The volume contains papers that were read at the Third International Conferenbce on Greek Philosophy at Pythagorion, Samos, in August, 1991, on the topic of Pythagorean Philosophy. The topics discuss a wide range of issues, including, the structure and development of the Pythagorean community, the Pythagorean bios or way of life, Orphism and its realtion to Pythagoreanism, Pythagoreanism and purification, Pythagorean philosophy and astronomy, mathematics, and psychology, Pythagoreanism and its relation to Eleatic, Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy, as well as the philosophy of Philolaus.

CONTENTS OF THE VOLUME

W. Emmanuel Abraham,

Did the Pythagoreans use recursive definitions and functions?

Spyrodimos Anemoyannis-Sinanidis,

Some remarks on the term peperasmenon.

John P. Anton,

The Pythagorean way of life: morality and religion

John Bigelow,

The a priori which is fallible

Konstantine Boudouris,

The Pythagorean community: creation, development and downfall

E. Bourodimos,

The mathematics of music as number and harmony of reality and being

Bruno Centrone,

The theory of principles in the pseudopythagorica

Alexander Dobrochotov,

The thesis soma-sema and its philosophical implications

Kyoko Kusayama,

Pythagoreanism in Plato's cosmology

Peter Lautner,

Pythagorean and Aristotelian elements in the theories of perception in the later Athenian commentators

Maria Papathanassiou,

The influence of Pythagorean philosophy on the development of mathematical astronomy

Apostolos Pierris,

Origin and nature of early Pythagorean cosmogony

Richard Purtill,

Pythagorean persons

Thomas M. Robinson,

The Pythagorean way of life

Thomas M. Robinson,

Pythagoreans and Plato

Samuel Scolnicov,

Pythagoras and Plato's Parmenides

Teruo Suzuki,

Philolaus: epistemologist or ontologist?

Harold Tarrant,

Moderatus and the Neopythagorean Parmenides

Hideya Yamakawa,

Zeno is pythagorizing

Leonid Zhmud,

Mathematici and acusmatici in the Pythagorean school