This set of previously published essays-several of them now expanded and revised-offers a
sustained analysis of conceptual connections between (i) the metaphysics and epistemology of
Parmenides and (ii) corresponding themes in the philosophies of other pre-Socratics. The book's
central part explores how the early philosophers of Greece became progressively sensitized to
the importance of such concepts as form type structure arrangement. This developed in large
measure because such concepts importing as they do plurality and differentiation are
inherently problematic for Parmenides. The book's central part may thus be read as an account
of the discovery of Form in early Greek philosophy.
