Pyrrhonism In Ancient Modern And Contemporary Philosophy

Author : Diego E. Machuca
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400719914
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy written by Diego E. Machuca and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Diego E. Machuca
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030912108
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhonism Past and Present written by Diego E. Machuca and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Katja Maria Vogt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190946326
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus written by Katja Maria Vogt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity. His writings contain the most subtle and detailed versions of the ancient skeptical arguments known as Pyrrhonism, adding up to a distinctive philosophical approach. Instead of viewing philosophy as valuable because of the answers it gives to important questions, Sextus considered the search for answers itself to be fundamental and offered a philosophy centered on inquiry. Assuming the point of view of an active inquirer, Sextus developed arguments concerning conflicting appearances, infinite regress in argument, dogmatic assertion of premises that are insufficiently justified, and many other ideas that fascinated later philosophers of knowledge across the centuries. He provided a unique perspective on topics of enduring relevance such as perception, language, logical consequence, belief, ignorance, disagreement, and induction. While Sextus's importance to epistemology was appreciated by early modern and modern philosophers, he is underrepresented in contemporary discussions. In order to put Sextus back in the center of epistemology, these essays discuss his influence in the history of modern philosophy as well as contemporary engagements with Sextus's version of Pyrrhonian skepticism. The contributors investigate epistemology after Sextus, addressing four core themes of Sextus's skepticism: appearances and perception, the structure of justification and proof, belief and ignorance, and ethics and action. The arguments presented here bridge the divide between contemporary and ancient debates about knowledge and skepticism and will appeal to philosophers interested in epistemology and philosophy of mind as well as those interested in ancient philosophy and the history of philosophy more generally.

Author : Adrian Kuzminski
Publisher : Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
ISBN 13 : 9780739125076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhonism written by Adrian Kuzminski and published by Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Kuzminski argues that Pyrrhonism, an ancient Greek philosophy, can best be understood as a Western form of Buddhism. Not only is its founder, Pyrrho, reported to have traveled to India and been influenced by contacts with Indian sages, but a close comparison of ancient Buddhist and Pyrrhonian texts suggests a common philosophical practice, seeking liberation through suspension of judgment with regard to beliefs about non-evident things.

Author : Richard Henry Popkin
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872202511
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The High Road to Pyrrhonism written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy.

Author : Richard Bett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199256617
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy written by Richard Bett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Diego E. Machuca
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004207775
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism written by Diego E. Machuca and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects eight new essays on ancient Pyrrhonism as it is presented in Sextus Empiricus' writings. They discuss issues not previously examined or reconsider old ones from a different perspective, thus proposing original interpretations and advancing the scholarly study of Pyrrhonian skepticism.

Author : Plínio Junqueira Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319454242
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy written by Plínio Junqueira Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, Pascal, Foucher, Huet, and Bayle. In addition, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the role of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern philosophy and a complete survey of the period. As a whole, the book offers a basis for a new, balanced assessment of the role played by scepticism in both its forms. Since Richard Popkin's works, there has been considerable interest in the role played by Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy. Comparatively, Academic Scepticism was much neglected by scholars, despite some scattered important contributions. Furthermore, a general assessment of the presence of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy is lacking. This book fills the void.

Author : Plínio Junqueira Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030945189
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism written by Plínio Junqueira Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for Pyrrho: its concept, its principles, its reason, its criteria, its goals. In the first part, the author traces distinct phases in the life and philosophical development of a talented person, from the pre-philosophical phase where philosophy was perceived as the solution to life's disturbing anomalies, through his initial philosophical investigation in order to find truth where the basic experience is that of a huge disagreement between philosophers, to the final phase where he finally recognises that his experience is similar to that of the skeptical school and adheres to skepticism. The second part is devoted to explain the nature of his skepticism. It presents an original interpretation, for it claims that the central role in Sextus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism is played by a skeptical logos, a rationale or way of reasoning. This is what unifies and articulates the skeptical orientation. The skeptic goes on investigating truth, but in a new condition, for he is now tranquil, and he has a skeptical method of his own. He has also acquired a special ability in order to balance both sides of an opposition, which involves a number of different skills. Finally, the author examines the skeptical life generated by this philosophical experience where he lives a life without opinions and dogmas; it is an engaged life, deeply concerned with our everyday actions and values. Readers will gain a deeper insight into the philosophy of Pyrrhonism as presented by Sextus Empiricus, as well as understand the meaning of anomalía, zétesis, epokhé, ataraxía, and other important ideas of this philosophy.

Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975499
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy written by Frisbee Sheffield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD and beyond. There are dedicated discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and successors. The contributors also address various problems of interpretation and method, highlighting the particular demands and interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. All original texts discussed are translated into English.