Richard Bett Explained
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 Greek philosophy, and has strong interests in ancient and modern ethics and epistemology, as well as Nietzsche.[3]
Books
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,
- Against the Logicians, Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
- "Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists", Cambridge University Press, 2012,, 9780521513913
External links
- pyrrho . Pyrrho . Bett . Richard.
Notes and References
- Web site: Richard Bett. 11 February 2013 .
- https://www.jstor.org/pss/30045184 "Minutes of the 2004 Eastern Division Executive Committee Meeting"
- Web site: Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: New "Philosophical Topics" Issue Devoted to Nietzsche. 15 May 2008.
