Essays in ancient epistemology / Gail Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Gail, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Sextus.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Knowledge, Theory of--Greece--History.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 417 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I: Plato and [Plato]. Does Socrates clam to know that he knows nothing?

Knowledge and true belief in the Meno

The "two worlds" theory in the Phaedo

Epistêmê and Doxa, knowledge and belief, in the Phaedo

Recollection and innatism in the Phaedo

Plato on the grades of perception : Theaetetus 184-186 and the Phaedo

Meno's paradox and the Sisyphus

Part II: Aristotle. Aristotle on knowledge

Aristotle's two worlds : knowledge and belief in Posterior Analytics 1.33

Part III: Sextus. Skeptical Dogmata : Outlines of Pyrrhonism I 13

Subjectivity, ancient and modern : the Cyrenaics, Sextus, and Descartes

Descartes and ancient skepticism : reheated cabbage?

Sextus and external world skepticism.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-180904-7

0-19-106370-3

OCLC:

1249475528