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Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature and Modern Skepticism
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2014
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Confronting the scientific revolution’s dismissal of Aristotle’s physics and epistemology, Nathan R. Colaner revives this foundational philosopher’s work to expose within it the underpinnings of modern philosophers’ most common intuitions about knowledge. After Aristotle’s picture of reality had been judged obsolete by the physics of the scientific revolution, modern Western epistemologists fumbled along with doctrines that had little to do with everyday life. These included Descartes’ notion of the evil genius, Hume’s claim that we can’t know anything that we are not presently observing, and Kant’s rescue of knowledge in the context of idealism. In Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature and Modern Skepticism, Colaner articulates a notion of knowledge that is characteristically Aristotelian without being dependent on his metaphysics. Simultaneously, Colaner places Aristotle in dialogue with modern thinkers to create a bridge between classical and modern philosophy and reinstate Aristotle’s prominence in the discipline of epistemology.
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2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7712-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7713-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
195
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List of Abbreviations No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
1. What Epistēmē Is Not No access
2. The Principles of Epistēmē No access
3. Pursuing the Principles: Epagōgē No access
4. Grasping the Principles: Nous No access
5. Using the Principles: Demonstration and Contemplation No access
6. Hume and Kant on the Problem of Objective Validity No access
7. Kant and Aristotle on Spontaneity No access
8. Gettier and the Problem of Justification No access
9. Descartes and the Problem of External World Skepticism No access
10. The Problem of Intellectual Intuition No access
11. Dialectic and Metaphysical Skepticism No access
