Books by Daniel W. Graham
Aristotle's Two Systems
A study of the relationship between the so-called Organon and the scientific and metaphysical system of Aristotle, arguing that the Organon is not, as traditionally argued, a preliminary logical system, but an early version of Aristotle’s metaphysics, one that became obsolete when he introduced the distinction between matter and form.
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
Studies in Greek Philosophy by Gregory Vlastos
Vol. 1: The Presocratics
Vol. 2: Socrates, Plato, and their Tradition
(DWG editor)
A collection of important articles by one of the foremost scholars of ancient Greek philosophy, dealing with the Presocratics, Socrates, and Plato.
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995)
Aristotle: Physics Book VIII
(DWG translator and commentator)
A translation from the Greek and commentary on Aristotle’s treatise tracing the motion of the cosmos from the earth to the heavens, finding it source in the Unmoved Mover.
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999; Clarendon Aristotle Series)
Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos
(DWG co-editor with Victor Caston)
A collection of essays by students and colleagues of Alexander Mourelatos, celebrating the career of a leading scholar of ancient Greek philosophy. Essays by Stephen White, Michael Gagarin, Daniel W. Graham, Alexander Nehamas, R. J. Hankinson, Charles H. Kahn, Scott Austin, Herbert Granger, David Furley, André Laks, Patricia Curd, Jacques Brunschwig, Julia Annas, Sylvia Berryman, Paul Woodruff, Victor Caston, Owen Goldin, Carl Huffman, Jaap Mansfeld, Paul Thom, Sarah Broadie, and William Prior.
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002; London: Routledge, 2016)
Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy
A critique of the standard story of Presocratic philosophy, according to which the early Ionians’ theory of material monism, attacked by the school of Elea, is replaced by pluralistic theories—arguing that the early Ionians, too, are pluralists; Eleatic objections compelled later philosophers to replace changeable substances with fixed elements.
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006)
The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
(DWG co-editor with Patricia Curd)
A collection of up-to-date studies of Presocratic philosophy by leading scholars. Chapters by David T. Runia, Walter Burkert, Stephen A. White, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Daniel W. Graham, Richard D. McKirahan, Patricia Curd, Oliver Primavesi, Carl Huffman, David Sedley, André Laks, Michael Gagarin and Paul Woodruff, Philip van der Eijk, M. R. Wright, R. J. Hankinson, J. H. Lesher, T. M. Robinson, Michael Frede, and John Palmer.
(New York, Oxford University Press, 2008)
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics
Vol. 1: Cosmologists and Ontologists
Vol. 2: Sophists
(DWG translator and commentator)
The extant statements and reports of the Presocratic philosophers in Greek and Latin, with a new translation and brief commentary.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Science Before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy
A study of early Greek science arguing that, contrary to standard histories, the Presocratic philosophers not only speculated about scientific explanations, but made scientific breakthroughs that launched astronomy as an empirical science. For the first time, students of science recognized that phenomena of the heavens including the source of the moon's light and eclipses, had been correctly explained. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Ancient Philosophy: The Fundamentals
An introduction to the rich history of the Western intellectual tradition from its beginnings in the 6th century BC to its culmination in the 5th century AD, with a reader-friendly survey of philosophy in antiquity. The book explores developing conceptions of the world and people's place in it, inlcuding questions of knowledge, reality, and ethics, and shows how theories of ancient thinkers are relevant to today's world. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2020)