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Epistemology after Sextus Empiricus / Katja Maria Vogt and Justin Vlasits.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skeptics (Greek philosophy).
- Skepticism.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Sextus, Empiricus--Influence.
- Sextus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity, providing a model of skeptical philosophy that remains significant to this day. This volume collects essays discussing Sextus's influence in the history of modern philosophy as well as contemporary engagements with Sextus's version of Pyrrhonian skepticism.
- Contents:
- Perceptual relativism : ancient and contemporary / John Morrison
- Illusory looks / Kathrin Glüer
- Bayesian liberalism / Megan Feeney and Susanna Schellenberg
- Variation and change in appearances / MGF Martin
- The force of assumptions and self-attributions / Peter Pagin
- Hypothetical syllogisms and infinite regress / Marko Malink
- Sextan skepticism and the rise and fall of German idealism / Jessica N. Berry
- Wittgensteinian epistemology, epistemic vertigo, and Pyrrhonian skepticism / Duncan Pritchard
- "The skeptical physitian" : Locke, Pyrrhonism, and the case against innate ideas / Kathryn Tabb
- Pyrrhonian skepticism and humean skepticism : belief, evidence, and causal power / Don Garrett
- The first riddle of induction : Sextus Empiricus and the formal learning theorists / Justin Vlasits
- Incomplete ignorance / Jens Haas and Katja Maria Vogt
- Echoes of Sextus Empiricus in Nietzsche? / Richard Bett
- Value disagreement, action, and commitment / Sergio Tenenbaum.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 10, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-094633-4
- 0-19-094631-8
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