How to Be a Pyrrhonist
Author: Richard Bett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-21
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108471072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores what it was like to argue and to live as a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism.
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Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism
Author: Sextus Empiricus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-07-20
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521778091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutlines of Scepticism, by the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, is a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy. It is the fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, and it is also one of our most copious sources of information about the other Hellenistic philosophies. Its first part contains an elaborate exposition of the Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; its second and third parts are critical and destructive, arguing against 'dogmatism' in logic, epistemology, science and ethics - an approach that revolutionized the study of philosophy when Sextus' works were rediscovered and published in the sixteenth century. This volume presents the accurate and readable translation which was first published in 1994, together with a substantial new historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Barnes.
Timon of Phlius
Author: Dee L. Clayman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-12-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3110220814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragments of Timon’s works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth’s edition of 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed as literature, rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon’s work specifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with a definition of “Skeptical aesthetics” that places many of the characteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.
Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy
Author: Diego E. Machuca
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-07-17
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9400719914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first collection of original essays entirely devoted to a detailed study of the Pyrrhonian tradition. The twelve contributions collected in the present volume combine to offer a historical and systematic analysis of the form of skepticism known as “Pyrrhonism”. They discuss whether the Pyrrhonist is an ethically engaged agent, whether he can claim to search for truth, and other thorny questions concerning ancient Pyrrhonism; explore its influence on certain modern thinkers such as Pierre Bayle and David Hume; and examine Pyrrhonian skepticism in relation to contemporary analytic philosophy.
Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers
Author: Brian C. Ribeiro
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9004465545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrian C. Ribeiro’s Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers invites us to view the Pyrrhonist tradition as involving all those who share a commitment to the activity of Pyrrhonizing and develops fresh, provocative readings of Sextus, Montaigne, and Hume as radical Pyrrhonizing skeptics.
Pyrrhonian Skepticism
Author: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-07-22
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0198037953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or Academic skepticism, which makes the radical claim that nobody can know anything. However, this version of skepticism is something of a straw man, since virtually no philosopher endorses this radical skeptical claim. The only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently, Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics do not assert Cartesian skepticism, but neither do they deny it. The Pyrrhonian skeptics' doubts run so deep that they suspend belief even about Cartesian skepticism and its denial. Nonetheless, some Pyrrhonians argue that they can still hold "common beliefs of everyday life" and can even claim to know some truths in an everyday way. This edited volume presents previously unpublished articles on this subject by a strikingly impressive group of philosophers, who engage with both historical and contemporary versions of Pyrrhonian skepticism. Among them are Gisela Striker, Janet Broughton, Don Garrett, Ken Winkler, Hans Sluga, Ernest Sosa, Michael Williams, Barry Stroud, Robert Fogelin, and Roy Sorensen. This volume is thematically unified and will interest a broad spectrum of scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy.
Greek Buddha
Author: Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0691176329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archaeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history
New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism
Author: Diego E. Machuca
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9004207767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist’s stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus’ discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.
The Demands of Reason
Author: Casey Perin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-04-22
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 019955790X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCasey Perin presents a new interpretation of key ideas and arguments in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism, a founding text of the Sceptical tradition in philosophy. Perin examines Sextus' commitment to the search for truth and to certain principles of rationality, the scope of his scepticism, and its consequences for action and agency.
Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy
Author: Richard Bett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780199256617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the absence of surviving works by Pyrrho, scholars have tended to treat his thought as essentially the same as the long subsequent sceptical tradition. This text offers a different interpretation of his thought.
