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How Nothing Can Be Something: The Stoic Theory of Void

Vanessa de Harven

Ancient Philosophy 35 (2):405-429 (2015)

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Rational Impressions and the Stoic Philosophy of Mind.Vanessa de Harven - 2017 - In John Sisko (ed.), in History of Philosophy of Mind: Pre-Socratics to Augustine. Acumen Publishing. pp. 215-35.details This paper seeks to elucidate the distinctive nature of the rational impression on its own terms, asking precisely what it means for the Stoics to define logikē phantasia as an impression whose content is expressible in language. I argue first that impression, generically, is direct and reflexive awareness of the world, the way animals get information about their surroundings. Then, that the rational impression, specifically, is inherently conceptual, inferential, and linguistic, i.e. thick with propositional content, the way humans receive incoming (...) Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Miscellaneous in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy: Topics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Chrysippus in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Classical Greek Philosophy, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Hellenistic and Later Ancient Philosophy, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Philosophy of Mind Stoics, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Stoics: Epistemology in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy The Old Stoa in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Zeno of Citium in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
The Metaphysics of Stoic Corporealism.Vanessa de Harven - 2022 - Apeiron 55 (2):219-245.details The Stoics are famously committed to the thesis that only bodies are, and for this reason they are rightly called “corporealists.” They are also famously compared to Plato’s earthborn Giants in the Sophist, and rightly so given their steadfast commitment to body as being. But the Stoics also notoriously turn the tables on Plato and coopt his “dunamis proposal” that being is whatever can act or be acted upon to underwrite their commitment to body rather than shrink from it as (...) M&E, Misc Stoics, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Stoics: Metaphysics and Physics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (5 more) Export citation Bookmark
The Resistance to Stoic Blending.Vanessa de Harven - 2018 - Rhizomata 6 (1):1-23.details This paper rehabilitates the Stoic conception of blending from the ground up, by freeing the Stoic conception of body from three interpretive presuppositions. First, the twin hylomorphic presuppositions that where there is body there is matter, and that where there is reason or quality there is an incorporeal. Then, the atomistic presupposition that body is absolutely full and rigid, and the attendant notion that resistance (antitupia) must be ricochet. I argue that once we clear away these presuppositions about body, the (...) Stoics: Metaphysics and Physics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (4 more) Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
In Defense of the Possibilism–Actualism Distinction.Christopher Menzel - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (7):1971-1997.details In Modal Logic as Metaphysics, Timothy Williamson claims that the possibilism-actualism (P-A) distinction is badly muddled. In its place, he introduces a necessitism-contingentism (N-C) distinction that he claims is free of the confusions that purportedly plague the P-A distinction. In this paper I argue first that the P-A distinction, properly understood, is historically well-grounded and entirely coherent. I then look at the two arguments Williamson levels at the P-A distinction and find them wanting and show, moreover, that, when the N-C (...) Actualism and Possibilism in Metaphysics Essentialism and Quantified Modal Logic in Metaphysics Necessitism and Contingentism in Metaphysics Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
Something Stoic in the Sophist.Vanessa de Harven - forthcoming - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 63.details The Stoics have often been compared to the earthborn Giants in the Battle of Gods and Giants in Plato’s Sophist, but with diverging opinions about the lessons they drew in reaction to Plato. At issue are questions about what in the Sophist the Stoics were reacting to, how the Stoics are like and unlike the Giants, the status of being for the Stoics, and the extent to which they were Platonizing with their incorporeals. With these open questions in mind, I (...) Plato, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Stoics, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download Export citation Bookmark
Stoicism.Dirk Baltzly - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period. The name derives from the porch (stoa poikilê) in the Agora at Athens decorated with mural paintings, where the members of the school congregated, and their lectures were held. Unlike ‘epicurean,’ the sense of the English adjective ‘stoical’ is not utterly misleading with regard to its philosophical origins. The Stoics did, in fact, hold that emotions like fear or envy (or impassioned sexual attachments, or passionate love of anything (...) Stoics, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download Export citation Bookmark 25 citations

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