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The reading list for my major exam is as follows:

Plato

Primary Sources

Meno
Phaedo
Republic (Books 5-7, 10)
Theaetetus (Including Bunyeat’s introduction)
Sophist
Laches
Ion
Portions relevant to epistemology from the following dialogues:
Statesman
Gorgias
Phaedrus
Timaeus
Symposium

Secondary Sources

“Plato’s early theory of knowledge” — P. Woodruff (Epistemology, ed Stephen Everson)
“The Socratic Elenchus” — G. Vlastos. (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy I, 27-58.)
“Platonic Recollection” – D. Scott (Plato 1, ed by Gail Fine)
“Knowledge and Belief in Republic V-VII” — G. Fine (Epistemology, ed Stephen Everson)
“Knowledge is Perception” – M.F. Burnyeat (Plato 1, ed by Gail Fine)
An Introduction to Plato’s Republic – J. Annas (Chapters 8-11)
“Observations on Perception in Plato’s Later Dialogues” – M. Frede. (Plato 1, ed Gail Fine)
“Plato’s Refutation of Protagoras in the Theaetetus” – G. Fine (Plato 1, ed Gail Fine)

Aristotle

Primary Sources

Posterior Analytics
Nicomachean Ethics, book 6

Secondary Sources

“Aristotle’s epistemology” – C.C.W. Taylor (Epistemology, ed by S. Emerson)
“Aristotle on Understanding Knowledge” – M.F. Burnyeat (Aristotle on Science: The Posterior Analytics, edited by E. Berti)
“The Role of Nous in the Cognition of First Principles in Posterior Analytics II, 19.” -C. Kahn (Aristotle on Science: The Posterior Analytics, edited by E. Berti)
“An Aristotelian Way with Skepticism” -J Barnes (Aristotle Today, edited by M. Matthen)
“Dialectic and Philosophy in Aristotle” –C.D.C. Reeve (Method in Ancient Philosophy ed J. Gentzler)
“Plato and Aristotle on Division and Definition” – M. Deslauriers. (Ancient Philosophy, Fall 1990)
“Tithenai ta Phainomena” – G.E.L. Owen
“The Origins of Non-Deductive Inference” – M. Burnyeat. (Science and Speculation, ed J. Barnes.)
“Aristotle” – James Allen (Study 1 in Inference from Signs: ancient debates about the nature of evidence)

Hellenistic Philosophy

Primary Sources
The relevant passages of Long & Sedley
The relevant passages of Inwood & Gerson
Sextus Empiricus; Against the Logicians; transl. Richard Bett

Secondary Sources

Epicurean Epistemology

Epicurus’ Scientific Method by E. Asmis; parts 1-3
“Epicurus on the truth of sense impressions” – G. Striker. (Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics)
“Epicurus on the truth of the senses” – S. Everson (Epistemology, ed Stephen Everson)
“Epicurean Signs” – J. Barnes. (OSAP supplementary vol. 1988)

Stoic Epistemology

“Stoic Epistemology” – J. Annas (Epistemology, ed Stephen Everson)
“Kriterion tes aletheias” – G. Striker. (Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics)
“Ignorance and Opinion in Stoic Epistemology” -C. Meinwald. (Phronesis 2005.)
“Stoics and Sceptics on Clear and Distinct Impressions” -M. Frede. (Essays in Ancient Philosophy)
“The Stoics on Sign-inference and Demonstration” -J. Allen. (Study three in Inference from Signs: ancient debates about the nature of evidence”)

Skepticism

“Can the Skeptic Live his Skepticism?” M.F. Burnyeat. (The Original Skeptics, ed. Burnyeat and Frede)
“The Skeptic in his Place and Time” -M. Burnyeat (The Original Skeptics, ed. Burnyeat and Frede)
“The Sceptic’s Beliefs” – M. Frede (The Original Skeptics, ed. Burnyeat and Frede)
“The Skeptic’s two kinds of assent and the question of the possibility of knowledge” – M. Frede. (The Original Skeptics, ed. Burnyeat and Frede)
“The Beliefs of a Pyrrhonist” – J. Barnes. (The Original Skeptics, ed. Burnyeat and Frede)
“Some Ways of Skepticism” – J. Barnes (Epistemology, ed Stephen Everson)
“Differences between Academic and Pyrrhonic Scepticism” -G. Striker. (Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics)
“Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism: Sextus Empiricus’ Treatment of Sign Inference” -J. Allen. (Study 2 in Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence)

Cyrenaic Epistemology

Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School, -V. Tsouna

Ancient Epistemology in Modern Light

“Subjectivity, ancient and modern: the Cyreniacs, Sextus, and Descartes” – G. Fine. (Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy, ed J. Miller and B. Inwood.)
“Sextus and External World Scepticism” – G. Fine. (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2003)
“Idealism in Greek Philosophy” – M.F. Burnyeat. (Philosophical Review 1982, pp 3-40.)