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The modes of Agrippa: On the refutation of the ground of all knowledge
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2017 The modes expounded by the ancient sceptics became a point of reference for those who try to prove, reach any truth or justify any belief. Due to it, this paper analyses the objections of the sceptic philosophers later to Aenesidemus and previous to ...
Ignacio García Peña
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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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Commentary on the Ukrainian translation of Sextus Empiricus' "Outlines on Pyrrhonism" (I, 1-13)
Sententiae, 2021 Some terms from Outlines of Pyrrhonism (I: 1-13) are problematic for Ukrainian translation. The commentary justifies the Ukrainian equivalents for those terms, in particular, "uyavlennia" for phantasia (not "vrazhennia"!), "pidvplyvnyi stan" for pathos ...
Oleg Khoma
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, 2016 La più aggiornata voce enciclopedica su Sesto Empirico, dal punto di vista sia bio-bibliografio che dell'orientamento filosoficoThe most updated encyclopedic entry on Sextus Empiricus from the point of view both of his bio-bibliographical data and his ...
Emidio Spinelli, SPINELLI, EMIDIO
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Sententiae, 2023 Review of Kuzminski, A. (2021). Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction. London & New York: Routledge.
Olena Kalantarova
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External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 285-297, September 2026.ABSTRACT External‐world skepticism challenges, among other things, the epistemic credentials of beliefs about other people. Some external‐world skeptics deny that I know my loved ones exist; some claim that my belief that my loved ones exist is epistemically impermissible. However, abandoning this belief would be highly unattractive.
James Fritz
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Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 379-393, September 2026.ABSTRACT Contemporary epistemologists typically read Descartes’ dream argument as an argument for external world skepticism. This paper argues that Descartes’ own development of the issues suggests otherwise and enquires into the reasons for this divergence.
Mario Schärli
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Plutarch's Adversus Colotem and the Cyrenaics: 1120C-1121E
Aitia, 2013 A reading of Plutarch’s Adversus Colotem, 1120C-1121E, with reference to other surviving evidence for Cyrenaic epistemology. In particular, the discussion evaluates two claims made by Plutarch: (1) that Colotes is right to argue ...
James Warren
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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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Testimonies on Plato’s Unwritten Dialectic
Peitho, 2015 The present account – conducted in the paradigm of the recent approach to Plato – comprises a new translation with a short introduction and source bibliography. It consists of three major parts: I.
Marian Andrzej Wesoły
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