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Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism [PDF]

, 2015
The skeptical challenge to politics is that if knowledge is in short supply and it is a condition for the proper use of political power, then there is very little just politics.
Aikin, Scott
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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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What is wrong with lekta? Ancient critics of Stoic logic and language

Methodos, 2019
In this paper, the Stoic theory of lekta is presented from the point of view of three main critical responses: the Peripatetics, Sextus Empiricus and an internal challenge posed by Seneca. The critiques focus on questions about language, but the detailed
Ada Bronowski
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Scetticismo e ricerca della verità. Nota sul termine ζήτησις in Sesto Empirico [PDF]

, 2016
This paper argues that Sceptic philosophers’ search for the truth is different from the Dogmatic one: the Sceptics indeed investigate the truth of Dogmatic philosophers’ theories.
Catapano, Massimo
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ANCORA SULLO STATUTO VERITATIVO DELLA SENSAZIONE IN EPICURO

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2018
The main goals of this article are, on the one hand, to show the peculiar features of the Epicurean view of sense-perception (aisthesis), the first criterion of truth of Epicurus’ canonic; and, on the other hand, to critically discuss a recent ...
Francesco Verde
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Skeptical Fideism in Cicero’s De Natura Deorum [PDF]

, 2019
The work of Richard H. Popkin both introduced the concept of skeptical fideism and served to impressively document its importance in the philosophies of a diverse range of thinkers, including Montaigne, Pascal, Huet, and Bayle.
Ribeiro, Brian
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The Experience by Proxy: Hypotyposis and Historical Narrative from Antiquity to the Renaissance [PDF]

, 2016
As long as history was considered as magistrae uitae, it was necessary to give the readers the impression that they were seeing the recounted events and taking part in them, so that they could live them by proxy and gain from the experience of others ...
Zangara, Adriana
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The Evidence in Ancient Philosophy

Azafea: Revista de Filosofía, 2014
Enargeia became a technical term –to which Cicero coined the neologism evidentia for its translation– in the Hellenistic Epistemology, so it seems, beginning from Epicurus.
Javier AOIZ
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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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Scientific Realism, Adaptationism and the Problem of the Criterion [PDF]

, 2015
Scientific Realism (SR) has three crucial aspects: 1) the centrality of the concept of truth, 2) the idea that success is a reliable indicator of truth, and 3) the idea that the Inference to the Best Explanation is a reliable inference rule.
Sterpetti, Fabio
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