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Title
What the ancients offer to contemporary epistemology
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Hetherington, Stephen Cade (editor)
Smith, Nicholas D., 1949- (contributor)
Subject
(BISACSH)
Knowledge, Theory of (LCSH)
Philosophy, Ancient (LCSH)
Théorie de la connaissance (RVM)
Philosophie ancienne (RVM)
epistemology (AAT)
PHILOSOPHY--General (BISACSH)
Knowledge, Theory of
Philosophy, Ancient
Language
English (eng)
Classification
LCC: BD161 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 121 full (Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
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index (index)
Content
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Summary
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.
Table Of 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
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