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Philosophy and biography

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 328-337, July 2024.
Abstract Does the biography of a philosopher have any relevance to assessing their philosophy? After considering and rejecting three distinct treatments of this question, a different answer is articulated here. Distinguishing between the content and approach of a philosophical text, this article argues that biography is relevant to assessing the ...
Paul O'Grady
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Philosophy and Everyday Life: Thompson Clarke and the Legacy of Skepticism [PDF]

, 2019
Philosophy and Everyday Life is the first monograph in English on the thought of Thompson Clarke (1928–2012). The essay has both (a) exegetical and (b) systematic ambitions.
Eichorn, Roger Edward
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Naturalizing skepticism

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 301-315, July 2024.
Abstract Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges.
Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
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Pessimism and Skepticism, Cartesian and Pyrrhonian [PDF]

This paper attempts to clarify and expand the analysis of philosophical pessimism by way of a productive analogy with philosophical skepticism. First, I advance the analogy: as skepticism is to knowledge, so pessimism is to hope. Second, I unpack several
Prescott, Paul Warden
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The argument from undecidable dissension

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
The five modes of suspension of judgment outlined by Sextus Empiricus (HP XV 164-188) coordinate a complex argumentative strategy to prompt the general suspension of judgment.
Hugo Enrique Sánchez López
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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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Doubt Undogmatized

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2000
It has become almost a conventional wisdom to argue that Cartesian scepticism poses a far more radical sceptical threat than its classical Pyrrhonian counterpart.
Duncan Pritchard
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Ancient Greek Skepticism [PDF]

Visitado el 2 de marzo de 2012Sumario: 1. Academic vs. Pyrrhonian Skepticism -- 2. Academic Skepticism -- a. Arcesilaus -- i. Platonic Innovator -- ii. Attack on the Stoics -- iii. On Suspending Judgment -- iv.
Thorsrud, Harald
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Sobre Contra os Gramáticos, de Sexto Empírico

DoisPontos, 2007
This paper wants to show some points on Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Grammarians. This research has been made with some questions in the horizon – frighten ones.
Ana Paula El-Jaick
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Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein [PDF]

, 2011
The following inquiry pursues two interlinked aims. The first is to understand Wittgenstein's idea of non-foundational certainty in the context of a reading of On Certainty that emphasizes its Pyrrhonian elements.
Bhattacharjee, Indrani
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