Ancient Epistemology (Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy / Philosophiegeschichte Und Logische Analyse)

✍ Scribed by Katerina Ierodiakonou (editor), Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Mentis
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

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Preface of the general editors – Vorwort
Ancient Epistemology
Pieter Sjoerd Hasper & Katerina Ierodiakonou: Foreword
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos: Limitless'' andLimit'' in Xenophanes' Cosmology and in His Doctrine of Epistemic Construction'' (dokos) Tempering the Hyperbole in B34: Context Provided by Xenophanes' Theology The Relevance of Xenophanes' PhysicsWhat Is More Ready to Hand'' (procheiroteron) and the Bearing of Comparisons
Superlatives and Comparison: Four Circumscribed Uses
The Superlative Greatest'' Used of God Daniel Babut on Xenophanes'Relativism''
Comparativism in Plato's Philebus
A Comparativist Epistemology
Limits'',Limit'', and Unlimited'' in Cosmology DOKOS and the Search for Appropriate Limits Reprise: the Issue of Skepticism Bibliography Patricia Curd: Empedocles on Sensation, Perception, and Thought Bibliography Andrew Payne: Socrates the Same-Sayer I. Introduction II. Socrates' Wisdom-eligible Beliefs III. Believe in Order to be a Same-sayer IV. The Two Things Argument in the Apology Bibliography Audrey Anton: The Epistemological Benefits of Socrates' Religious Experience 1. Introduction 2. Divinity 3. The Apparent Conflict 4. Asymmetry and Actions 5. Implicit Consent 6. Riddles (ainigmae) and Entrenched False Beliefs 7. Knowing One Thing 8. When Having Truth Isn't Enough 9. Corrupt Belief Systems and the Nullification of Knowledge 10. Human Wisdom and Falsification 11. Care and Curiosity: Learning and Becoming Good 12. What is able to Withstand Scrutiny 13. Conclusion Bibliography Lee Franklin: The Origins of Dialectic in Ordinary Discourse (Meno 71b9–75a8) I. The Demand for a Unitary Account II. Meno's Tendency towards Plurality III. Reorienting Meno Bibliography Matthew Duncombe: Thought as Internal Speech in Plato and Aristotle Introduction 1. Thought and internal speech in Plato 2. Thought and internal speech in Aristotle 3. Plato's internal dialogue 4. Aristotle's internal monologue 5. The norm of non-contradiction Conclusion Bibliography David Bronstein: Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Theory of Innate Knowledge Introduction 1. Outline of Aristotle's Argument 2. Barnes' Interpretation 3. Potentiality and Actuality 4. Reading 1: The No Use Argument 5. A Platonic Response: the Drunk Geometer 6. Reading 2: The No Discovery Argument 7. Reading 3: The No Noticing Argument 8. The Innatist Responds Conclusion Bibliography Lucas Angioni: Aristotle's Definition of Scientific Knowledge (APo 71b 9–12) Introduction 1. Pragma as explanandum with predicative structure 2. The Necessity Requirement: scientific knowledge grasps something thatcannot be otherwise''.
3. Incidental knowledge
4. ``Kata sumbebekos knowledge'' and necessary principles
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Ada Bronowski: Rational Empiricism: The Stoics on Reason, Experience and Katalepsis
Bibliography
Anna Tigani: A New Answer to an Old Puzzle: Noein aplwc (Sextus Empiricus, PH II 1–10)
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III. How do the Sceptics come to noein aplwc without contradicting their Scepticism?
IV. Noein aplwc, assent and Sceptical beliefs
Bibliography
Eleni Perdikouri: The Duality of phantasia in Plotinus: Two Faculties, or Two Representations?
A representation is like a thought
A representation is an image of a judgement
The two sides of the representative faculty
The exteriority of the objects of the faculty of representation
The two representations, or changing the way we look at things
Bibliography
Book Reviews – Buchbesprechungen
Michael T. Ferejohn: Formal Causes. Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (Petter Sandstad)
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Bibliography
David Gunkel/Paul A. Taylor: Heidegger and the Media (Jared Smith)
Christian Damböck (ed.): Influences on the Aufbau (Ádám Tamás Tuboly)
Robert C. Stalnaker: Context (Arno Goebel)
Bibliography
List of Contributors – Liste der Autoren