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Boundless Skepticism and the Five Modes [PDF]

, 2019
There is a difference between the tasks of interpreting Sextus Empiricus and contesting his arguments. Usually, one does the latter relying on some version of the former. Though this seems obvious, it is easy to make mistakes in this endeavor.
Rocha, Allysson V. L.
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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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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.
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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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]

, 2018
We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith,
JOHNSON, Monte Ransome, SHULTS, Brett
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Epicurus and Aesthetic Disinterestedness [PDF]

, 2017
: Aesthetic disinterestedness is one of the central concepts in aesthetics, and Jerome Stolnitz, the most prominent theorist of disinterestedness in the 20th century, has claimed that (i) ancient thinkers engagement with this notion was cursory and ...
Aiste, Celkyte
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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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Evidentialism, justification, and knowledge‐first

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 1, Page 22-46, March 2025.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between evidentialism, knowledge‐first epistemology, (E=K) in particular, and justification. Evidentialism gives an account of justified belief in terms of evidence but is silent on the nature of evidence. Knowledge‐first tells us what evidence is but stands in need of an agreed account of justification. So
Alexander Bird
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Descartes and Skepticism [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, I present an interpretation of Descartes that deemphasizes his skepticism. I analyze a selection of remarks from Descartes’ correspondence in which he makes judgments about the skeptics.
Sachdev, Raman
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.
Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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Some blunt instruments of dogmatic logic: Sextus Empiricus’s sceptical attack [PDF]

, 2017
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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