Robert J Hankinson

About

Robert J Hankinson is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy within the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic focus includes Ancient Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, and the History and Philosophy of Science. The information provided indicates his involvement in these areas, reflecting a broad expertise in foundational philosophical disciplines and their historical development.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Philosophy
• Epistemology
• Computer Security
• History
• Art history
• Astronomy
• Literature
• Physics
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021 · 27 citations

  In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things an…

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• Discovery, Method, and Justification

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022 · 15 citations

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  Galen insists that genuine epistêmê, in the Aristotelian sense of securely-founded scientific understanding, is available to the serious medical investigator. The foundations consist in propositions that are evidently true, and hence require no further support. These come in two types: those evident to the senses and those evident to reason, and these are ex heautôn pista, self-crediting, intrinsically trustworthy. On the basis of such propositions the diligent inquirer can erect a firmly-founde…

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• The Sceptical Inquirer

  History of philosophy & logical analysis · 2020 · 4 citations

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  Abstract This article treats of whether scepticism, in particular Pyrrhonian scepticism, can be said to deploy a method of any kind. I begin by distinguishing various different notions of method, and their relations to the concept of expertise (section 1). I then (section 2) consider Sextus’s account, in the prologue to Outlines of Pyrrhonism , of the Pyrrhonist approach, and how it supposedly differs from those of other groups, sceptical and otherwise. In particular, I consider the central clai…

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• Aristotle and the Mechanics of Desire

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2020-10-15 · 3 citations

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  This contribution comments on Aristotle’s <italic>De Motu Animalium</italic> 7 (second half) and 8 (MA 7, from 701b2 – MA 8). In this part of the treatise Aristotle focuses on the initiation and transformation of movement within the animal’s body; he presents a sequence of psycho-physical alterations, starting from sense perception, via thermic alterations (connected with episodes of desire) and expansions and contractions down the movement of the animal’s limbs. In doing so, Aristotle compares…

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• A Hymn to Nature: Structure, Function, Design and Beauty in Galen’s Biology

  2022-09-19 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Deborah Modrak

  290 shared

• Brad Graham

  Washington University in St. Louis

  290 shared

• Peter Bicknell

  University of Pittsburgh

  290 shared

• Michael Austin

  290 shared

• Richard Bett

  290 shared

• Luis Salas

  Washington University in St. Louis

  290 shared

• Phillip Mitsis

  290 shared

• Richard McKirahan

  290 shared

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