This course meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. and is taught by Andrew Smith, PhD. Pre-Socratic Philosophy (PHIL 481.001 12239) An in-depth seminar on themes and thinkers of the era of ...

but his interests rapidly turned to ancient philosophy. His doctoral thesis was on pre-Socratic atomism. He was a research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, before being appointed to a ...

Democritus of Abdera was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for developing the atomic theory of the universe. While he has become known in the history of philosophy as the "Laughing ...