Are contemporary philosophers to follow Pyrrho of Elis in adopting his skeptic craft or at least core aspects of it as a reaction to the fact that, since immemorial times, persons have been engaged in disputes in metaphysics?
FELIPE G. A. MOREIRA
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Doubt Undogmatized:Pyrrhonian Scepticism, Epistemological Externalism and the "Metaepistemological" Challenge [PDF]
It has become almost a conventional wisdom to argue that Cartesian scepticism poses a far more radical sceptical threat than its classical Pyrrhonian counterpart.
Pritchard, Duncan
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Some blunt instruments of dogmatic logic: Sextus Empiricus’s sceptical attack [PDF]
Within a sort of conceptually homogeneous logical-epistemological arsenal that reflects a perspective marked by the dichotomy true/false, I would like to focus on one of the ‘logical’ sections of Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, book II, namely:
Emidio Spinelli
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«The Multiplicity of Agreeable Consciousness»
Samuel Johnson’s life was troubled by diverse physical diseases and – one year before his death – he experienced a stroke. Moreover, he suffered from recurring fits of depression.
Freiburg, Rudolf
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Claiming the Scientific High Ground: New Frontiers and Ancient Wisdoms in the Age of COVID-19. [PDF]
Chapman JR, Wiechert K, Wang JC.
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Contrastivism Rather Than Something Else? On The Limits Of Epistemic Contrastivism [PDF]
One of the most recent trends in epistemology is contrastivism. It can be characterized as the thesis that knowledge is a ternary relation between a subject, a proposition known and a contrast proposition.
Baumann, Peter
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Discovery of Hepatitis E and Its Impact on Global Health: A Journey of 44 Years about an Incredible Human-Interest Story. [PDF]
Khuroo MS.
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The Cradle of Humanity: A Psychological and Phenomenological Perspective [PDF]
We present an account of the evolutionary development of the experiences of empathy that marked the beginning of morality and art. We argue that aesthetic and moral capacities provided an important foundation for later epistemic developments.
Horne, Spencer, Montemayor, Carlos
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Are Moral Judgements Semantically Uniform? A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Cognitivism - Non-Cognitivism Debate [PDF]
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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Um estudo sobre a relação entre filosofia cética e criação ensaística em Michel de Montaigne
This article attempts to explore the Essays of Michel de Montaigne from a perspective that takes into account the close relation between philosophical thought and its literary expression.
Katarina Maurer Wolter
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