Pyrrho's Path and the Equanimous Life
The shadowy figure of Pyrrho has been intriguing modern scholars ever since the outlines of his thought were rediscovered in the sixteenth century, most notably by Michel de Montaigne. The academic approach to the Pyrrhonian legacy has been complicated,
Daniel Pellerin
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Trading One Kind of Dogmatism for Another: Comments on Williams Criticism of Aggripan Scepticism
M. Williams’ analysis (1999, 2001 and 2004b) of the Prior Grounding Conception (PGC) of epistemic justification — a conception allegedly behind the Agrippan trilemma — is reviewed and it is contrasted with the Default Challenge Conception of ...
Armando Cíntora, Jorge Ornelas
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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]
Protagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard +3 more
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THE SKEPTICAL CARTESIAN BACKGROUND OF HUME'S "OF THE ACADEMICAL OR SCEPTICAL PHILOSOPHY" (FIRST INQUIRY, SECTION 12) [PDF]
In section XII of the First Inquiry, Hume refers to the two Hellenistic schools of skepticism (Academic and Pyrrhonian) to present his own view of skepticism, which, however, depends on the ancient skeptics mainly indirectly.
José R. Maia Neto
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Sextovo pojetí pyrrhónské skepse jako nedogmatický způsob každodenního života
The paper examines Sextus’ concept of Pyrrhonian Scepticism, as presented in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις). Contemporary scholarship is in disagreement as to the appropriate meaning of Sextus’ work: whether the Sceptic suspends ...
Grigoris Vasiliadis
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Pyrrhonian doubt in Russian religious philosophy of the first half of the 20th century: P. A. Florensky, L. P. Karsavin, Ya. S. Druskin [PDF]
The article studies the conceptualisation of doubt in the works of Pavel Florensky, Lev Karsavin, and Yakov Druskin and argues for a signifi cant similarity and genetic continuity of their approaches.
Ruslan Kraev
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Doubt Undogmatized:Pyrrhonian Scepticism, Epistemological Externalism and the "Metaepistemological" Challenge [PDF]
It has become almost a conventional wisdom to argue that Cartesian scepticism poses a far more radical sceptical threat than its classical Pyrrhonian counterpart.
Pritchard, Duncan
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González, Catalina. Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphysics. Springer, 2022. Manuel Alejandro Cortés Silva-Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá. Ornelas, Jorge, comp. Rústicos versus urbanos.
Manuel Alejandro Cortés Silva +2 more
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On Pyrrhonian Ends and Choices. A Comparative Analysis of DL 9.107-8 and M 11.141-67 [PDF]
The article provides a comparative analysis of the final paragraphs of Diogenes Laertius’ Life of Pyrrho (9.107-8) and a chapter from the Adversus ethicos by Sextus Empiricus (M 11.[5].141-67).
Alfonso Correa Motta
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Dretske on Self-Knowledge and Contrastive Focus: How to Understand Dretske’s Theory, and Why It Matters [PDF]
Dretske’s theory of self-knowledge is interesting but peculiar and can seem implausible. He denies that we can know by introspection that we have thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
Roche, Michael, Roche, William
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