Stephen (Hrsg.) Hetherington
What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology
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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 p…
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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.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Smith, Nicholas D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-00-069126-9
- EAN: 9781000691269
- Produktnummer: 31765499
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 250 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 38'050 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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).
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