Ancient Greek Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University Gilman Hall 344 3400 North Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-6863 E-mail: rbett1@jhu.edu PhD: 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 currently editing a Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism. 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.
Please click here to download Dr. Bett's CV Please click here for Dr. Bett's office hours.
|