Gail Fine

Essays in Ancient Epistemology

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume draws together notable work on ancient epistemology by a leading figure in the field. In these thirteen essays Gail Fine discusses knowledge, belief, subjectivity, and scepticism in Plato, Aristotle, and the Pyrrhonian sceptics, relating ancient discussions of these topics to more recent ones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780198746768
• ISBN-10: 0198746768
• Artikelnr.: 60977543

Autorenporträt

Gail Fine received her BA from the University of Michigan in 1971, and her PhD from Harvard University in 1975. She also holds an MA from Oxford University (2009). She taught at Cornell University from 1975-2017; and was a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford from 2007-2019. She is now Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Cornell University, and Senior Research Fellow Emerita at Merton College. Since 2007, she has been a Visiting Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* Part I: Plato and [Plato]
* 2: Does Socrates Claim to Know that He Knows Nothing?
* 3: Knowledge and True Belief in the Meno
* 4: The 'Two Worlds' Theory in the Phaedo
* 5: Epistêmê and Doxa, Knowledge and Belief, in the Phaedo
* 6: Recollection and Innatism in the Phaedo
* 7: Plato on the Grades of Perception: Theaetetus 184-186 and the
Phaedo
* 8: Meno's Paradox and the Sisyphus
* Part II: Aristotle
* 9: Aristotle on Knowledge
* 10: Aristotle's Two Worlds: Knowledge and Belief in Posterior
Analytics 1.33
* Part III: Sextus
* 11: Sceptical Dogmata: PH I 13
* 12: Descartes and Ancient Scepticism: Reheated Cabbage?
* 13: Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern
* 14: Sextus and External World Scepticism