Rethinking the history of skepticism : the missing medieval background / edited by Henrik Lagerlund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lagerlund, Henrik.

Series:

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 103.

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 0169-8028 ; Bd. 103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skepticism--History--To 1500.

Skepticism.

Skepticism--History--16th century.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of skepticism usually ignores the Middle Ages. It is customary in most historical overviews to say that epistemological skepticism and external-world skepticism did not find its way into the Western philosophical tradition until Sextus Empiricus was rediscovered and retranslated into Latin in the Sixteenth century. It is the aim of this book to show that this is not true and that the history of skepticism must be rewritten. It is only once the rich discussions of both epistemological and external-world skepticism in the Middle Ages are included that the whole history of skepticism can be written, and only then can the development of modern thought be understood. This book begins this rewriting of the history of skepticism by tracing discussions of skepticism from Al-Ghazali to sixteenth century Paris. Contributors are Taneli Kukkonen, Martin Pickave, Claude Panaccio, David Piche, Christophe Grellard, Gyula Klima, Dominik Perler, Henrik Lagerlund, and Elizabeth Karger

Contents:

Preliminary Material / H. Lagerlund

A History Of Skepticism In The Middle Ages / Henrik Lagerlund

Al-Ghazālī’S Skepticism Revisited / Taneli Kukkonen

Henry Of Ghent And John Duns Scotus On Skepticism And The Possibility Of Naturally Acquired Knowledge / Martin Pickavé

Ockham’S Reliabilism And The Intuition Of Non-Existents / Claude Panaccio and David Piché

Nicholas Of Autrecourt’S Skepticism: The Ambivalence Of Medieval Epistemology / Christophe Grellard

The Anti-Skepticism Of John Buridan And Thomas Aquinas: Putting Skeptics In Their Place Versus Stopping Them In Their Tracks / Gyula Klima

Does God Deceive Us? Skeptical Hypotheses In Late Medieval Epistemology / Dominik Perler

Skeptical Issues In Commentaries On Aristotle’S Posterior Analytics: John Buridan And Albert Of Saxony / Henrik Lagerlund

A Buridanian Response To A Fourteenth Century Skeptical Argument And Its Rebuttal By A New Argument In The Early Sixteenth Century / Elizabeth Karger

Bibliography / H. Lagerlund

Index Of Names / H. Lagerlund.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06126-0

9786613061263

90-474-1210-9

OCLC:

711003869

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004170612.i-238 DOI