What the ancients offer to contemporary epistemology / edited by Stephen Hetherington and Nicholas D. Smith.
| Other author | Hetherington, Stephen Cade. |
| Other author | Smith, Nicholas D., 1949- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Ancient Epistemology's Potential Significance for Contemporary Epistemology Stephen Hetherington and Nicholas D. Smith 1. The Socratic Version of the Opacity Objection R. Wolfe Randall and Nicholas D. Smith 2. Knowledge-Minimalism: Reinterpreting the Meno on Knowledge and True BeliefStephen Hetherington 3. Plato on Veritism and Value Russell E. Jones 4. Forms, Exemplars, and Plato Keith Lehrer 5. Is Plato's Epistemology about Knowledge? Jessica Moss 6. Plato's Ideal Epistemology Whitney Schwab 7. Plato on Having a Logos (Theaetetus 201c-210a) Hugh H. Benson 8. Transmitting Understanding and Know-How Stephen R. Grimm 9. Aristotle's Disjunctivism Rosemary Twomey 10. Aristotle's Virtue Epistemology David Bronstein 11. Aristotle and Scepticism Pierre Le Morvan 12. Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Human Agency Ernest Sosa 13. The Clitomachian and Philonian/Metrodorian Justifications of Academic Assent Thomas A. Blackson |
| Abstract | This book encourages renewed attention by contemporary epistemologists to an area most of them overlook: ancient philosophy. Readers are invited to revisit writings by Plato, Aristotle, Pyrrho, and others, and to ask what new insights might be gained from those philosophical ancestors. Are there ideas, questions, or lines of thought that were present in some ancient philosophy and that have subsequently been overlooked? Are there contemporary epistemological ideas, questions, or lines of thought that can be deepened by gazing back upon some ancient philosophy? The answers are 'yes' and 'yes', according to this book's 13 chapters, written by philosophers seeking to enrich contemporary epistemology through engaging with ancient epistemology. Key features: Blends ancient epistemology with contemporary epistemology, each reciprocally enriching each. Conceptually sensitive chapters by scholars of ancient epistemology. Historically sensitive chapters by scholars of contemporary epistemology. Clearly written chapters, guiding readers at once through central elements both of ancient and of contemporary epistemology. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Biographical note | Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia, and Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His publications include Epistemology's Paradox (1992), Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (2001), How to Know (2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (2016). Nicholas D. Smith is the James F. Miller Professor of Humanities in the Departments of Classics and Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His publications include Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic (2019), Knowledge (with Ian Evans) (2012), and Socratic Moral Psychology (with Thomas C. Brickhouse) (2010). |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed October 7, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 036736140X 9780367361402 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021761955 |
| ISBN | 9780429344138 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0429344139 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781000691269 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 1000691268 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 9781000691412 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | 1000691411 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | 9781000691566 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| ISBN | 100069156X (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.4324/9780429344138 |
| Stock number | 9780429344138 Taylor & Francis |
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