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Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? [PDF]

, 2019
My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian skepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant works, has practical or epistemic value.
Machuca, Diego E.
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Following Sextus: Demonstrative Argument in Gorgias’ Peri tou mē ontos

Peitho, 2018
The two extant versions of Gorgias’ Peri tou mē ontos (PTMO) have been preserved by an anonymous author (MXG) and by Sextus Empiricus (S.E.). Both versions have been differently interpreted by scholars who examine either the doctrine or the rhetorical ...
Stefania Giombini
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Cartesian Humility and Pyrrhonian Passivity: The Ethical Significance of Epistemic Agency [PDF]

, 2016
While the Academic sceptics followed the plausible as a criterion of truth and guided their practice by a doxastic norm, so thinking that agential performances are actions for which the agent assumes responsibility, the Pyrrhonists did not accept ...
Gómez-Alonso, Modesto
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El escepticismo en el pensamiento político e histórico de David Hume [PDF]

, 2018
This essay argues that Hume’s political and historical thought is well read as skeptical and skeptical in a way that roots it deeply in the Hellenistic traditions of both Pyrrhonian and Academical thought. It deploys skeptical instruments to undermine
Fosl, Peter S.
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Huet sceptique cartésien [PDF]

, 2008
Pierre-Daniel Huet est un des sceptiques les plus importants de la fin du XVIIe siècle et du début du XVIIIe siècle. Dans cet article, je cherche à montrer en six points que la principale source du scepticisme de Huet est paradoxalement Descartes, chaque
Maia Neto, José R.
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Dialecticians and Stoics on the Classification of Propositions [PDF]

, 1993
This paper discusses the reports in Diogenes Laertius and in Sextus Empiricus concerning the classification of propositions. It is argued that the material in Sextus uses a source going back to the Dialectical school whose most prominent members were ...
Ebert, Theodor
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The argument from undecidable dissension

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
The five modes of suspension of judgment outlined by Sextus Empiricus (HP XV 164-188) coordinate a complex argumentative strategy to prompt the general suspension of judgment.
Hugo Enrique Sánchez López
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Los condicionales y la cuantificación universal: una relación lógica y psicológica [PDF]

, 2018
In classical logic, it is evident that there is a clear relationship between the conditional, which is materially interpreted, and the universally quantified sentences.
López Astorga, Miguel
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Jules Vuillemin, le pyrrhonisme et Carnéade

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2016
The purpose of this article is to analyze the place of the New Academy in the classification of Scepticism elaborated by Jules Vuillemin. In his 1985 paper “Une morale est-elle compatible avec le scepticisme?”, Vuillemin distinguished four types of ...
Carlos Lévy
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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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