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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerson, Lloyd P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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.