Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence

Author:   James Allen (University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   292
Publication Date:   07 August 2008
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Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence


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Author:   James Allen (University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780199550494


ISBN 10:   0199550492
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   07 August 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Study I: Aristotle on sign-inference and related forms of argument Study I Appendix A: The text of Rhetoric, II 25, 1403a6-10 Study I Appendix B: Were there other developments in Aristotle's rhetorical theory? Study II: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus' treatment of sign-inference Study III; The Stoics on sign-inference and demonstration Study III Appendix: The evidence for a Dialectical origin of the Stoic theory of signs Study IV: Epicurean sign-inference in Philodemus Conclusion

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This excellent book provides a number of new historical and exegetical takes on an important chapter in Hellenistic epistemology. Allen's ideas will be at the center of future debates in the field. His arguments are not conclusive, and the reader may not find them all convincing, but such is the nature of Hellenistic epistemology. --Ancient Philosophy


<br> This excellent book provides a number of new historical and exegetical takes on an important chapter in Hellenistic epistemology. Allen's ideas will be at the center of future debates in the field. His arguments are not conclusive, and the reader may not find them all convincing, but such is the nature of Hellenistic epistemology. --Ancient Philosophy<br>


Author Information

James Allen is professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has held a visiting appointment at Yale, been a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Stipendiat of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at the Universität Hamburg. His principal interests are in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. He is the author of articles about ancient conceptions of expertise, ancient skepticism, ancient medicine, Aristotelian logic, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Cicero.

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