Epistemology and Worldview Throughout History

Below are links to my series of posts on the history of epistemological thought and philosophical worldviews.  This series of posts is a long-term work in progress.

I introduce the series in the following posts:

• Epistemology in History
• Epistemology in (Western) History: From Hesiod to Hoppe.

I am currently discussing the epistemological thought of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod.

• The Inspiration of Hesiod introduces the poet.

The following six posts summarize his mythological and cosmological poem the Theogony.

• Introducing the Theogony
• The Cosmology of Hesiod
• History in the Theogony
• Human Nature in the Theogony
• Ethics in the Theogony

And the next three posts search for an implied epistemology in the Theogony.

• The Epistemology of Divine Poetry
• Hesiod and Aristotelean Demonstration
• Night, Day, and Induction

I also have two short posts discussing the epistemology of Hesiod's other great work, the Works and Days.

• Introducing Works and Days
• Inductive Practical Astronomy

And here are two posts discussing, respectively, Homer and Thales.

• Divination in the Iliad
• Thales and Deductive Geometry

The next three posts characterize three distinct ancient worldviews.

• The Worldview of the Theologos
• The Worldview of the Physiologos
• The Worldview of the Metaphysical Dualist

I discuss the common inductive epistemology of the above three worldviews in Induction in Ancient Greek Thought.

I discuss the advent of ontology, which had a profound effect on epistemology, in The Ontological Revolution: The Proto-Skepticism of Heraclitus.

I discuss the advent of rationalism in The Ontological Counterrevolution: Parmenides, the First Extreme Rationalist.