What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-36140-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hetherington, Stephen

Smith, Nicholas D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Ancient Epistemology’s Potential Significance for Contemporary Epistemology 1. Socrates' Version of the Opacity Objection 2. Knowledge-Minimalism: Reinterpreting the Meno on Knowledge and True Belief 3. Plato on Veritism and Value 4. Forms, Exemplars, and Plato 5. Is Plato’s Epistemology about Knowledge? 6. Plato’s Ideal Epistemology 7. Plato on Having a Logos (Theaetetus 201c–210a) 8. Transmitting Understanding and Know-How 9. Aristotle’s Disjunctivism 10. Aristotle’s Virtue Epistemology 11. Aristotle and Scepticism 12. Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Human Agency 13. Academic Justifications of Assent

Über Autor(innen)

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).