Skepticism : from antiquity to the present / edited by Diego E. Machuca and Baron Reed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Machuca, Diego E., editor.

Reed, Baron, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Skepticism--History.

Skepticism.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 746 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

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 commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners of philosophy.--Back cover.

Contents:

Part 1 Ancient Skepticism 1

Introduction 3

1 The Cyrenaics and Skepticism 14

2 Pyrrho and Timon 24

3 Arcesilaus 36

4 Carneades 51

5 Aenesidemus 67

6 Philo of Larissa 81

7 Cicero 93

8 Menodotus and Medical Empiricism 102

9 Middle Platonism and Skepticism: Plutarch and Facorinus 114

10 Sextus Empiricus 125

11 Skepticism in Classical Indian Philosophy 145

Part II Medieval and Renaissance Skepticism 163

Introduction 165

12 Augustine and Skepticism 175

13 John of Salisbury's Skepticism 186

14 Skepticism in Classical Islam: The Case of Ghazali 196

15 Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on Skepticism 209

16 Divine Deception 222

17 Michel de Montaigne 232

18 Pierre Charron 247

19 Grancisco Sanchez: A Renaissance Pyrrhonist against Aristotelian Dogmatism 260

Part III Modern Skepticism 271

Introduction 273

20 François de La Mothe Le Vayer 283

21 Gassendi on Skepticism 295

22 Descartes and the Force of Skepticism 306

23 Varieties of Modern Academic skepticism: Pierre-Daniel Huet and Simon Foucher 320

24 Spinoza and Skepticism 342

25 Pierre Bayle 355

26 Berkeley and Skepticism 369

27 A Pyrrhonian Interpretation of Hume on Assent 380

28 Thomas Reid's Engagement with Skeptics and Skepticism 395

29 Johann Georg Hamann 407

30 Kantand External World Skepticism 419

31 Hegel: Philosophy as a Kind of Skepticism 430

32 Friedrich Nietzsche 442

33 Russell's Logical Construction of the External World 454

34 Moore and Mooreanism 467

35 Wittgenstein and Skepticism: Illusory Doubts 481

36 Richard Popkin on the History of Skepticism 506

Part IV Contemporary Skepticism 521

Introduction 523

37 Regress Arguments and Skepticism 535

38 The Problem of the Criterion 550

39 Neo-Pyrrhonism 565

40 Disgreement and Skepticism 581

41 Skepticism and the Internalism-Externalism Debate 592

42 Skepticism and Fallibilism 609

43 Skepticism and Contextualism 620

44 External World Skepticism 634

45 Disjunctivism and Skepticism 652

46 Inductive Skepticism: A Functional Investigation 668

47 Skepticism about A Priori Knowledge 685

48 Skepticism about Other Minds 700

49 Moral Skepticism 714

50 Religious Skepticism 727.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Skepticism.

ISBN:

9781472507716

1472507711

OCLC:

1003268937