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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,
ISBN
978-0-19-823620-7
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Against the Logicians, Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
ISBN
978-0-521-53195-5
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"Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists", Cambridge University Press, 2012,
ISBN
052151391X, 9780521513913
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