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Research on Scepticism in Brazilian Philosophy

Sententiae, 2023
Olexandr Lukovyna’s interview with Professor Plínio Junqueira Smith is devoted to skeptic research in Brazilian philosophy, the beginning of skeptic studies in Brazil, Oswaldo Porchat’s and Ezequiel de Olaso’s roles in establishing the tradition of ...
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Entre réhabilitation du scepticisme et critique du cartésianisme : Foucher lecteur du scepticisme académique

Astérion, 2013
Although the early modern renewal of scepticism is often reduced to that of pyrrhonism, it is important to not forget that academic scepticism was also revived at the end of the 17th century in the person of Simon Foucher. Foucher believed that Academism
Sébastien Charles
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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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No more this than that: skeptical impression or Pyrrhonian dogma? [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2017
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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Pyrrhonism, the Epistemology of Disagreement, the Nature of Rationality. Machuca, D. (2022). Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality. Cham: Springer.

Sententiae
Review of Machuca, D. (2022). Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality. Cham: Springer.
Oleksandr Lukovyna
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“CURING” PYRRHONIAN DOUBT: ANTI-SKEPTICAL RHETORIC IN THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY [PDF]

Societate şi Politică, 2012
By examining the analogies of sickness and disease used by severalopponents of philosophical skepticism (Pyrrhonism) in the early 18th century, this articlewill shed light on the rhetorical strategies used in attempts to undermine the revival ofthis ...
Anton MATYTSIN
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Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and Vice

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1466-1485, December 2025.
Abstract Recent approaches are unable to make full sense of Nietzsche's distinction between weak and strong skepticism (BGE 208–209; A54). In this paper, I propose an alternative interpretation. My suggestion is that this distinction is best understood in the context of his virtue epistemology.
Lorenzo Serini
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Bayle e o ceticismo antigo

Kriterion, 2007
Apresenta-se a interpretação oferecida por Bayle do ceticismo antigo: suas características, sua origem e a distinção entre pirrônicos e acadêmicos. Em seguida, discutem-se alguns aspectos importantes do ceticismo: sua concepção de ciência, sua conduta na
Plínio Junqueira Smith
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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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On the Motivations of a Skeptic, and Her Practice

Peitho, 2016
The aim of Pyrrhonism is deceptively simple: to achieve a state of ataraxia, of tranquility and relief from perturbation. But what is the extent of the ataraxia envisioned? Must the Skeptic admit a hard distinction between disturbances apparently related
Bryan Maddox
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