The work of Aristotle (384-322 BC) is considered to be one of the
great achievements of the ancient world, and is a foundation of
both Western and Middle Eastern philosophy and science. Although
Aristotle left significant material on almost all branches of
learning, what has survived is a somewhat disorganized collection
of notes and lectures. Moreover, the centuries of interpretation
across various epochs and cultures tend to cloud our understanding
of him. Thomas Kiefer breaks through this cloud of interpretation
and provides an organized account of one key part of Aristotle's
philosophy, namely his theory of knowledge. This theory concerns
what is knowledge, what we can know, and how we can do so. Kiefer's
book is the first work that takes this theory as its sole focus and
reconstructs it systematically. Kiefer's work throughout provides
many new interpretations of key parts of Aristotle's philosophy,
including an unnoticed -but crucial-distinction between knowledge
in general and knowledge for us, the differences between his
semantic and psychological requirements for knowledge, and 'nous',
which is perhaps the most obscure notion in Aristotle's work. He
also concludes with a summary of Aristotle's theory in the terms
and style of contemporary epistemology. Kiefer's work should be of
interest to anyone involved in the history of philosophy or
contemporary epistemology.
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