Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Antiquity and Late Reception: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1

Francesca Masi is associate professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice. Her main research areas are ontology, physics, psychology, and ethics in classical and Hellenistic philosophy. She is the author of several studies on Epicurus and Epicureanism.
>Pierre-Marie Morel is professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has translated Epicurus and Diogenes of Oinoanda into French. He is also the author of several books and studies on ancient philosophy.
Francesco Verde is associate professor of the history of ancient philosophy at Sapienza University in Rome. His main research areas are Epicureanism and Aristotelianism of the Hellenistic age.

Introduction
Francesca Masi, Pierre-Marie Morel and Francesco Verde
Thinking or Speaking: The Paradoxes of the Epicurean Theory of Language
Julie Giovacchini
Language Theory, Scientific Terminology, and Linguistic Controversies in Epicurus¿ On Nature
Francesca Masi
Epicurus and His Meteorological Lexicon in the Letter to Pythocles: Some Remarks
Dino De Sanctis
The Fragments of Epicurus¿ Letters: Scientific Debates and New Perspectives
Margherita Erbì
Lucretius¿ Epistemological Language
Chiara Rover
Medicine and Responsibility: Hippocratic and Democritean Influences on Epicurus¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ Book XXV?
Enrico Piergiacomi
Medicine and Atomism: Asclepiades of Bithynia and Epicurean Science
David Leith
Patterns of Reception of Epicureanism in Galen¿s Writings
Vincenzo Damiani Gravity and the Shape and Location of the Earth
David Konstan
The Method of Multiple Explanations Revisited
Voula Tsouna
The Explanation of Meteorological Phenomena in the Philosophical Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda
Jürgen Hammerstaedt
Gassendi¿s Interpretation of Epicurus¿ Method of Multiple Explanations: Between Scepticism and Probabilism
Frederik Bakker
Observation, Probabilism, and Humanist Methods of History in Pierre Gassendi¿s Meteorology
Craig Martin
About the contributors
Index of Ancient Names
Index of Modern Names