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Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
Display, Acquisition and Boundaries
The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy’s greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers. This volume covers the Presocratics, Sophists, and treatments of knowledge offered by Socrates and Plato. With original insights into the vast sweep of ways in which philosophers have sought to understand knowledge, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History embraces what is vital and evolving within contemporary epistemology. Overseen by an international team of leading philosophers and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters, this is a major collection on one of philosophy’s defining topics.

Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy Display Acquisition and Boundaries 1st Table of contents:

General Editor’s Preface
Ancient Epistemology: Introduction
1. Wisdom and skill
2. Knowledge
3. Epistemology of power and process
4. Aristotle and understanding
5. Epistemology in service of an ethical goal
6. The last ancient epistemologies
Notes
References
1 ‘Sophia’ and ‘Episteme’ in the Archaic and Classical Periods
1. Introduction
2. Pre-philosophical uses of ‘sophie’
3. Pre-philosophical uses of ‘episteme’
4. Philosophical uses of ‘sophie/a’ in the fifth century
5. Philosophical uses of ‘episteme’ to Aristotle
6. Philosophical uses of ‘sophia’ in the fourth century
Notes
References
2 Presocratic Epistemology
1. Introduction
2. Divine and human knowledge
3. Human knowledge in Ionia
4. Transcendent knowledge in Elea
5. Neo-Ionian models of knowledge
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Epistemology in the Sophists
1. The Sophists and their activities
2. Truth as the power of speech
3. Human wisdom against divine authority
4. Gorgias’ challenge to philosophy
5. Protagoras’ ‘Man-Measure thesis’
6. Later interpretations of the Man-Measure thesis
Notes
References
4 Socratic Epistemology
1. Introduction
2. The Socratic professions of ignorance and knowledge
3. Socratic agnoiology, part I: risk and reward
4. Socratic agnoiology, part II: aetiology and remediation
5. The Socratic elenchos
6. Elenchos and the rational remediation of ignorance
7. Elenchos and the irrational sources of ignorance
8. Summary and conclusion
Notes
References
5 Epistemology in Plato’s Middle Dialogues
1. Introduction
2. Meno’s paradox and recollection
3. Recollection in the Phaedo
4. Recollection as constitutive of recognition
5. Recollection’s purpose and results
6. Other methods
7. Knowledge, opinion, and ignorance
8. The divided line and the method of hypothesis
9. Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Plato’s Later Epistemology
1. Introduction
2. Theaetetus
3. Timaeus
4. Philebus
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Aristotle on Understanding and Practical Wisdom
1. Introduction and background
2. Could there be unqualified understanding of politics?
3. Aristotle’s identification of practical wisdom and political science
Notes
References
8 Aristotle: From Perception to Understanding
1. Introduction
2. Aristotle’s cognitive landscape: episteme, gnosis, doxa, and hupolepsis
3. Externalism and teleological naturalism
4. Understanding and comprehension
Notes
References
9 Epicurean Epistemology
1. Introduction
2. The Epicurean tradition and our sources on Epicurean epistemology
3. Sensation as primary evidence
4. Preconceptions: genesis and methodology
5. Criticism and use of demonstrations
6. Judgement and science
7. Conclusion: epistemology and ethics
Notes
References
10 Stoic Epistemology
1. Stoic epistemology and its platonic background
2. Perception, impression, assent, and concept formation in the background of a material soul
3. Opinion, cognition, knowledge, and the power of experience in knowledge
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
11 Ancient Scepticism
1. Introduction
2. Precursors
3. Origins: Pyrrho
4. Principal sceptics
5. Academic Scepticism
6. The Stoic-sceptic debate
7. Against the criterion
8. Action without belief
9. The Pyrrhonian revival
10. Sceptical argument
Notes
References
12 Epistemologies in Neoplatonism.
1. Introduction
2. Plotinus
3. Porphyry
4. Proclus
5. Alexandrian Neoplatonists
6. The final period of the Academy at Athens
Notes
References
13 Roman Epistemology
1. Introduction
2. Lucretius and Epicurean epistemology
3. Cicero and Academic Scepticism
4. Roman epistemology under the Roman Empire: Seneca
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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