After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism

by Tom Rockmore

Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems--the relationship between thought and being--and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle.

In After Parmenides, Tom Rockmore takes us all the way back to the beginning of Western philosophy, when Parmenides asserted that thought and being are the same. This idea created a division between what the mind constructs as knowable entities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022679542X
• ISBN13: 9780226795423
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"