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David Sedley

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David Neil Sedley FBA (born 30 May 1947) is a British philosopher and historian of philosophy. [1]

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A. A. Long

Anthony Arthur Long FBA (born 17 August 1937) is a British and naturalised American classical scholar and Professor of Classics and Irving Stone Professor of Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Akademie

A German Academie is a school or college, trade school or another educational institution.

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Athenaeus of Attalia

Athenaeus of Attalia (1st century AD), was a physician, and the founder of the Pneumatic school of medicine.

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Catius

Catius (fl. c. 50s–40s BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, identified ethnically as an Insubrian Celt from Gallia Transpadana.

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Cratylus (dialogue)

Cratylus (Κρατύλος, Kratylos) is the name of a dialogue by Plato.

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De Natura Deorum

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman orator Cicero written in 45 BC.

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Dusios

In the Gaulish language, Dusios was a divine being among the continental Celts who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion.

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Epicureanism

Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC.

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Free will in antiquity

Free will in antiquity was not discussed in the same terms as used in the modern free will debates, but historians of the problem have speculated who exactly was first to take positions as determinist, libertarian, and compatibilist in antiquity.

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Gaius Cassius Longinus

Gaius Cassius Longinus (October 3, before 85 BC – October 3, 42 BC) was a Roman senator, a leading instigator of the plot to kill Julius Caesar, and the brother in-law of Marcus Junius Brutus.

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Gábor Betegh

Gábor Betegh (born June 20, 1968) is a Hungarian academic, specialising in ancient philosophy.

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Gisela Striker

Gisela Striker (born 1943) is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University.

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History of creationism

The history of creationism relates to the history of thought based on the premise that the natural universe had a beginning, and came into being supernaturally.

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Index of philosophy articles (D–H)

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Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy

The Laurence Professorship of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University was established in 1930 as one of the offices endowed by the bequest of Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence; it is the oldest chair of ancient philosophy in the world.

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List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1990s

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

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List of In Our Time programmes

In Our Time is a discussion programme on the history of ideas; it has been hosted since 1998 by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

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Meno

Meno (Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato.

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Michael Frede

Michael Frede (31 May 1940 – 11 August 2007) was a prominent scholar of ancient philosophy, described by The Telegraph as "one of the most important and adventurous scholars of ancient philosophy of recent times.".

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of ancient philosophy.

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Platonic Academy

The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία) was founded by Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) in ca.

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Robert Kane (philosopher)

Robert Hilary Kane (born 1938, Boston) is an American philosopher.

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Sedley

Sedley may refer to: Surname.

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Sexuality in ancient Rome

Sexuality in ancient Rome, and more broadly, sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome, are indicated by Roman art, literature and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such as erotic artifacts and architecture.

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Stoicism

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC.

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Teleological argument

The teleological or physico-theological argument, also known as the argument from design, or intelligent design argument is an argument for the existence of God or, more generally, for an intelligent creator based on perceived evidence of deliberate design in the natural world.

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Tim Whitmarsh

Tim Whitmarsh is a British classicist and the second A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.

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Timocrates of Lampsacus

Timocrates of Lampsacus (Τιμοκράτης) was a renegade Epicurean who made it his life's mission to spread slander about Epicurus' philosophy and way of life.

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True name

A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sedley

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