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Boundless Skepticism and the Five Modes [PDF]

, 2019
There is a difference between the tasks of interpreting Sextus Empiricus and contesting his arguments. Usually, one does the latter relying on some version of the former. Though this seems obvious, it is easy to make mistakes in this endeavor.
Rocha, Allysson V. L.
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Escepticismo y anti-intelectualismo: una revisión del ideal socrático desde la perspectiva pirrónica

Tópicos, 2014
The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, I argue directly for the thesis according to which, skepticism and anti-intellectualism associated with Pyrrhonism constitute a radical rejection of what I refer to in this paper as “the Socratic ideal” –a ...
Jorge Ornelas
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Taking Skepticism Seriously: How the Zhuang-Zi Can Inform Contemporary Epistemology [PDF]

, 2017
This paper explores a few of the ways that the Zhuang-Zi can inform contemporary analytic epistemology. I begin, in section 1, by briefly outlining and summarizing the case for my fictionalist interpretation of the text.
CHUNG, Julianne
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How to Define the Notion of Knowledge which Solves the Gettier Problem [PDF]

, 2016
Our contention is that to solve the Gettier Problem, a notion of infallible knowledge involving the substantial truth theory is necessary. We assume that acts of sense experience have propositional content, and that atomic empirical propositions need the
Misiuna, Krystyna
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Skepticism and Disagreement [PDF]

, 2011
Though ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism is apparently based on disagreement, this aspect of skepticism has been widely neglected in contemporary discussion on skepticism.
Lammenranta, Markus
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La naturalidad del escepticismo

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2012
In this article I examine M. Williams’ antisceptical strategy of considering skepticism as an unnatural position philosophically charged, which for him implies that skepticism has nothing to do with our epistemic practices.
Jesús Antonio Coll Mármol
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Strategy, Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Allure of Madness

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Justin Garson introduces the distinction between two views on Madness we encounter again and again throughout history: Madness as dysfunction, and Madness as strategy.
Sofia Jeppsson, Paul Lodge
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Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? [PDF]

, 2019
My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian skepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant works, has practical or epistemic value.
Machuca, Diego E.
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A Critical Examination of BonJour’s, Haack’s, and Dancy’s Theory of Empirical Justification [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, we shall describe and critically evaluate four contemporary theories which attempt to solve the problem of the infinite regress of reasons: BonJour's ‘impure’ coherentism, BonJour's foundationalism, Haack's ‘foundherentism’ and Dancy's ...
Christias, Dionysis
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Jules Vuillemin et la morale du pyrrhonisme

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2016
In the first part of his 1985 paper “Une morale est-elle compatible avec le scepticisme?”, Jules Vuillemin puts forward an interpretation of the scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis and asks whether this is compatible with an ethical life.
Lorenzo Corti
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