Ancient Epistemology (Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy / Philosophiegeschichte Und Logische Analyse)

We are glad to present the nineteenth volume of this journal. Its unitary thematic focus concerns a fruitful discussion of a variety of approaches in Ancient Epistemology. This volume of Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy presents in total eleven articles on the theme of Ancient Epistemology, ranging from the presocratic philosopher Xenophanes to Plotinus and Sextus Empiricus, both by established colleagues and by younger scholars at the beginning of their career. Many interpretations are new or feature new ideas or new applications of ideas. We are confident that they will stimulate the readers to develop their understanding of ancient epistemology in response to them. The Authors: Matthew Duncombe, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Patricia Curd, Lucas Angioni, Ada Bronowski, Lee Franklin, Audrey Anton, David Bronstein, Anna Tigani, Andrew Payne, Eleni Perdikouri, Petter Sandstad, Jared Smith and Ádám Tamás Tuboly. Titel Table of Contents 0ptwidth 2ptInhaltsverzeichnis Preface of the general editors – Vorwort Ancient Epistemology Pieter Sjoerd Hasper & Katerina Ierodiakonou: Foreword Alexander P. D. Mourelatos: ``Limitless'' and ``Limit'' in Xenophanes' Cosmology and in His Doctrine of Epistemic ``Construction'' (dokos) Tempering the Hyperbole in B34: Context Provided by Xenophanes' Theology The Relevance of Xenophanes' Physics ``What Is More Ready to Hand'' (procheiroteron) and the Bearing of Comparisons Superlatives and Comparison: Four Circumscribed Uses The Superlative ``Greatest'' Used of God Daniel Babut on Xenophanes' ``Relativism'' Comparativism in Plato's Philebus A Comparativist Epistemology ``Limits'', ``Limit'', and ``Unlimited'' in Cosmology DOKOS and the Search for Appropriate Limits Reprise: the Issue of Skepticism Bibliography Patricia Curd: Empedocles on Sensation, Perception, and Thought Bibliography Andrew Payne: Socrates the Same-Sayer I. Introduction II. Socrates' Wisdom-eligible Beliefs III. Believe in Order to be a Same-sayer IV. The Two Things Argument in the Apology Bibliography Audrey Anton: The Epistemological Benefits of Socrates' Religious Experience 1. Introduction 2. Divinity 3. The Apparent Conflict 4. Asymmetry and Actions 5. Implicit Consent 6. Riddles (ainigmae) and Entrenched False Beliefs 7. Knowing One Thing 8. When Having Truth Isn't Enough 9. Corrupt Belief Systems and the Nullification of Knowledge 10. Human Wisdom and Falsification 11. Care and Curiosity: Learning and Becoming Good 12. What is able to Withstand Scrutiny 13. Conclusion Bibliography Lee Franklin: The Origins of Dialectic in Ordinary Discourse (Meno 71b9–75a8) I. The Demand for a Unitary Account II. Meno's Tendency towards Plurality III. Reorienting Meno Bibliography Matthew Duncombe: Thought as Internal Speech in Plato and Aristotle Introduction 1. Thought and internal speech in Plato 2. Thought and internal speech in Aristotle 3. Plato's internal dialogue 4. Aristotle's internal monologue 5. The norm of non-contradiction Conclusion Bibliography David Bronstein: Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Theory of Innate Knowledge Introduction 1. Outline of Aristotle's Argument 2. Barnes' Interpretation 3. Potentiality and Actuality 4. Reading 1: The No Use Argument 5. A Platonic Response: the Drunk Geometer 6. Reading 2: The No Discovery Argument 7. Reading 3: The No Noticing Argument 8. The Innatist Responds Conclusion Bibliography Lucas Angioni: Aristotle's Definition of Scientific Knowledge (APo 71b 9–12) Introduction 1. Pragma as explanandum with predicative structure 2. The Necessity Requirement: scientific knowledge grasps something that ``cannot be otherwise''. 3. Incidental knowledge 4. ``Kata sumbebekos knowledge'' and necessary principles 5. Conclusion Bibliography Ada Bronowski: Rational Empiricism: The Stoics on Reason, Experience and Katalepsis Bibliography Anna Tigani: A New Answer to an Old Puzzle: Noein aplwc (Sextus Empiricus, PH II 1–10) II. III. How do the Sceptics come to noein aplwc without contradicting their Scepticism? IV. Noein aplwc, assent and Sceptical beliefs Bibliography Eleni Perdikouri: The Duality of phantasia in Plotinus: Two Faculties, or Two Representations? A representation is like a thought A representation is an image of a judgement The two sides of the representative faculty The exteriority of the objects of the faculty of representation The two representations, or changing the way we look at things Bibliography Book Reviews – Buchbesprechungen Michael T. Ferejohn: Formal Causes. Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought (Petter Sandstad) I II III IV V VI Bibliography David Gunkel/Paul A. Taylor: Heidegger and the Media (Jared Smith) Christian Damböck (ed.): Influences on the Aufbau (Ádám Tamás Tuboly) Robert C. Stalnaker: Context (Arno Goebel) Bibliography List of Contributors – Liste der Autoren