Abstract

The English language version of Professor Van Steenberghen’s Epistémologie at present used was made from the second French edition of 1947, and appeared in 1949. That second edition already counted numerous modifications of the first, and the process of revision was further extended by the fourth French edition of 1966 to cover the entire extent of the text, though it did not change its content in any fundamental way. The new English version incorporates all of the author’s revisions, being based upon the latest edition; it is therefore much more than a mere re-presentation of the existing translation. Fr Moonan has retained a number of sections relatively unchanged from the first English version, but even these he has retouched in the interests of rendering the whole work homogeneous and uniform.