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Andrew Gregory's welcome new book offers a much-needed challenge to the idea that early Greek philosophers - the Presocratic atomists in particular - deployed mechanistic explanations of the physical or biological processes they observed or postulated. -- Malcolm Schofield, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK The scope of the project is far from modest, and its substantive positions, which are clear, direct and well-evidenced, reward continued reflection. * The Classical Review *

Andrew Gregory's welcome new book offers a much-needed challenge to the idea that early Greek philosophers - the Presocratic atomists in particular - deployed mechanistic explanations of the physical or biological processes they observed or postulated. -- Malcolm Schofield, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK

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Andrew Gregory is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, UK. He is the author of many books on the science and philosophy of the ancient world, including Anaximander (Bloomsbury, 2016), The Presocratics and the Supernatural (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Ancient Greek Cosmogony (Bloomsbury, 2008).

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