Ancient Epistemology

Informationen zum Autor Lloyd Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on ancient philosophy including most recently Aristotle and Other Platonists (2005) and Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato (2004). Zusammenfassung This first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity. Gerson argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge and compares this with some contemporary epistemologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ancient and modern perspectives; 2. The origin of epistemology; 3. Plato; 4. Aristotle; 5. Epicureanism and Stoicism; 6. Skepticism; 7. Plotinus and the Neoplatonic synthesis; 8. Varieties of naturalism; Bibliographical essay.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lloyd P. Gerson
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521691895
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69189-5
• Seiten: 190
• Serien: Key Themes in Ancient Philosop; Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge