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  1. (1 other version)Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs.Jean Pierre Vernant - 1966 - Paris,: Maspero.
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  2. Self-Deception, Despair, and Healing in Boethius' Consolation.Ryan M. Brown - 2025 - In John F. Finamore, R. Loredana Cardullo & Chiara Militello, Platonism Through the Centuries. Chepstow: Prometheus Trust. pp. 219-248.
    In the Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy leads Boethius through a series of obstacles that prevent him from finding happiness within his prison cell: the role that luck and misfortune play in our affairs, the false paths to happiness in comparison with the true journey, the problem of evil and the disproportion between people’s lives and eschatological deserts, and, finally, whether God’s providential order necessitates our outcomes or if we can choose freely to pursue the happy life. As the pair (...)
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  3. Bett, Richard. How to Be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 279 pp. [REVIEW]Nicolás Quiñones - 2023 - Ideas Y Valores 72 (Supl. 10):259-267.
  4. Cognition in Ancient Greek Philosophy and its Reception: Intedisciplinary Approaches.Melina G. Mouzala (ed.) - 2024 - Academia Verlag/Nomos.
  5. Disciplina et veritas: Augustine on Truth and the Liberal Arts.Vikram Kumar - 2025 - Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 11:1-25.
    In one of his earliest dialogues, the Soliloquia, Augustine identifies the liberal arts (disciplinae) with truth (veritas), and employs this somewhat puzzling identification as a premise in his infamous proof of the immortality of the soul (Sol. 2.24). In this paper, I examine Augustine’s argument for this peculiar identification. Augustine maintains both (1) that the constituent propositions of the liberal arts are true, and (2) that the liberal art of dialectic (disciplina disputandi) is the “truth through which all disciplines are (...)
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  6. Tobias Reinhardt, Cicero's Academici Libri and Lucullus: a commentary with introduction and translations. [REVIEW]Michael Vazquez - 2023 - Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (21).
  7. WAYS OF STUDYING PRACTICAL REASON - (J.) Ober The Greeks and the Rational. The Discovery of Practical Reason. (Sather Classical Lectures 76.) Pp. xxvi + 434, figs. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. Cased, £30, US$34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-38016-5. [REVIEW]David Roochnik - 2023 - The Classical Review 73 (2):675-677.
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  8. Philosophical imagination: thought experiments and arguments in antiquity.Boris Vezjak (ed.) - 2021 - Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    Thought experiments by ancient philosophers are often open to debate: in what sense did their reasoning really concern thought experimentation? For instance, in Plato's Republic, Glaucon uses the myth of Gyges to demonstrate why people who practice justice do so unwillingly. A challenge, posed to Socrates and provided through some sort of thought experiment by imagining the effects of using the ring of invisibility, was intended to answer the question of human nature and our basis for the inclination towards justice (...)
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  9. To enklēma tēs epistēmēs.Iōannēs Dēmētriou Passas - 1980 - Athēnai: Ekdoseis Enkyklopaideias "Hēliou,".
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  10. Essays in Ancient Epistemology by Gail Fine.Clyde Lee Miller - 2022 - Review of Metaphysics 75 (3):592-594.
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  11. Epicureans and Stoics on the Rationality of Perception.Whitney Schwab & Simon Shogry - 2023 - Wiley: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 106 (1):58-83.
    This paper examines an ancient debate over the rationality of perception. What leads the Stoics to affirm, and the Epicureans to deny, that to form a sense-impression is an activity of reason? The answer, we argue, lies in a disagreement over what is required for epistemic success. For the Stoics, epistemic success consists in believing the right propositions, and only rational states, in virtue of their predicational structure, put us in touch with propositions. Since they identify some sense-impressions as criteria (...)
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  12. Archaioellēnikē koinōnikē skepsē: mia kritikē theōrēsē me vasē tē synchronē epistēmologia kai tis neoteres koinōnikes epistēmes.Petros A. Gemtos - 2013 - Athēna: Ekdoseis Papazēsē.
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  13. (1 other version)Proof, knowledge, and scepticism.Jonathan Barnes - 2014 - Oxford: Clarendon Press. Edited by Maddalena Bonelli.
    This is the third volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy. It contains twenty-two pieces which turn about epistemological matters. The papers have all been brushed down, and some of them have been revised. One or two of them appear for the first time in English. The first three pieces form a prologue (and link this volume to its predecessor): they deal with certain ancient views about the relation between logic on the one hand and knowledge and science on (...)
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  14. Lost masters: rediscovering the mysticism of the ancient Greek philosophers.Linda Johnsen - 2006 - Novato, California: New World Library.
    Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago? Greek philosophers studying in India? Meditation classes in ancient Rome? It sounds unbelievable, but it’s historically true. Alexander the Great had an Indian guru. Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plotinus all encouraged their students to meditate. Apollonius, the most famous Western sage of the first century c.e., visited both India and Egypt—and claimed that Egyptian wisdom was rooted in India. In Lost Masters, award-winning author Linda Johnsen, digging deep into classical sources, uncovers evidence of astonishing (...)
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  15. Mythos, Wissenschaft, Philosophie: zur Entstehung der okzidentalen Rationalität in der griechischen Antike.Hans-Joachim Schönknecht - 2017 - Marburg: Tectum Verlag.
  16. Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy.Jure Simoniti & Gregor Kroupa (eds.) - 2022 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Against recent criticisms of idealism coming from the camp of the so-called New Realists, this volume shows that there is (and always has been) more to idealism than mind-centered ontology. The chapters by a group of both leading and up-and-coming scholars show that idealism can be approached from a plethora of angles, both contemporary and historically inspired, and that this broader view is precisely what may save its reputation in the 21st century.
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  17. Aspects of ancient epistemology - (g.) fine essays in ancient epistemology. Pp. X + 417. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2021. Cased, £80, us$105. Isbn: 978-0-19-874676-8. [REVIEW]Marina Volf - 2022 - The Classical Review 72 (2):692-694.
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  18. La aporía o el paso obturado.Gustavo Cataldo Sanguinetti - 2000 - Iter 8.
  19. Is Farming a Technē?Emily Hulme - 2022 - Ancient Philosophy 42 (2):443-451.
    Plato and Aristotle both grant and deny the status of techne to farming. How can we resolve this apparent inconsistency? The answer is by construing techne as a folk concept and farming as a marginal member of this category: farming is a techne in the sense of a specialized, rational practice, but it is a non-central case of techne because it is tied to the land and involves work outdoors.
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  20. Introduction.Jens Kristian Larsen - 2021 - In Kristian Larsen & Pål Rykkja Gilbert, Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy. Boston: BRILL. pp. 1-26.
  21. Fondamenti sonori del logos. Distribuzioni di senso all'interno dell'impero visuale.Elia Gonnella - 2020 - Illuminazioni. Rivista di Lingua, Letteratura E Comunicazione 54:48-74.
    The relationship between knowledge and vision seems really consolidated. It started in ancient Greece and we can found its basis in Plato. The history of logos as reason and as western foundation of culture gives us enormous examples in terms of metaphors and approaches in the knowledge-vision relationship. «I see it» is like «I know it». However if we look at the basis of logos we find the deep meaning of gathering, composition, bond and bind (lèghein), so as to we (...)
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  22. The Organic Roots of Conatus in Early Greek Thought.Christopher Kirby - 2021 - Conatus 6 (2):29-49.
    The focus of this paper will be on the earliest Greek treatments of impulse, motivation, and self-animation – a cluster of concepts tied to the hormē-conatus concept. I hope to offer a plausible account of how the earliest recorded views on this subject in mythological, pre-Socratic, and Classical writings might have inspired later philosophical developments by establishing the foundations for an organic, wholly naturalized approach to human inquiry. Three pillars of that approach which I wish to emphasize are: practical intelligence (...)
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  23. Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome.Tom P. S. Angier & Lisa Ann Raphals (eds.) - 2021 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    This collection illustrates the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including ancient Chinese ethics, showing how skill or techne has been a touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought. Covering Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne and the Stoics' 'art of life'. Divided into four sections on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Chinese ethics, it brings together world-leading philosophers working across this broad topic. Yet it is not limited to (...)
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  24. Structure and Aim in Socratic and Sophistic Method.Evan Rodriguez - 2020 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 23 (1):143-166.
    I begin this paper with a puzzle: why is Plato’s Parmenides replete with references to Gorgias? While the Eleatic heritage and themes in the dialogue are clear, it is less clear what the point would be of alluding to a well-known sophist. I suggest that the answer has to do with the similarities in the underlying methods employed by both Plato and Gorgias. These similarities, as well as Plato’s recognition of them, suggest that he owes a more significant philosophical and (...)
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  25. Heraclitus' Rebuke of Polymathy: A Core Element in the Reflectiveness of His Thought.Keith Begley - 2020 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 23 (1):21–50.
    I offer an examination of a core element in the reflectiveness of Heraclitus’ thought, namely, his rebuke of polymathy . In doing so, I provide a response to a recent claim that Heraclitus should not be considered to be a philosopher, by attending to his paradigmatically philosophical traits. Regarding Heraclitus’ attitude to that naïve form of ‘wisdom’, i.e., polymathy, I argue that he does not advise avoiding experience of many things, rather, he advises rejecting experience of things as merely many (...)
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  26. Evidence and explanation in Cicero's On Divination.Frank Cabrera - 2020 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 82 (C):34-43.
    In this paper, I examine Cicero’s oft-neglected De Divinatione, a dialogue investigating the legitimacy of the practice of divination. First, I offer a novel analysis of the main arguments for divination given by Quintus, highlighting the fact that he employs two logically distinct argument forms. Next, I turn to the first of the main arguments against divination given by Marcus. Here I show, with the help of modern probabilistic tools, that Marcus’ skeptical response is far from the decisive, proto-naturalistic assault (...)
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  27. Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy.Joseph S. O’Leary - 1991 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 33:238-246.
  28. Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê.Thomas Kjeller Johansen (ed.) - 2020 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out the ancient debates about technê from the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers, through Plato and Aristotle and the Hellenistic age, ending in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Amongst the many themes that come into focus are: the model status of ancient medicine in defining the political art, the similarities between the Platonic and (...)
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  29. Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life. By Jacqueline Feke. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 234. [REVIEW]Nicholas Danne - 2020 - Metaphilosophy 51 (1):151-155.
  30. Pseudo-Archytas’ Protreptics? On Wisdom in its Contexts.Phillip Sidney Horky - 2015 - In Debra Nails & Harold Tarrant, Second Sailing: Alternative Perspectives on Plato. Societas Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 21-39.
    In his Exhortation to Philosophy (Protrepticus), the Neoplatonic philosopher Iamblichus famously preserves material culled from lost works of ancient philosophy, including dialogues of Aristotle. He also preserves a work entitled On Wisdom and ascribed to the Pythagorean philosopher Archytas of Tarentum, who was a friend and challenger of Plato. The text On Wisdom is a later Hellenistic production, probably written in the 1st century BCE, but it presents an important piece in the puzzle of reconstructing Pythagoreanism for the Hellenistic and (...)
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  31. Hellenistic Pythagorean Epistemology.Phillip Sidney Horky & Giulia De Cesaris - 2018 - Lexicon Philosophicum 6 (Special Issue: 'Hellenistic Theo):221-262.
    The paper offers a running commentary on ps-Archytas’ On Intellect and Sense Perception (composed ca. 80 BCE), with the aim to provide a clear description of Hellenistic/post-Hellenistic Pythagorean epistemology. Through an analysis of the process of knowledge and of the faculties that this involves, ps-Archytas presents an original epistemological theory which, although grounded in Aristotelian and Platonic theories, results in a peculiar Pythagorean criteriology that accounts for the acquisition and production of knowledge, as well as for the specific competences of (...)
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  32. Speusippus and Xenocrates on the Pursuit and Ends of Philosophy.Phillip Sidney Horky - 2017 - In Harold Tarrant, Danielle A. Layne, Dirk Baltzly & François Renaud, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity. Leiden: Brill. pp. 29-45.
    The philosophical practices undertaken in Plato's Academy remain, in the words of Cherniss, a 'riddle'. Yet surviving accounts of the views of the first two scholarchs of Plato's Academy after his death, Speusippus and Xenocrates, reveal a sophisticated engagement with their teacher's ideas concerning the pursuit of knowledge and the ends of philosophy. Speusippus and Xenocrates transform Plato's views on epistemology and happiness, and thereby help to lay the groundwork for the transformation of philosophy in the Hellenistic era.
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  33. Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus. Pp. xii + 291. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19-926222-5. [REVIEW]James Warren - 2006 - The Classical Review 56 (1):59-61.
  34. The Sceptics - Thorsrud Ancient Scepticism. Pp. xvi + 248. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2009. Paper, £14.99 . ISBN: 978-1-84465-131-3. [REVIEW]Suzanne Obdrzalek - 2010 - The Classical Review 60 (2):376-378.
  35. Ancient Epistemology Naturalized - Gerson Ancient Epistemology. Pp. x + 179. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Paper, £15.99, US$28.99 . ISBN: 978-0-521-69189-5. [REVIEW]Walter Cavini - 2011 - The Classical Review 61 (2):417-420.
  36. Zeno of Citium’s Causal Theory of Apprehensive Appearances.Pavle Stojanović - 2019 - Ancient Philosophy 39 (1):151-174.
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  37. The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School. [REVIEW]R. J. Hankinson - 2001 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3):720-723.
    This is not a long book—but it is surprising that it is as long as it is. The Cyrenaics are one of a number of more or less shadowy philosophical schools which emerged in the Greek world in the 4th century BC and later. Well known are Plato’s Academy and Aristotle’s Lyceum; and relatively well served by the tradition are the Stoics and the Epicureans, as well as the various later varieties of sceptic; while the Cynics are remembered at least (...)
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  38. Companions to Ancient Thought 1. [REVIEW]Christopher Shields - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (1):209-216.
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  39. Der Begriff der Würde im antiken Rom und später. Vorgetragen am 10. Mai 1969. [REVIEW]Robin Seager - 1992 - The Classical Review 42 (1):211-211.
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  40. Lo sguardo nel buio. Metafore visive e forme grecoantiche della razionalità. [REVIEW]Simon Goldhill - 1995 - The Classical Review 45 (2):462-463.
  41. The Religious Thought of the Greeks. By Clifford Herschel Moore. 1 vol. 8vo. Pp. vi + 385. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916. [REVIEW]R. G. Bury - 1918 - The Classical Review 32 (5-6):131-131.
  42. The Criterion of Truth. [REVIEW]M. R. Wright - 1991 - The Classical Review 41 (1):109-111.
  43. Augustine's Debt to Stoicism in the Confessions.Sarah Catherine Byers - 2015 - In John Sellars, The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition. New York: Routledge. pp. 56-69.
    Seneca asserts in Letter 121 that we mature by exercising self-care as we pass through successive psychosomatic “constitutions.” These are babyhood (infantia), childhood (pueritia), adolescence (adulescentia), and young adulthood (iuventus). The self-care described by Seneca is 'self-affiliation' (oikeiōsis, conciliatio) the linchpin of the Stoic ethical system, which defines living well as living in harmony with nature, posits that altruism develops from self-interest, and allows that pleasure and pain are indicators of well-being while denying that happiness consists in pleasure and that (...)
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  44. Greek Mathematical Diagrams: Their Use and Their Meaning’.R. Netz - 1998 - For the Learning of Mathematics 18:33-39.
  45. Recollection and Posterior Analystics II, 19.John Catan - 1970 - Apeiron 4 (2):34.
    Which are "innate" but "unnoticed" point–as is usually held–to the platonic doctrine of recollection or to some other source? my argument is two- pronged: negatively i argue that aristotle is not describing his hearers as impeded by plato's notion of recollection; the other, positive, that he is describing a misunderstanding of his own quite different doctrine of nous in the minds of his hearers. I show that the two elements of the aporia fit the teaching of aristotle on nous found (...)
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  46. Tlato on perception and" commons'", CQ 40: 148-75.. 1991.'Plato on Phantasia.'.Allan Silverman - 1990 - Classical Antiquity 10 (1):123-47.
  47. William Jordan, Ancient Concepts of Philosophy Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Christopher Byrne - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (3):176-178.
    Review of Ancient Concepts of Philosophy by William Jordan.
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  48. The Origin of the Stoic Theory of Signs in Sextus Empiricus.Theodor Ebert - 1987 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 5:83-126.
    In this paper I argue that the Stoic theory of signs as reported by Sextus Empiricus in AM and in PH belongs to Stoic logicians which precede Chrysippus. I further argue that the PH-version of this theory presupposes the version in AM and is an attempt to improve the older theory. I tentatively attribute the PH-version to Cleanthes and the AM-version to Zeno. I finally argue that the origin of this Stoic theory is to be found in the Dialectical school (...)
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  49. Il lessico dell'astrazione in Alessandro di Afrodisia.Chiara Militello - 2013 - Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 9 (2):302-321.
    This article is about the terms used in the works traditionally ascribed to Alexander of Aphrodisias to mean the process of abstraction through which intellect separates form and matter. The passages are studied in order to identify what nouns and verbs are used. Since in two works of dubious authorship aphaireô and aphairesis are found, the usage of these terms in the works that can be ascribed with certainty to Alexander is studied. The results obtained are examined in the light (...)
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  50. (1 other version)Syllogism, demonstration, and definition in Aristotle's Topics and Posterior Analytics.James Allen - 2011 - In Michael Frede, James V. Allen, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Wolfgang-Rainer Mann & Benjamin Morison, Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 40--63.
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