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.
Edited by:
Professor Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis & Clark College USA) Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN:9781350446601 ISBN 10: 1350446602 Pages: 280 Publication Date:16 May 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Ancient Epistemology: Introduction (Nicholas D. Smith) 1. ‘Sophia’ and ‘Episteme’ in the Archaic and Classical Periods (David Wolfsdorf) 2. Presocratic Epistemology (Daniel W. Graham) 3. Epistemology in the Sophists (Noburu Notomi) 4. Socratic Epistemology (Jose Lourenço and Nicholas D. Smith) 5. Epistemology in Plato’s Middle Dialogues (Naomi Reshotko) 6. Plato’s Later Epistemology (Hugh H. Benson) 7. Aristotle on Understanding and Practical Wisdom (Corinne Gartner) 8. Aristotle: From Perception to Understanding (Keith McPartland) 9. Epicurean Epistemology (Pierre-Marie Morel) 10. Stoic Epistemology (Marcelo Boeri) 11. Ancient Scepticism (Paul Woodruff) 12. Epistemologies in Neoplatonism (Péter Lautner) 13. Roman Epistemology (Walter Englert)
Nicholas D. Smith is James F. Miller Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Lewis & Clark College, USA.
