| Ancient Epistemology Contributor(s): Gerson, Lloyd P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521871395 ISBN-13: 9780521871396 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 121.09 |
| LCCN: 2008040774 |
| Series: Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists of late antiquity. He argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge as well as of belief. Hence, knowledge was not viewed as a stipulated or semantically determined type of belief but was rather a real or objectively determinable achievement. In fact, its attainment was identical with the highest possible cognitive achievement, namely wisdom. It was this naturalistic view of knowledge at which the ancient Skeptics took aim. The book concludes by comparing the ancient naturalistic epistemology with some contemporary versions. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gerson, Lloyd P.: - 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). |