Ancient Epistemology

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Author(s): Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2009

Language: English
Commentary: More best quality: original cover like retail edition.

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Contents
Preface
CHAPTER ONE Ancient and modern perspectives
CHAPTER TWO The origin of epistemology
CHAPTER THREE Plato
1 Introduction
CHAPTER THREE Plato
2 Republic
3 Theaetetus
CHAPTER THREE Plato
4 Knowledge Versus Belief
CHATPER FOUR Aristotle
1 Introduction
2 Posterior Analytics
CHATPER FOUR Aristotle
3 De Anima
CHAPTER FIVE Epicureanism and Stoicism
1 Introduction
2 Epicurean Epistemology
3 Stoic Epistemology
CHAPTER SIX Scepticism
1 Pyrrho and the Beginning of Scepticism
2 Academic Scepticism
3 The Pyrrhonist Revival
CHAPTER 7 Plotinus and the Neoplatonic synthesis
1 Introduction
2 The Platonist’s Response to the Pyrrhonist
3 Knowledge and Consciousness
4 Imagination
CHAPTER EIGHT Varieties of naturalism
1 Naturalism Redivivus
2 Epistemology and Nature
3 Naturalism and the Mental
4 Concluding Remarks
Further reading
Index of main texts of ancient authors cited
General index