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Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians By Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians by Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)


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Sextus Empiricus' Against the Logicians is a prime example of the ancient Greek sceptical method at work. This volume presents it in a new and accurate translation together with a detailed introduction.

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians Summary

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians by Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Sextus Empiricus' Against the Logicians is by far the most detailed surviving examination by any ancient Greek sceptic of the areas of epistemology and logic. It critically examines the pretensions of non-sceptical philosophers to have discovered methods for determining the truth, either through direct observation or by inference from the observed to the unobserved. It is therefore a fine example of the Pyrrhonist sceptical method at work. It also provides a mine of information about the ideas of other Greek thinkers, ideas that are in many cases poorly preserved in other sources. This volume presents Against the Logicians in a new and accurate translation, together with a detailed introduction that sets the work in its philosophical context.

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians Reviews

...this is an excellent work. It is a valuable new tool for the study both of Sextan Pyrrhonism and of the logical and epistemological doctrines expounded in AD I-II, and will no doubt become the standard English translation of these books in the years to come. Bett has proved, once again, that he is one of the leading specialists in Pyrrhonian skepticism. --Diego E. Machuca, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (Argentina), Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at The Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Book I; Book II.

Additional information

NLS9780521531955
9780521531955
0521531950
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians by Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2005-12-22
254
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