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Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Humean Skepticism

2020
AbstractRichard Popkin famously argued that David Hume “maintained the only consistent Pyrrhonian point of view”; yet Hume explicitly rejected Pyrrhonism, as he understood it, in favor of a mitigated “Academic” skepticism. The keys to understanding Hume’s relationship to Pyrrhonism lie partly in his own historical understanding of it, but even more in ...
Don Garrett
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On the Coherence of Pyrrhonian Skepticism

The Philosophical Review, 2001
In writing this essay, I have incurred great debts to two distinguished philosophers: Benson Mates, having agreed only to alert this complete stranger to any manifest blunders, entered instead into an extensive correspondence dense with penetrating insights; John Cooper read the penultimate draft with meticulous care and offered acute suggestions. I am
Bredo C. Johnsen
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Redeemed From Skepticism Nietzsche’s Revaluation of Inquiry (ζητϵῖν) and Tranquility (ἀταραξία) in Pyrrhonian Skeptics

Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2021
Friedrich Nietzsche offers different opinions of the ancient Skeptics. On certain occasions, he praises them as philosophers of intellectual integrity, because they constantly question dogma and co...
Jiani Fan
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Two Kinds of Knowledge

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2011
AbstractIn his Reflective Knowledge, Ernest Sosa offers a theory of knowledge, broadly virtue-theoretic in character, that is meant to transcend simple ways of contrasting "internalist" with "externalist" or "foundationalist" with "coherentist" approaches to knowledge and justification.
Michael Williams
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Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Mirror of Nature

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2013
ABSTRACTThis article discusses a problem that arises from Richard Rorty's use of both Kuhn and Davidson to criticize putative truth criteria. I argue that there is a conflict between the positions of Kuhn and Davidson that Rorty fails to notice. However, Rorty need not choose between them, for, ironically—since Rorty is in large part motivated by ...
S. Leach
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Hume's Pyrrhonian Skepticism and the Belief in Causal Laws

Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2001
L'A. examine la structure de l'argument sceptique radical de Hume concernant l'inference causale naturelle, d'une part, et defend la dualite theorique du penseur contre l'interpretation du scepticisme pyrrhonien comme vehicule de croyances naturelles moderees, d'autre part.
Graciela De Pierris
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Does Skepticism Lead to Tranquility? Exploring a Pyrrhonian Theme

2020
Abstract Pyrrhonian Skepticism, as described by Sextus Empiricus, has proven to be an influential philosophical tradition. However, little attention has been paid to the empirical claims that animate the Pyrrhonian project. This chapter aims to reverse that trend.
Mario Attie-Picker
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In Observance Of The Everyday: The Concept Of Assent In Pyrrhonian Skepticism

2016
This dissertation focuses on the philosophy of Sextus Empiricus (c. late 2nd Century CE), a skeptic who provides the most complete account of Pyrrhonian skepticism that survives from antiquity. In particular, this dissertation examines Sextus' account of skeptical assent, the attitude that structures and informs the life of the skeptic.
C. Roberts
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Conservatism and Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Syllecta Classica, 1996
Voula Tsouna-McKirahan
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Review: Pyrrhonian Skepticism

Mind, 2006
J. Barnes
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