What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9780367361402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Stephen Hetherington; Nicholas D. Smith

Opis

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.

Recenzje

CHOICE 'Highly Recommended':
"Students taking historically oriented philosophy courses frequently say they do not see how figures such as Plato and Aristotle matter to current philosophical problems. In the same spirit, contemporary epistemologists rarely refer back to the ancients for help with or insight into current issues. [Volume editors] Hetherington and Smith, both prolific authors, attempt to rectify this and show that both contemporary epistemology and ancient philosophy (specifically, ancient Greek epistemology) can develop new lines of thought and solve pressing problems by looking to the other. As one might expect, Plato and Aristotle dominate the collection (with seven and three essays, respectively), but there are also insightful essays on the Academics, Pyrrhonian skepticism, and understanding. Among the contemporary issues addressed are know-how, understanding, conceptions of knowledge, virtue epistemology, skepticism, and the so-called swamping problem. Revealing the value of the epistemology of ancient Greece, this volume is an ideal resource for courses in both ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary epistemology. Summing up: Highly recommended."
--J. McBain, in CHOICE

Spis treści

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