Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus

ISBN-13: 9780190946302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 348 str.

Katja Maria Vogt; Justin Vlasits

Opis

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity, providing a model of skeptical philosophy that remains significant to this day. This volume collects essays discussing Sextus's influence in the history of modern philosophy as well as contemporary engagements with Sextus's version of Pyrrhonian skepticism.

O autorze

Katja Maria Vogt is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She specializes in ancient philosophy, ethics, and normative epistemology. In her books and papers, she focuses on questions that figure both in ancient and in contemporary discussions: What are values? What kind of values are knowledge and truth? What does it mean to want one's life to go well? Justin Vlasits is Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen. He obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and specializes in ancient philosophy as well as contemporary epistemology and logic. In his research, he is particularly interested in questions about inquiry, knowledge, and method from both historical and contemporary perspectives.