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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.
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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

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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Epistemology and Ethics in Sextus’ Outlines of Pyrrhonism: ἐποχή and ἀταραξία

Filozofia
This study examines the relationship between epistemology and ethics in Sextus Empiricus’ conception of Pyrrhonian Scepticism as presented in the Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις).
Grigoris Vasiliadis
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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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Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, Rationality

, 2022
This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did Pyrrhonism play an important part in the philosophical scene of the Hellenistic and Imperial age, but ...
Machuca, Diego Emanuel
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Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? [PDF]

, 2019
My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian scepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus?s extant works, has practical or epistemic value.
Machuca, Diego Emanuel
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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

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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