  george sotiros pappas (born 1942) is a professor of philosophy at ohio state university.departmental profile at osu pappas specializes in epistemology, the history of early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. he is of greek and english origin. he is the author of the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy entry on internalist versus externalist conceptions of epistemic justification.stanford encyclopedia of philosophy article he was co-editor (with marshall swain) of essays on knowledge and justification (1978), regarded as a key anthology of essays relating to the gettier problemgettier problem bibliography at the internet encyclopedia of philosophy and used as a core text in undergraduate epistemology courses.suggested epistemology reading list george pappas is an editorial consultant of berkeley studies. == studies in berkeley's philosophy == george s. pappas is known to be a leading berkeley scholar; his essay âberkeley and scepticismâ was in 1993 awarded the international berkeley prize.see: berkeley prize winners. the annual international berkeley essay prize competition was established by colin murray turbayne and his wife in 1990. professor pappas is a regular participant of international berkeley conferences.international berkeley conferences at one such conference, celebrating the 300th anniversary of george berkeleyâs birth, mr. pappas propounded a new approach to the relationship between berkeleyâs anti-abstractionism and "esse est percipi"to be is to be perceived. a core proposition of berkeley's ontology. principle. on pappas reading, berkeleyâs two theses â that there are no abstract ideas and that sens
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