Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present

Dr Diego Machuca, Professor Baron Reed (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

768 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-0771-6 (ISBN)

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Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind.

By exploring each of the distinct traditions and providing expert insights, this extensive reference work:

- covers major thinkers such as Sextus Empiricus, Cicero, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein.
- acknowledges the influence of ancient skeptical traditions on later philosophy and explains why it is still a fertile topic of inquiry among today’s philosophers and historians of philosophy.
- analyzes various forms of skepticism including Pyrrhonian, Academic, religious, moral, and neo-Pyrrhonian.
- addresses issues in contemporary epistemology and indicates new directions of study.

Skepticism, a driving force in the history of philosophy, remains at the center of debates in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an essential point of reference for any student, researcher, or practitioner of philosophy, presenting a systematic and historical survey of this core philosophical topic.

Diego Machuca is Associate Researcher in Philosophy at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism and Series Editor of Brill Studies in Skepticism. Baron Reed is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA.

General Introduction, Baron Reed and Diego Machuca
Part I: Ancient Skepticism
Introduction, Diego Machuca
1. Cyrenaicism, Richard Bett
2. Pyrrho and Timon, Casey Perin
3. Arcesilaus, Anna Maria Ioppolo
4. Carneades, Harald Thorsrud
5. Aenesidemus, Luca Castagnoli
6. Philo of Larissa, Harold Tarrant
7. Cicero, J.P.F. Wynne
8. Menodotus and Medical Empiricism, James Allen
9. Middle Platonism and Skepticism: Plutarch and Favorinus, Carlos Lévy
10. Sextus Empiricus, Tad Brennan and Cliff Roberts
11. Skepticism in Classical Indian Philosophy, Matthew Dasti
Part II: Medieval and Renaissance Skepticism
Introduction, Diego Machuca
12. Augustine and Skepticism, Stéphane Marchand
13. John of Salisbury's Skepticism, David Bloch;
14. Skepticism in Classical Islam: The Case of Ghazali, Paul Heck
15. Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan, Christophe Grellard
16. Divine Deception, Henrik Lagerlund
17. Michel de Montaigne, Gianni Paganini
18. Pierre Charron, Gianni Paganini
19. Francisco Sanchez, Damian Caluori
Part III: Modern Skepticism
Introduction, Baron Reed
20. François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Sylvia Giocanti
21. Gassendi on Skepticism, Antonia LoLordo
22. Descartes and the Force of Skepticism, David Cunning
23. Varieties of Modern Academic Skepticism: Pierre-Daniel Huet and Simon Foucher, Michael Hickson
24. Spinoza and Skepticism, Alison Peterman
25. Pierre Bayle, John Christian Laursen
26. Berkeley and Skepticism, Margaret Atherton
27. A Pyrrhonian Interpretation of Hume on Assent, Donald L. M. Baxter
28. Thomas Reid’s Engagement with Skeptics and Skepticism, René van Woudenberg
29. Johann Georg Hamann, Gwen Griffith-Dickson
30. Kant and Skepticism, Georges Dicker
31. Hegel: Philosophy as a Kind of Skepticism, Dietmar Heidemann;
32. Friedrich Nietzsche, Andreas Urs Sommer
33. Russell’s Logical Construction of the External World, Peter Graham
34. Moore and Mooreanism, Annalisa Coliva
35. Wittgenstein and Skepticism: Illusory Doubts, Michael Williams
36. Richard Popkin on the History of Skepticism, José Raimundo Maia Neto
Part IV: Contemporary Skepticism
Introduction, Baron Reed
37. Regress Arguments and Skepticism, Richard Fumerton
38. The Problem of the Criterion, Andrew Cling
39. Neo-Pyrrhonism, Markus Lammenranta
40. Disagreement and Skepticism, Bryan Frances
41. Skepticism and the Internalism-Externalism Debate, Matthias Steup
42. Skepticism and Fallibilism, Stephen Hetherington
43. Skepticism and Contextualism, Michael Blome-Tillmann
44. External World Skepticism, Ram Neta
45. Disjunctivism and Skepticism, Duncan Pritchard and Chris Ranalli
46. Skepticism about Induction: A Functionalist Investigation, Ruth Weintraub
47. Skepticism about Other Minds, Anil Gomes
48. Moral Skepticism, Richard Joyce
49. Religious Skepticism, J. L. Schellenberg
50. Skepticism about A Priori Knowledge, Otavio Bueno
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.1.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1238 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4725-0771-1 / 1472507711
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-0771-6 / 9781472507716
Zustand	Neuware