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Maykʻl Papazian - The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.3 488-490 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Michael Papazian Berry College Ricardo Salles. The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Pp. xxii +132. Cloth, $79.95. Stoic determinism has been the object of important work recently, most notably Susanne Bobzien's monumental work, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Ricardo Salles provides a fresh and distinct perspective. He challenges several points in Bobzien's work, so his book serves as a good complement to Bobzien's arguments. The first part of the book is an analysis of the Stoic arguments for determinism. The rest of the book..