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Sekstus Empiryk – osoba i dzieła (Life and works of Sextus Empiricus)
This paper aims to present some basic information on life and work of Sextus ...
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief
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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Plutarch's Adversus Colotem and the Cyrenaics: 1120C-1121E
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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Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States
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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Testimonies on Plato’s Unwritten Dialectic
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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Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and Vice
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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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE CATALETTICA NELLA STOA POST-CRISIPPEA
The article aims to evaluate some appreciable contributions by post-Chrysippean Stoics to the theory of cognitive (kataleptic) impression and its role as a criterion of truth.
Francesca Alesse
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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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“Traktat "Przeciw retorom” Sekstusa Empiryka (Sextus Empiricus' treatise "Against the Rhetoricians")
This is the introduction and Polish translation of Sextus Empiricus "Against the Rhetoricians" (part) (Adversus Mathematicos book II)
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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