Ancient epistemology /
"Ancient Epistemology explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists of late antiquity. Professor Gerson argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge as well as of belief. Hence, knowledge was not vi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Key themes in ancient philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ancient and modern perspectives
- The origin of epistemology
- Plato
- Republic
- Theaetetus
- Knowledge versus belief
- Aristotle
- Posterior analytics
- De anima
- Epicureanism and stoicism
- Epicurean epistemology
- Stoic epistemology
- Scepticism
- Pyrrho and the beginning of scepticism
- Academic scepticism
- The Pyrrhonist revival
- Plotinus and the Neoplatonic synthesis
- The Platonist's response to the Pyrrhonist
- Knowledge and consciousness
- Imagination
- Varieties of naturalism
- Naturalism redivivus
- Epistemology and nature
- Naturalism and the mental
- Concluding remarks.