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Five modes of scepticism : Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan modes / Stefan Sienkiewicz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sienkiewicz, Stefan, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical monographs.
- Oxford philosophical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skeptics (Greek philosophy).
- Skepticism.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Sextus, Empiricus. Outlines of Pyrrhonism.
- Sextus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Other Title:
- Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan modes
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Stefan Sienkiewicz analyses five argument forms which are central to Pyrrhonian scepticism, as expressed in the writings of Sextus Empiricus. In particular, Sienkiewicz distinguishes between two different perspectives of the sceptic and his dogmatic opponent, and interprets the five modes of scepticism from both viewpoints.
- Contents:
- 1 The Mode of Disagreement p. 12
- Some Features of Disagreement p. 12
- Kinds of Disagreement p. 15
- Is the Sceptic Part of the Disagreement? p. 19
- Disagreement and Undecided Disagreement p. 22
- Principles of Disagreement p. 25
- Two Accounts of the Sorts of Beliefs a Sceptic Can Hold p. 29
- A Dogmatic Mode of Disagreement p. 31
- The Method of Equipollence p. 34
- A Sceptical Mode of Disagreement p. 41
- Chronicling Disagreement and Creating Disagreement p. 47
- 2 The Mode of Hypothesis p. 53
- When the Mode of Hypothesis Occurs p. 53
- What Hypothesizing Is Not p. 55
- What Hypothesizing Is p. 59
- The Function of Hypothesizing p. 64
- Three Modes of Hypothesis p. 68
- A Sceptical Mode of Hypothesis p. 72
- The Mode of Hypothesis as a Limiting Case of the Method of Equipollence p. 74
- 3 The Mode of Infinite Regression p. 77
- Infinity Introduced p. 77
- The Unacceptability of Infinitely Regressive Arguments p. 80
- The Unsurveyability of Infinitely Regressive Arguments p. 87
- Infinite Regression and the Suspension of Judgement p. 93
- A Dogmatic Mode of Infinite Regression p. 97
- A Sceptical Mode of Infinite Regression p. 99
- 4 The Mode of Reciprocity p. 104
- Reciprocity Parallel to Infinite Regression p. 104
- Formal Reciprocity p. 105
- Regressive Reciprocity p. 108
- Conceptual Reciprocity p. 110
- The Unacceptability of Reciprocal Arguments p. 111
- Two Kinds of Priority p. 114
- Asymmetry and Transitivity p. 116
- From Reciprocity to the Suspension of Judgement p. 118
- A Dogmatic Mode of Reciprocity p. 119
- A Sceptical Mode of Reciprocity p. 121
- 5 The Mode of Relativity p. 125
- Modes of Relativity p. 125
- The Logical Form of Sextus' Argument p. 129
- Sub-Argument 1 p. 132
- Sub-Argument 2 p. 134
- Sub-Argument 3 p. 136
- The Nature of Sextan Relativity p. 137
- The Mode of Relativity and the Other Agrippan Modes p. 143
- Relativity and Disagreement p. 147
- 6 The Modes Combined p. 154
- Net 1 p. 157
- Net 2 p. 166
- The Modes Recombined p. 177
- Actual Disagreement, Possible Disagreement, and the Giving of Reasons p. 181
- Dogmatic Nets p. 186.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-187115-X
- 0-19-251927-1
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