What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology

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.

Author: Stephen Hetherington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/25/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780367361402

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2020

About the Author

Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia, and Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His publications include Epistemology's Paradox (1992), Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (2001), How to Know (2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (2016).

Nicholas D. Smith is the James F. Miller Professor of Humanities in the Departments of Classics and Philosophy at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His publications include Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic (2019), Knowledge (with Ian Evans) (2012), and Socratic Moral Psychology (with Thomas C. Brickhouse) (2010).