Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy
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

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This 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.

How to Be a Pyrrhonist
How to Be a Pyrrhonist

Author: Richard Bett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1108471072

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Explores what it was like to argue and to live as a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism.

Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition

Author: Jessica Berry

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0195368428

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This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.

The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy
The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy

Author: George Karamanolis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1107110157

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The first comprehensive study of the function and value of aporia, or puzzlement, as a key tool in ancient philosophical enquiry.

Belief and Truth
Belief and Truth

Author: Katja Maria Vogt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-09-20

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0199916810

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Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa — belief is "shameful." In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to share with Plato, ancient skeptics, and Stoic epistemologists.

Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification

Author: Robert J. Fogelin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0195089871

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This work examines contemporary theories in knowledge and justification. It presents an analysis of ordinary knowledge claims, showing that they are philosophically unproblematical. It then asks whether theories of justification meet the challenges raised by Empiricus' "Outlines of Pyrrhonism."

Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy
Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy

Author: Richard Bett

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780199256617

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In 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.

Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers
Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers

Author: Brian C. Ribeiro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9004465545

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Brian 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.

New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism
New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

Author: Diego E. Machuca

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9004207767

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Scholarship 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.

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism

Author: Sextus Empiricus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-07-20

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521778091

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Outlines 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.