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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard Bett (Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9780198712701ISBN 10: 0198712707 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 14 June 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text and Translation Outline of Argument Book 1: Introduction to the Entire Work; General Arguments against the Disciplines; Against the Grammarians Book 2: Against the Rhetoricians Book 3: Against the Geometers Book 4: Against the Arithmeticians Book 5: Against the Astrologers Book 6: Against the Musicians Persons Referred to in Against those in the Disciplines Glossary Parallels between Against those in the Disciplines and other Works of SextusReviewsAgainst Those in the Disciplines remains a work of considerable interest... Richard Bett's excellent translation does a great service * Máté Veres, Journal for the Study of Skepticism * Bett succeeds in creating a remarkably clear, modern English translation of the complex, often obscure text ... the interested reader will find this fascinating work intellectually challenging ... The introduction, notes, and bibliography are excellent. * P. A. Streveler, CHOICE * Bett succeeds in creating a remarkably clear, modern English translation of the complex, often obscure text ... the interested reader will find this fascinating work intellectually challenging ... The introduction, notes, and bibliography are excellent. * P. A. Streveler, CHOICE * Author InformationRichard Bett is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. His scholarly work has focused particularly on the ancient sceptics. He is the author of Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy (Oxford, 2000), and has translated Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists (Oxford, 1997, with Introduction and Commentary), Against the Logicians (Cambridge, 2005, with Introduction and Notes) and Against the Physicists (Cambridge, 2012, with Introduction and Notes). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge, 2010). He has also published articles on Plato, Socrates, the Sophists, the Stoics and Nietzsche. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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