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On Pyrrhonian Ends and Choices. A Comparative Analysis of DL 9.107-8 and M 11.141-67 [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2015
The article provides a comparative analysis of the final paragraphs of Diogenes Laertius’ Life of Pyrrho (9.107-8) and a chapter from the Adversus ethicos by Sextus Empiricus (M 11.[5].141-67).
Alfonso Correa Motta
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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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Nothing to Fear from this Thought: Montaigne, Pyrrhonism, and Reformation

Ideas y Valores, 2014
M. de Montaigne was a child of both the Renaissance and the Reformation, as well as a lucid follower of Sextus Empiricus. The article shows how Pyrrhonism led him to question the beliefs of his time and to abide by the prevailing customs and laws.
Manuel Tizziani
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Responsibility for Attitudes, Object-Given Reasons, and Blame [PDF]

, 2020
I argue that the problem of responsibility for attitudes is best understood as a puzzle about how we are responsible for responding to our object-given reasons for attitudes – i.e., how we are responsible for being (ir)rational. The problem can be solved,
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Pyrrhonism, Inquiry, and Rationality [PDF]

Elenchos, 2013
Abstract In this paper, I critically engage with Casey Perin's interpretation of Sextan Pyrrhonism in his recent book, The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism. From an approach that is both exegetical and systematic, I explore a number of issues concerning the Pyrrhonist's inquiry into truth, his alleged commitment to ...
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Montaigne et les Academica de Cicéron

Astérion, 2013
In this paper, I offer a reconsideration of the question about the relation between pyrrhonism and Academic skepticism in Montaigne’s Essais. I argue that he had taken from the start these two skeptical tendencies as rather similar and even compatible ...
Luiz Eva
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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]

, 2018
We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith,
JOHNSON, Monte Ransome, SHULTS, Brett
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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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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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Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism [PDF]

, 2015
The skeptical challenge to politics is that if knowledge is in short supply and it is a condition for the proper use of political power, then there is very little just politics.
Aikin, Scott
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