Overview
- Helps readers to better understand Sextus Empiricus’s own brand of skepticism
- Engages with current epistemological debates from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective
- Offers a meaningful contribution to the skepticism literature in both ancient philosophy and contemporary epistemology
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 450)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Pyrrhonism Past
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the nature and significance of Pyrrhonism, the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in Western philosophy. Not only did Pyrrhonism play an important part in the philosophical scene of the Hellenistic and Imperial age, but it also had a tremendous impact on Renaissance and modern philosophy and continues to be a topic of lively discussion among both scholars of ancient philosophy and epistemologists. The focus and inspiration of the book is the brand of Pyrrhonism expounded in the extant works of Sextus Empiricus. Its aim is twofold: to offer a critical interpretation of some of the central aspects of Sextus’s skeptical outlook and to examine certain debates in contemporary philosophy from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective. The first part explores the aim of skeptical inquiry, the defining features of Pyrrhonian argumentation, the epistemic challenge posed by the Modes of Agrippa, and the Pyrrhonist’s stance on the requirements of rationality. The second part focuses on present-day discussions of the epistemic significance of disagreement, the limits of self-knowledge, and the nature of rationality. The book will appeal to researchers and graduate students interested in skepticism.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Diego E. Machuca is Associate Researcher in Philosophy at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Argentina). He is also co-editor of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism and the book series Brill Studies in Skepticism. His research focuses on skepticism, both ancient and contemporary. He has edited Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy (Springer, 2011), New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism (Brill, 2011), Disagreement and Skepticism (Routledge, 2013), and Moral Skepticism: New Essays (Routledge, 2018), and co-edited Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) and Les raisons du doute: études sur le scepticisme antique (Classiques Garnier, 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pyrrhonism Past and Present
Book Subtitle: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality
Authors: Diego E. Machuca
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91210-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91209-3Published: 29 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91212-3Published: 30 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91210-9Published: 28 March 2022
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 288
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical Philosophy, Epistemology, History of Philosophy