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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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Doubt Undogmatized:Pyrrhonian Scepticism, Epistemological Externalism and the "Metaepistemological" Challenge [PDF]

, 2000
It has become almost a conventional wisdom to argue that Cartesian scepticism poses a far more radical sceptical threat than its classical Pyrrhonian counterpart.
Pritchard, Duncan
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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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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 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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Sextus Empiricus’ Moral Scepticism Revisited

Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi / Cilicia Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Pyrrhonism, named after the scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, as one of the significant philosophical doctrines in the history of philosophy, was revived by Aenesidemus and Agrippa, and defended by Sextus Empiricus, its last follower, against criticisms in the theoretical and practical contexts.
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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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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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