth, "Did Melissus Believe in Incorporeal Being?" American Journal of Philology 79 (1958): 61-65. Available on-line through JSTOR.  Optional.

6. F.A. Shamsi, "A Note on Aristotle, Physics 239b5-7: What Exactly Was Zeno's Argument of the Arrow?" Ancient Philosophy 14 (1994): 51-72. In Periodicals Area of Fenwick. Optional.

7. Alba Papa-Grimaldi, "Why Mathematical Solutions of Zeno's Paradoxes Miss the Point." Review of Metaphysics 50 (1996): 299-314. In Periodicals Area of Fenwick. Also available on-line through Expanded Academic ASAP and through Infotrac Onefile. Optional.
 
 

1. "Notes on Anaxagoras and Philolaus." Required. (Clicking on the title will take you to the reading.)

2. Carl Huffman, Philolaus of Croton. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press, 1993. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

3. Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

4. Carl Huffman, "The Role of Number in Philolaus' Philosophy." Phronesis 33 (1988): 1-30. On e-reserve. Optional.

5. J.H. Lesher, "Mind's Knowledge and Powers of Control in Anaxagoras DK B12." Phronesis 40 (1995): 125-142. In Periodicals Area of Fenwick. Optional.

6. Ava Chitwood, "The Death of Empedocles." American Journal of Philology 107 (1986): 175-191. In Periodicals Area of Fenwick. Also available on-line through JSTOR. Recommended.
 

1. G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers, 2d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

2. Jonathan Barnes, The Presocratic Philosophers, revised ed. New York and London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. On print reserve at JC Library. Optional.

3. Christos Evangeliou, When Greece Met Africa. SUNY Papers on Ancient Greek and Islamic Philosophy V, 1994. On e-reserve. Optional.

4. Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, "Legends of the Greek Lawgivers." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 19 (1978): 199-209. On e-reserve. Optional.

5. Aryeh Finkelberg, "On the History of the Greek KOSMOS." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 98 (1998): 103-136. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

6. M.L. West, "Three Presocratic Cosmologies." Classical Quarterly 13 (1963): 154-176. Available on-line through JSTOR. Optional.

7. R. Martin, "The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom." Pages 198-127 in Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. In Fenwick Library.
 

1. Michael Davis, "Socrates' Pre-Socratism." Review of Metaphysics 33 (1980): pages 559-577. This journal volume is at the Arlington Campus library; you can request it through inter-campus lending via the main library page. Recommended but not required.

2. James Arieti, "A Dramatic Interpretation of Plato's Phaedo." Illinois Classical Studies 11 (1986): 129-142. On e-reserve. Recommended.

3. Diskin Clay, "Plato's First Words." Yale Classical Studies 29 (1992): 113-129. On e-reserve. Optional.

4. Marlo Lewis, "An Interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro: Part One." Interpretation 12 (1984): 225-259. On e-reserve. Recommended.

5. ______. "An Interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro: Part Two." Interpretation 13 (1985): 33-65. On e-reserve. Recommended.

6. "Notes on Plato's Euthyphro." Required. (Clicking on the title will take you to the reading.)

7. Charles Griswold, "E Pluribus Unum? On the Platonic 'Corpus.'" Ancient Philosophy 19 (1999): 361-397. In Periodicals Area of Fenwick. Highly recommended that you at least skim this.
 
 

1. Your primary text can be found by following this link and clicking on Book I. This translation is by the great Aristotle scholar W.D. Ross. Required.

2. Here are some notes I have prepared on Metaphysics Book I, Chapters 1-2. Required.
 
 

Note: This page is still very much under construction. I will update the page regularly as I find out which items I may place on reserve, and what form (electronic, print) they will have.