Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His publications include Epistemology's Paradox (1992), Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (2001), How to Know (2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (2016).

This is a scholarly yet accessible volume, blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents.

CONTENTS

Preface and acknowledgements

List of contributors

1. Philosophical greatness: Introducing the very idea

Stephen Hetherington

2. Plato, Platonism, and the history of philosophy

Lloyd P. Gerson

3. Zhuangzi's suggestiveness: Sceptical questions

Karyn Lai

4. Aristotle as systematic philosopher: Essence, necessity, and explanation in theory and practice

David Bronstein

5. Attention to greatness: Buddhaghosa

Jonardon Ganeri

6. Aquinas's complex web

Jeffrey Hause

7. Descartes as a great philosopher: Comprehensive physics, mechanistic embodiment, and methodological systematicity

Gary Hatfield

8. Émilie du Châtelet on women's minds and education

Karen Detlefsen

9. What's so great about Hume?

Don Garrett

10. Is Kant a great moral philosopher?

Allen Wood

11. 'How is metaphysics possible?' Kant's great question and his great answer

Nicholas F. Stang

12. Nietzsche: This time it's personal

Ken Gemes

13. What makes Peirce a great philosopher?

Cheryl Misak

14. Wittgenstein's un-ruley solution to the problem of philosophy

David Macarthur