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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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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
doaj   +1 more source

¿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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Are Moral Judgements Semantically Uniform? A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Cognitivism - Non-Cognitivism Debate [PDF]

, 2019
Cognitivists and non-cognitivists in contemporary meta-ethics tend to assume that moral judgments are semantically uniform. That is, they share the assumption that either all moral judgments express beliefs, or they all express non-beliefs.
De Mesel, Benjamin
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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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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
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Diversity: A Philosophical Defense of Religious Inclusivism [PDF]

, 2010
Faced by the challenge of religious plurality, most philosophers of religion view pluralism and exclusivism as the most accepted and fully developed positions. The third alternative, the model of inclusivism, held especially within the Catholic tradition,
Irlenborn, Bernd
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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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