Richard Bett
Richard Arnot Home Bett holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University.[1] He received his BA from
Oxford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He spent 1994-5 as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. From January 2000 to June 2001 he was Acting Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association, and he was Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division from 2003 to 2013.[2]
Professor Bett specializes in ancient
Nietzsche.[3]
Books
- Pyrrho, His Antecedents and His Legacy, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-825065-4
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Editor Richard Bett, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-69754-5
Articles
- “Aristocles on Timon on Pyrrho: The text, its logic, and its credibility.”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 15/1994, p. 137-181.
- “Reactions to Aristotle in the Greek Sceptical Traditions”, Méthexis: Revista Internacional de Filosofia Antigua XII (1999), p. 17-34.
- “What does Pyrrhonism have to do with Pyrrho?”, in Ancient Skepticism and the Skeptical Tradition: Acta Philosophica Fennica 66 (2000), p. 11-33.
- “On the Pre-History of Pyrrhonism”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 15 (2000), p. 137-166.
- “Nietzsche on the Skeptics and Nietzsche as Skeptic”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 82 (2000), p. 62-86.
Translations
- Against the Ethicists, Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-823620-7
- Against the Logicians, Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-53195-5
- "Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists", Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 052151391X, 9780521513913
References
- ^ "Richard Bett".
- ^ "Minutes of the 2004 Eastern Division Executive Committee Meeting", Richard Bett, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 79, No. 1 (Sep., 2005), pp. 143-145
- ^ "Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: New "Philosophical Topics" Issue Devoted to Nietzsche". 15 May 2008.
External links
- Bett, Richard. "Pyrrho". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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