The Demands of Reason

The Demands of Reason
Author: Casey Perin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019955790X

Casey 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.

Five Modes of Scepticism

Five Modes of Scepticism
Author: Stefan Sienkiewicz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192519271

Five Modes of Scepticism examines the argument forms that lie at the heart of Pyrrhonian scepticism as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus. These are the Agrippan modes of disagreement, hypothesis, infinite regression, reciprocity and relativity; modes which are supposed to bring about that quintessentially sceptical mental state of suspended judgement. Stefan Sienkiewicz analyses how the modes are supposed to do this, both individually and collectively, and from two perspectives. On the one hand there is the perspective of the sceptic's dogmatic opponent and on the other there is the perspective of the sceptic himself. Epistemically speaking, the dogmatist and the sceptic are two different creatures with two different viewpoints. The book elucidates the corresponding differences in the argumentative structure of the modes depending on which of these perspectives is adopted. Previous treatments of the modes have interpreted them from a dogmatic perspective; one of the tasks of the present work is to reorient the way in which scholars have traditionally engaged with the modes. Sienkiewicz advocates moving away from the perspective of the sceptic's opponent - the dogmatist - towards the perspective of the sceptic and trying to make sense of how the sceptic can come to suspend judgement on the basis of the Agrippan modes.

How to Be a Pyrrhonist

How to Be a Pyrrhonist
Author: Richard Bett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108471072

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

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism
Author: Sextus Empiricus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-07-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521778091

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.

Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus

Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus
Author: Katja Maria Vogt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019094630X

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity, providing a model of skeptical philosophy that remains significant to this day. This volume collects essays discussing Sextus's influence in the history of modern philosophy as well as contemporary engagements with Sextus's version of Pyrrhonian skepticism.

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians
Author: Sextus (Empiricus)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005-12-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521531955

A new and accurate translation of an important work of ancient Greek scepticism.

Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers

Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers
Author: Brian C. Ribeiro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004465545

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.

The Original Sceptics

The Original Sceptics
Author: Myles Burnyeat
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872203471

This is a collection of five essays debating the nature and scope of ancient scepticism, and providing an introduction to the thought of the original sceptics. The book seeks to shed new light on how their thought relates to sceptical arguments in modern philosophy.

Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition

Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
Author: Jessica Berry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195368428

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.

Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
Author: Katja Maria Vogt
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783161533365

This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogenes's report as well as core questions in recent research on skepticism.