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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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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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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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What do we do when we suspend judgement?

Philosophical Issues, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 253-270, October 2024.
Abstract According to a classical view, suspension of judgement is, like belief and disbelief, a cognitive state. However, as some authors (Crawford 2022; Lord 2020; McGrath 2021a, 2021b; Sosa 2019, 2021) have pointed out, to suspend judgement is also to perform a certain mental action.
Anne Meylan
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophy Untouched by Science? Zeno’s Runner, Sextus’ Epochē, and More

Philosophies
The relationship between science and philosophy is contentious. Quine saw philosophy as continuous with science (broadly understood), but many philosophers see a dichotomy between them.
Josef Mattes
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¿Es Sexto Empírico un protagórico?

Tópicos, 2013
In the Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus advances an argument similar to Descartes' dream, which seems commit Sextus to some sort of Protagorean relativism.
Claudia Lorena García
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The Role of Skeptical Evidence in the First and Second “Meditations”. Article 1. The Doubt according to Descartes and Sextus Empiricus

Sententiae, 2016
The first article of the cycle “The role of skeptical evidence in the First and Second ‘Meditations’” compares the Cartesian and Sextus Empiricus’ concepts of doubt in, respectively, “Metaphysical meditations” and “Outlines of Pyrrhonism”.
Oleg Khoma
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Wittgenstein and pyrrhonism

Cuadernos salmantinos de filosofía, 2022
The aim of this paper is to assess Wittgenstein’s later philosophy relation to skepticism. Despite the fact that he explicitly rejects it, it is argued that his conception of philosophy has strong affinities to ancient Pyrrhonism, and not to Human skepticism, as some claim.
openaire   +1 more source

O Neopirronismo, os Problemas Filosóficos e o Pragmatismo

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 1999
In his interesting, original and well organized paper "O Ceticismo Pirrônico e os Problemas Filosóficos" Oswaldo Porchat Pereira reinterprets ancient Pyrrhonism and claims a new domain for the philosophical activity, namely the "phenomenic" one.
Paulo R. Margutti
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From Pyrrho to Sextus Empiricus: The Philosophical Roots of Postmodern Political Theory in Ancient Greek Skepticism

Philosophies
In this article, the philosophical (critical) continuity between ancient Greek skepticism (Pyrrhonism) and postmodern political theory is pointed out.
Ziya Kıvanç Kıraç, Fırat Kargıoğlu, Oğuzhan Göktolga   +2 more
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