Richard Bett
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
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Email: rbett1@jhu.edu
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Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
Richard Bett specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, with a particular focus on ethics and epistemology. He also has interests in modern ethics and epistemology, as well as a significant side-interest in Nietzsche. He is the author of Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy (Oxford, 2000), and of translations of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists (Oxford, 1997, with introduction and commentary) and Against the Logicians (Cambridge, 2005, with introduction and notes); he is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (2010). He is currently working on a translation, with introduction and notes, of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists (contract with Cambridge University Press). In addition, he has published articles in Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron (of which he is an Editorial Board member) and elsewhere. His publications have been especially on ancient Greek skepticism (sometimes including comparisons with modern approaches to skepticism), but also include papers on the Stoics, Socrates, Plato, the Sophists and Nietzsche. He spent 1994-5 as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. From January 2000 to June 2001 he was Acting Executive Director of The American Philosophical Association, and since 2003 he has been Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division.
Some Forthcoming Articles
Ancient Scepticism, forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics
Against the Physicists on Gods (M IX.13-194), forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium Hellenisticum. See also the Appendix and Bibliography to this paper.
Can an Ancient Greek Sceptic be Eudaimôn (or Happy)?, revised version of a paper presented at the 2007 Philosophy in Assos conference on Happiness; to be published in Journal of Ancient Philosophy (online)
The Pyrrhonist's Dilemma: What to Write if you have Nothing to Say, forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 3rd meeting of the Gesellschaft der antike Philosophie (Würzburg, Germany, 2010) and (in Portuguese translation) in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Meeting on Skepticism (Salvador, Brazil, 2010)
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