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Pyrrhonian Skepticism Meets Speech-Act Theory [PDF]
This paper applies speech-act theory to craft a new response to Pyrrhonian skepticism and diagnose its appeal. Carefully distinguishing between different levels of language-use and noting their interrelations can help us identify a subtle mistake in a key Pyrrhonian argument.
John E. Turri, Jr.
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Wittgensteinian Epistemology, Epistemic Vertigo, and Pyrrhonian Skepticism [PDF]
AbstractIn On Certainty, Wittgenstein offers a radical conception of the structure of rational evaluation, such that all rational evaluations are essentially local in that they necessarily occur relative to arational hinge certainties. Support is canvassed for the following claims: (1) that a Wittgensteinian epistemology, while the antidote to a ...
Duncan Pritchard
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No more this than that: skeptical impression or Pyrrhonian dogma? [PDF]
This is a defense of Pyrrhonian skepticism against the charge that the suspension of judgment based on equipollence is vitiated by the assent given to the equipollence in question.
Necip Fikri Alican
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The invention of a “school sceptical” pyrrhonist and radical [PDF]
The history of skepticism is obscure and confusing. While recognizing the existence, mysterious and controversial, a Platonic academic skepticism, there are some doubts about the reality of a school Pyrrhonist unequivocal radical. In this article we will
Ramón Román Alcalá
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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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Review of Bett, R. (2019). How to Be a Pyrrhonist: The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism.
Vladyslav Artiushenko
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertiuss report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogeness report as well as core questions in recent ...
Richard Bett +6 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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La naturalidad del escepticismo
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. I admit that this strategy is
Jesus Antonio Coll Mármol
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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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