Pyrrhonism Past and Present - Diego E. Machuca

Pyrrhonism Past and Present

Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality
Buch | Softcover
XI, 288 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-91212-3 (ISBN)
117,69 inkl. MwSt

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.

lt;p>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).

Preface.- Chapter 1. The Motivation, the Approach, the Plan.- Part 1: Pyrrhonism Past.- Chapter 2. Pyrrhonian Inquiry.- Chapter 3. Argumentation and Persuasiveness.- Chapter 4. The Agrippan Modes and the Challenge of Disagreement.- Chapter 5. Pyrrhonian Rationality.- Part Two: Pyrrhonism Present.- Chapter 6. The Epistemology of Disagreement.- Chapter 7. Personal Information as Symmetry Breaker.- Chapter 8. The Limits of Self-Knowledge. Chapter 9. The Disagreeing about Disagreement Argument.- Chapter 10. The Nature of Rationality.- Chapter 11. Coda.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Synthese Library
Zusatzinfo XI, 288 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 462 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte Agrippa's Trilemma • Agrippa’s Trilemma • epistemology of disagreement • Norms of assertion • philosophical inquiry • Pyrrhonism • Rationality • Sextus Empiricus • skepticism • Therapeutic arguments
ISBN-10 3-030-91212-4 / 3030912124
ISBN-13 978-3-030-91212-3 / 9783030912123
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