Ancient Epistemology
Series: Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy; Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780511506789
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge
Description: Explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE Ancient and modern perspectives; CHAPTER TWO The origin of epistemology; CHAPTER THREE Plato; Chapter FOUR Aristotle; CHAPTER FIVE Epicureanism and Stoicism; CHAPTER SIX Scepticism; CHAPTER 7 Plotinus and the Neoplatonic synthesis; CHAPTER EIGHT Varieties of naturalism; Further reading; Index of main texts of ancient authors cited; General index.