Richard Arnot Home Bett holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

. He received his BA from

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to th ...

and his PhD from

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

. He spent 1994-5 as a Fellow at the

Center for Hellenic Studies The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is a research institute for classics located in Washington, D.C. at 3100 NW Whitehaven Street. It is affiliated with Harvard University. Nestled in Rock Creek Park behind Embassy Row, the Center for Hell ...

, Washington, D.C. From January 2000 to June 2001 he was Acting Executive Director of the

American Philosophical Association The American Philosophical Association (APA) is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarl ...

, and he was Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division from 2003 to 2013. Professor Bett specializes in ancient

Greek philosophy Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC, marking the end of the Greek Dark Ages. Greek philosophy continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Greece and most Greek-inhabited lands were part of the Roman Empi ...

, and has strong interests in ancient and modern

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...

and

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epis ...

, as well as

Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his car ...

Books

''Pyrrho, His Antecedents and His Legacy''
Oxford University Press, 2000,
''The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism''
Editor Richard Bett, Cambridge University Press, 2010,

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 ''Acta Philosophica'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1992. The editor-in-chief is Francesco Russo (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross). The journal publishes articles in Italian, English, Spanish, and Fren ...

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

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bett, Richard Johns Hopkins University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Philosophers from Maryland University of California, Berkeley alumni