What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology

By: Stephen Hetherington (Editor), Nicholas D. Smith (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 September 2019

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This book encourages renewed attention by contemporary epistemologists to an area most of them overlook: ancient philosophy. Readers are invited to revisit writings by Plato, Aristotle, Pyrrho, and others, and to ask what new insights might be gained from those philosophical ancestors. Are there ideas, questions, or lines of thought that were present in some ancient philosophy and that have subsequently been overlooked? Are there contemporary epistemological ideas, questions, or lines of thought that can be deepened by gazing back upon some ancient philosophy? The answers are 'yes' and 'yes', according to this book's 13 chapters, written by philosophers seeking to enrich contemporary epistemology through engaging with ancient epistemology.　

Key features:

Blends ancient epistemology with contemporary epistemology, each reciprocally enriching each.
Conceptually sensitive chapters by scholars of ancient epistemology.
Historically sensitive chapters by scholars of contemporary epistemology.
Clearly written chapters, guiding readers at once through central elements both of ancient and of contemporary epistemology.

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CHOICE 'Highly Recommended':
"Students taking historically oriented philosophy courses frequently say they do not see how figures such as Plato and Aristotle matter to current philosophical problems. In the same spirit, contemporary epistemologists rarely refer back to the ancients for help with or insight into current issues. [Volume editors] Hetherington and Smith, both prolific authors, attempt to rectify this and show that both contemporary epistemology and ancient philosophy (specifically, ancient Greek epistemology) can develop new lines of thought and solve pressing problems by looking to the other. As one might expect, Plato and Aristotle dominate the collection (with seven and three essays, respectively), but there are also insightful essays on the Academics, Pyrrhonian skepticism, and understanding. Among the contemporary issues addressed are know-how, understanding, conceptions of knowledge, virtue epistemology, skepticism, and the so-called swamping problem. Revealing the value of the epistemology of ancient Greece, this volume is an ideal resource for courses in both ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary epistemology. Summing up: Highly recommended."
--J. McBain, in CHOICE

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