Professor Gisela Striker, Harvard University: Epicurus’ Democritean Epistemology
Friday, October 7th, 2011
3:15 – 5:00 pm
Eaton Humanities 135
Abstract: An examination of Epicurus' epistemology as a response to the skeptical challenge expressed by his predecessor Democritus
Gisela Striker is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Emerita, Harvard University. She has been a distinguished scholar of Ancient Philosophy for over forty years. Her major publications include: Peras und Apeiron: das Problem der Formen in Platons Philebos (1970), a study of some deeply controversial topics in Plato’s late metaphysics; Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics (1996), a wide ranging and influential collection of her articles in this area, including her ground breaking paper on the Hellenistic concept of a ‘criterion of truth’ and her paper ‘Following Nature: A Study of Stoic Ethics’ which is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophical reconstructions of Stoic ethical theory; and her translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics (2009), his first work of formal logic. From 1998 to 2000 she was the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University, the most distinguished chair worldwide in the field of Ancient Philosophy. She has also taught at Columbia University and Stanford University.
Gisela Striker is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Emerita, Harvard University. She has been a distinguished scholar of Ancient Philosophy for over forty years. Her major publications include: Peras und Apeiron: das Problem der Formen in Platons Philebos (1970), a study of some deeply controversial topics in Plato’s late metaphysics; Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics (1996), a wide ranging and influential collection of her articles in this area, including her ground breaking paper on the Hellenistic concept of a ‘criterion of truth’ and her paper ‘Following Nature: A Study of Stoic Ethics’ which is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophical reconstructions of Stoic ethical theory; and her translation and commentary of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics (2009), his first work of formal logic. From 1998 to 2000 she was the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University, the most distinguished chair worldwide in the field of Ancient Philosophy. She has also taught at Columbia University and Stanford University.
This lecture is sponsored by GCAH and the Departments of Philosophy and Classics. The lecture is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome.
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