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Between Empiricism and Universal Scepticism: Notes on Two Contemporary Interpretive Models of the Gnoseology of Xenophanes of Colophon

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
This paper examines the two contemporary interpretation models of the philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon formulated by Hermann Fränkel and Ernst Heitsch.
Sebastian Śpiewak
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THE SYSTEMATIC USE OF THE FIVE MODES FOR THE SUSPENSION OF JUDGEMENT

Manuscrito, 2019
The five modes are a list of tools used by ancient sceptics to guide dogmatic people towards suspending their judgement. Attributed to Agrippa (of uncertain date) and used extensively by Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd century CE), these modes are still ...
DANIEL VÁZQUEZ
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Sextus Empiricus [electronic resource] /

, 2014
The three surviving works by Sextus Empiricus (c. 160-210 CE) are Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Against the Dogmatists, and Against the Professors. Their value as a source for the history of thought is especially that they represent development and formulation
Sextus, Empiricus,author., Bury, Robert Greggtranslator.   +1 more
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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
Protagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard, Saeed Bina-ye-Motlagh, Reza Koorang Beheshti, Amir Ehsan Karbasizadeh   +3 more
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Jules Vuillemin et la morale du pyrrhonisme

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2016
In the first part of his 1985 paper “Une morale est-elle compatible avec le scepticisme?”, Jules Vuillemin puts forward an interpretation of the scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis and asks whether this is compatible with an ethical life.
Lorenzo Corti
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Can an ancient Greek sceptic be eudaimôn (or happy)? And what difference does the answer make to us?

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2012
The paper explores how far the ancient Greek sceptics in fact accept, and how far they should accept, the central Greek ethical notion of eudaimonia, usually translated "happiness" - and what, if anything, the answers may tell us today. The first section
Richard Bett
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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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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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My Strategies for Dealing With Radical Psychotic Doubt: A Schizo-Something Philosopher's Tale. [PDF]

Schizophr Bull, 2023
Jeppsson SMI.
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"Przeciw etykom" Sekstusa Empiryka (Sextus Empiricus' "Against the ethicists")

, 2003
This is the introduction and the translation into Polish of the fragment from Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists (AM XI, 42-167)
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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