Bøger i Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy serien

Can the intellect or intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This work explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection - an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical thought.

In its discussion of various theories of knowledge, this text explores several areas: the general idea underlying modal epistemology; modal theories and warranted belief; tracking dispositionality; masking, mimicking and altering; and a dispositional theory and warranted belief.