Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor M. F. Burnyeat is an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College! Cambridge! and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College! Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded a CBE for his services to scholarship in 2007. Klappentext The first of two volumes collecting the published work up to 2000 of one of the greatest living scholars of ancient philosophy alive today. Zusammenfassung The first of two volumes collecting the published work from the period up to 2000 of one of the greatest living scholars of ancient philosophy alive today. The subject-matter falls under four main headings: 'Logic and Dialectic' and 'Scepticism Ancient and Modern' are contained in this first volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Part I. Logic and Dialectic: 1. Protagoras and self-refutation in later Greek philosophy; 2. Protagoras and self-refutation in Plato's Theaetetus; 3. The upside-down back-to-front sceptic of Lucretius IV.472; 4. Antipater and self-refutation: elusive arguments in Cicero's Academica; 5. Gods and heaps; 6. The origins of non-deductive inference; 7. Enthymeme: Aristotle on the logic of persuasion; Part II. Scepticism Ancient and Modern: 8. Can the sceptic live his scepticism?; 9. Tranquillity without a stop: Timon! frag. 68; 10. Idealism and Greek philosophy: what Descartes saw and Berkeley missed; 11. Conflicting appearances; 12. The sceptic in his place and time; 13. Dissoi logoi; Bibliography.

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• Authors: M. F. Burnyeat, M. F. (University of Cambridge) Burnyeat, Myles Burnyeat, BURNYEAT MYLES, Michael Holtmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9780521750721
• ISBN: 978-0-521-75072-1
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy 2 Volume Hardback Set; Explorations in Ancient and Mo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day