What The Ancients Offer To Contemporary Epistemology

Author : Stephen Hetherington,Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000691566

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What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology by Stephen Hetherington,Nicholas D. Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521871396

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Ancient Epistemology by Lloyd P. Gerson Pdf

This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.

Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350446601

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Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy by Nicholas D. Smith Pdf

To know epistemology's history is to know better what contemporary epistemology could be and perhaps should be – and what it need not be and perhaps ought not to be. Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy presents part of the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Covering the Presocratics, the Sophists, the Soics, and more, along with treatments of knowledge offered by Socrates and Plato, this volume offers insights into the vast sweep of ways in which Ancient philosophers sought to understand knowledge. It focuses on thinkers from early in the Archaic Age of Greece through the work of Roman philosophers in the first centuries BCE and CE. Introducing theories from parts of the ancient world, the fount of all Western epistemology, this collection reveals the origin and evolution of the first theories of knowledge.

Author : Blake Roeber,Ernest Sosa,Matthias Steup,John Turri
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119755456

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Contemporary Debates in Epistemology by Blake Roeber,Ernest Sosa,Matthias Steup,John Turri Pdf

The perfect introduction to contemporary epistemology, completely overhauled for its third edition In Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, pairs of specially commissioned essays defend opposing views on some of today’s most compelling epistemological issues and problems. Offering a unique blend of accessibility and originality, this timely volume brings together fresh debates on hotly contested issues to provide readers with the opportunity to engage in comparative analysis of constantly changing and developing epistemological concepts. Now in its third edition, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology features up-to-date coverage of the latest developments in the field. Entirely new essays examine questions of epistemic normativity and knowledge, the relationship between belief and credence, the possibility of internalist epistemology, epistemic instrumentalism, norms of assertion, the use of thought experiments in epistemology, and more. Presents a rigorous yet accessible introduction to the major topics in contemporary epistemology Contains head-to-head chapters offering forceful advocacy of opposing philosophical stances Focuses on core areas of epistemology Uses a lively debate format that sharply defines the issues and encourages further discussion All-new chapters provide fully updated coverage of new and emerging topics in epistemology Part of the Wiley-Blackwell Contemporary Debates in Philosophy series, Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Third Edition, remains an essential resource for advanced undergraduate philosophy majors, graduate students in philosophy, and epistemologists who want to keep current with contemporary epistemological debates.

Author : Jessica Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198867401

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Plato's Epistemology by Jessica Moss Pdf

Plato's Epistemology presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Moss argues, against the grain of much modern scholarship, that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.

Author : Caleb Cohoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108485838

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Aristotle's On the Soul by Caleb Cohoe Pdf

Thirteen newly-commissioned essays that deepen our understanding of Aristotle's key concepts, including living, form, reason, and capacity.

Author : Tom Angier,Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350104341

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Skill in Ancient Ethics by Tom Angier,Lisa Raphals Pdf

Illustrating the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne, the Stoics' 'art of life' and ancient Chinese ethics, this collection shows how skill has been an ethical touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought. Divided into six sections – on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Mencius and Xunzi, the Mohists and Zhuangzi, and comparative perspectives – world-leading philosophers explore the significance of skill according to traditional figures, as well as lesser-known philosophers such as Carneades and Antipater, and texts such as the Zhuangzi. In doing so, the seventeen contributors illustrate how skill, expertise and 'know how' are essential to and foundational within ancient ethical thought. As the first collection to foreground skill as central to ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese ethics, this is an essential resource for anyone interested in the value of cross-cultural philosophy today.

Author : Tony Cheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009243797

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Transcendental Epistemology by Tony Cheng Pdf

Transcendental arguments were prominent in Western philosophy, German idealism, phenomenological tradition, and P. F. Strawson's thinking. They have fallen out of fashion because of their associations with transcendental idealism and verificationism. They are still invoked by important figures in the analytic tradition even if the very same tradition has cast doubt on such arguments. The nature of transcendental arguments remains unclear: Are they supposed to be deductive? Are they synthetic or analytic? If they are a priori, how are they supposed to be about the empirical world? What are their relations to necessity, conceivability, and essence? This Element takes up the challenge of elucidating the nature of transcendental arguments, embedded in the wider context of transcendental epistemology. It will be argued that the key premise 'transcendental conditional' is synthetic, necessary, and a posteriori.

Author : J. Adam Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009079877

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Stratified Virtue Epistemology by J. Adam Carter Pdf

This accessible Element defends version of virtue epistemology shown to have all-things-considered advantages over other views on the market. The view is unorthodox, in that it incorporates Sosa's animal/reflective knowledge distinction, which has thus far had few takers. The author shows why embracing a multi-tiered framework is not a liability within virtue epistemology but instead affords it an edge not attainable otherwise. The particular account of knowledge goes beyond Sosa's own view by introducing and incorporating several theoretical innovations (regarding both basing and risk, as well as the introduction of multiple species of reflective knowledge) which are aimed at revamping how we think about 'high-grade' knowledge, how we attain it, and what it demands of us. The result is a new and improved stratified virtue epistemology that can hold up against scrutiny.

Author : Katja Maria Vogt,Justin Vlasits
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190946326

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Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus by Katja Maria Vogt,Justin Vlasits Pdf

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity. His writings contain the most subtle and detailed versions of the ancient skeptical arguments known as Pyrrhonism, adding up to a distinctive philosophical approach. Instead of viewing philosophy as valuable because of the answers it gives to important questions, Sextus considered the search for answers itself to be fundamental and offered a philosophy centered on inquiry. Assuming the point of view of an active inquirer, Sextus developed arguments concerning conflicting appearances, infinite regress in argument, dogmatic assertion of premises that are insufficiently justified, and many other ideas that fascinated later philosophers of knowledge across the centuries. He provided a unique perspective on topics of enduring relevance such as perception, language, logical consequence, belief, ignorance, disagreement, and induction. While Sextus's importance to epistemology was appreciated by early modern and modern philosophers, he is underrepresented in contemporary discussions. In order to put Sextus back in the center of epistemology, these essays discuss his influence in the history of modern philosophy as well as contemporary engagements with Sextus's version of Pyrrhonian skepticism. The contributors investigate epistemology after Sextus, addressing four core themes of Sextus's skepticism: appearances and perception, the structure of justification and proof, belief and ignorance, and ethics and action. The arguments presented here bridge the divide between contemporary and ancient debates about knowledge and skepticism and will appeal to philosophers interested in epistemology and philosophy of mind as well as those interested in ancient philosophy and the history of philosophy more generally.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192885340

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004525474

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Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Living Skepticism challenges the philosophical orthodoxy that dismisses skepticism as an intellectual embarrassment or overreaction. In this original collection of adventurous and engaging papers, skepticism is demonstrated to be true or insightful enough to form the core of an enlightened philosophy.

Author : Rodrigo Borges,Ian Schnee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000897616

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Illuminating Errors by Rodrigo Borges,Ian Schnee Pdf

This is the first collection of essays exclusively devoted to knowledge from non-knowledge and related issues. It features original contributions from some of the most prominent and up-and-coming scholars working in contemporary epistemology. There is a nascent literature in epistemology about the possibility of inferential knowledge based on premises that are, for one reason or another, not known. The essays in this book explore if and how epistemology can accommodate cases where knowledge is generated from something other than knowledge. Can reasoning from false beliefs generate knowledge? Can reasoning from unjustified beliefs generate knowledge? Can reasoning from gettiered beliefs generate knowledge? Can reasoning from propositions one does not even believe generate knowledge? The contributors to this book tackle these and other questions head-on. Together, they advance the debate about knowledge from non-knowledge in novel and interesting directions. Illuminating Errors will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology and philosophy of mind.

Author : René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009035965

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The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation by René van Woudenberg Pdf

Reading and textual interpretation are ordinary human activities, performed inside as well as outside academia, but precisely how they function as unique sources of knowledge is not well understood. In this book, René van Woudenberg explores the nature of reading and how it is distinct from perception and (attending to) testimony, which are two widely acknowledged knowledge sources. After distinguishing seven accounts of interpretation, van Woudenberg discusses the question of whether all reading inevitably involves interpretation, and shows that although reading and interpretation often go together, they are distinct activities. He goes on to argue that both reading and interpretation can be paths to realistically conceived truth, and explains the conditions under which we are justified in believing that they do indeed lead us to the truth. Along the way, he offers clear and novel analyses of reading, meaning, interpretation, and interpretative knowledge.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350344754

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Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology by Stephen Hetherington Pdf

Philosophy has long embraced epistemology as one of its central elements. What is knowledge? How do we gain it? Can we gain it? Or do we always deceive ourselves when thinking that we have knowledge? Are we too deeply fallible ever to know something? For centuries, these questions have helped to define and motivate epistemological research. This volume engages strikingly with them, offering some unusual answers. Stephen Hetherington's prominent career within epistemology has been a series of bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together some elements of his unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material displaying and extending some of his highly original approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem. Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington's thinking, Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology presents his distinctive perspective on some of philosophy's central questions about knowledge – an inviting blend of forensic detail and 'big picture' proposals.