George Pappas

George Sotiros Pappas is a professor of philosophy at Ohio State University, born on May 4, 1942. His academic specializations include epistemology, the history of early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. He is of Greek and English heritage. Pappas is recognized for his work on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, contributing the entry on "Internalist versus Externalist" conceptions of epistemic justification. He co-edited "Essays on Knowledge and Justification" (1978), an influential anthology on the Gettier problem, and serves as an editorial consultant for Berkeley Studies. His scholarship on George Berkeley has been particularly notable, including his essay "Berkeley and Scepticism," which earned him the International Berkeley Prize in 1993. Pappas has proposed innovative interpretations of Berkeley's philosophy, such as the relationship between his anti-abstractionism and the "esse est percipi" principle. His monograph, "Berkeley's Thought" (2000), is considered a significant work on Berkeley's philosophy.