tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914031138285965395.post592662017254838023..comments2023-10-24T03:33:39.613-05:00Comments on Bethel Philosophy Blog: Socratic ignoranceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914031138285965395.post-50808043095110962372008-12-17T14:13:00.000-06:002008-12-17T14:13:00.000-06:00Keith, thanks for posting your comment. Strange an...Keith, thanks for posting your comment. Strange and cool how Google ends up connecting people and their ideas!<BR/><BR/>You know, shortly after I posted that, a friend of mine back in California told me I should take a look at Vlastos’ article. It’s quite amazing that he’d be writing in that vein. I wonder if he had any encounters with Unger’s earlier stuff in Philosophical Relativity. Actually, Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05218086925083642874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914031138285965395.post-92035318526706047462008-12-17T13:03:00.000-06:002008-12-17T13:03:00.000-06:00Hi. Found you with a Google search. On "Socrates ...Hi. Found you with a Google search. <BR/><BR/>On "Socrates the contextualist?": <BR/>Gregory Vlastos had an important paper on just that topic:<BR/><BR/>Vlastos, Gregory 1985. "Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge," The Philosophical Quarterly 35: 1-31.<BR/><BR/>I recently wrote a book on epistemic contextualism (not out til about May), and, in giving a brief history of the idea, wrote this short Keith DeRosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12694783648335112581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914031138285965395.post-59656172121167242942008-11-01T22:34:00.000-05:002008-11-01T22:34:00.000-05:00A couple of things briefly. Dan's was a long post...A couple of things briefly. Dan's was a long post, and deserves a lot more than I will give it here. But this is what I will give it on a relatively warm Nov 1 evening.<BR/><BR/>I can't readily think of places in Plato's early (Socratic) dialogues (or even in the middle or late ones) where Socrates starts a sentence "I know that...." However, there are plenty of instances where he simply Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00947519148989309070noreply@blogger.com