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2017
Sextus and his Pyrrhonian Skeptic colleagues were not skeptics as that term is now understood; they did not deny that we have knowledge. They neither asserted nor denied any statement about how things are, but assented only to statements about how things appeared to them to be, not least because it appeared to them that appearances sufficed as a guide ...
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Sextus and his Pyrrhonian Skeptic colleagues were not skeptics as that term is now understood; they did not deny that we have knowledge. They neither asserted nor denied any statement about how things are, but assented only to statements about how things appeared to them to be, not least because it appeared to them that appearances sufficed as a guide ...
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SEXTUS EMPIRICUS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF INQUIRY
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2008Abstract: In this paper I discuss Sextus Empiricus’ response to the dogmatists’ objection that the skeptics cannot inquire into philosophical theories and at the same time suspend judgment about everything. I argue that his strategy consists in putting the burden of proof on the dogmatists: it is they, and not the skeptics, who must justify the claim ...
Filip Grgić
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Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics
2015The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimens of sceptical philosophy. This volume redresses the balance by offering a series of in-depth studies on them, focusing in particular on their overall argumentative structure and on the various ways in which
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2012
Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as god, cause and effect, whole and part, bodies, place, motion, time, number, coming into being and perishing and is the most extensive surviving treatment of these topics by an ancient ...
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Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as god, cause and effect, whole and part, bodies, place, motion, time, number, coming into being and perishing and is the most extensive surviving treatment of these topics by an ancient ...
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Sextus Empiricus’ Style Of Writing
2011For, at variance with the 'official' Pyrrhonian attitude of universal suspension of judgment, a number of passages of Adversus Mathematicos (AM) XI ascribes to the Pyrrhonist both a type of negative dogmatism and a form of realism, which together amount to what may be called 'moderate ethical realism'.
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2002
Abstract The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission,
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Abstract The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission,
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Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus
2020AbstractPyrrhonian skepticism is defined by its commitment to inquiry. The Greek work skepsis means inquiry—not doubt, or whatever else later forms of skepticism took to be at the core of skeptical philosophy. The book proposes that Sextus Empiricus’s legacy in the history of epistemology is that he developed an epistemology of inquiry.
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Sextus Empiricus and Modern Empiricism
Philosophy of Science, 1941Although it is difficult to exaggerate the similarities between the philosophical doctrines of contemporary scientific empiricists and those which were expounded by Sextus Empiricus, the Greek physician and sceptic of the third century A. D., Sextus seems to have been neglected by most historians of empiricism. An account of his position may be of some
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Sextus Empiricus on the Goal of Skepticism
Ancient Philosophy, 2006In this paper I take a closer look at Sextus Empiricus’ arguments in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism I.25-30 and try to make sense of his account of Skepticism as a goal-directed philosophy. I argue that Sextus fails to mount a convincing case for the view that tranquility, rather than suspension of judgment, is the ultimate goal of his inquiries.
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