“In To Think Like God, Hermann suggests that Parmenides’ poem develops a method of approaching certainty in any given field by eliminating contradiction from one’s evidence. The first part of the poem (the ‘Way of Truth’) applies this procedure to what Hermann calls the ‘naked IS’, as the limiting case of inquiry . . . The second part of the poem shows that certainty cannot be achieved within the ‘disjointed stimuli offered by sense-perception’ . . . . Hermann thus overcomes the difficulty encountered by commentators who read the Way of Truth as itself a secure cosmological account, and cannot explain why Parmenides goes on to give an avowedly misleading account as well. This is a fresh and stimulating study of the father of Eleaticism – and it would be interesting to see whether this construction of Parmenides could be made to work as a reaction to the modes of thought implicit in the cosmologies of his Ionic predecessors.”