Richard Arnot Home Bett holds a joint appointment in Philosophy

Philosophy

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 and Classics

Classics

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 at the Johns Hopkins University.
He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. He spent 1994-5 as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies

Center for Hellenic Studies

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

American Philosophical Association

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, and he is currently Secretary-Treasurer of its Eastern Division.

Professor Bett specializes in ancient Greek philosophy

Greek philosophy

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, and has strong interests in ancient and modern ethics

Ethics

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 and epistemology, as well as Nietzsche.

Books

• Pyrrho, His Antecedents and His Legacy, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 9780198250654
• "Pyrrho", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006
• The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Editor Richard Bett, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 9780521697545

Articles

• “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 9780198236207
• Against the Logicians, Sextus (Empiricus.), Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521531955

External links

• "Things I've Learned with Richard Bett, professor of philosophy", Johns Hopkins Newsletter, Ming Wen, 11/15/07