Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present

769 Pages·2018·4.38 MB·English

by  Diego E. Machuca

SKEPTICISM
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SKEPTICISM
FROM ANTIQUITY TO
THE PRESENT
Edited by Diego E. Machuca and Baron Reed
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Names: Machuca, Diego E., editor.
Title: Skepticism: from antiquity to the present / [edited by] Diego Machuca and Baron Reed.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017030623 (print) | LCCN 2017043043 (ebook) | ISBN
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
List of AbbreviAtions xi
General Introduction xiii
Baron Reed and Diego E. Machuca
Part I: Ancient Skepticism 1
Introduction Diego E. Machuca 3
1 The Cyrenaics and Skepticism 14
Richard Bett
2 Pyrrho and Timon 24
Casey Perin
3 Arcesilaus 36
Anna Maria Ioppolo
4 Carneades 51
Harald Thorsrud
5 Aenesidemus 67
Luca Castagnoli
6 Philo of Larissa 81
Harold Tarrant
7 Cicero 93
J. P. F. Wynne
8 Menodotus and Medical Empiricism 102
James Allen
9 Middle Platonism and Skepticism: Plutarch and Favorinus 114
Carlos Lévy
vi CONTENTS
10 Sextus Empiricus 125
Tad Brennan and Cliff Roberts
11 Skepticism in Classical Indian Philosophy 145
Matthew R. Dasti
Part II: Medieval and Renaissance Skepticism 163
Introduction Diego E. Machuca 165
12 Augustine and Skepticism 175
Stéphane Marchand
13 John of Salisbury’s Skepticism 186
David Bloch
14 Skepticism in Classical Islam: The Case of Ghazali 196
Paul L. Heck
15 Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on Skepticism 209
Christophe Grellard
16 Divine Deception 222
Henrik Lagerlund
17 Michel de Montaigne 232
Gianni Paganini
18 Pierre Charron 247
Gianni Paganini
19 Francisco Sanchez: A Renaissance Pyrrhonist against
Aristotelian Dogmatism 260
Damian Caluori
Part III: Modern Skepticism 271
Introduction Baron Reed 273
20 François de La Mothe Le Vayer 283
Sylvia Giocanti
21 Gassendi on Skepticism 295
Antonia LoLordo
22 Descartes and the Force of Skepticism 306
David Cunning
CONTENTS vii
23 Varieties of Modern Academic Skepticism:
Pierre-Daniel Huet and Simon Foucher 320
Michael W. Hickson
24 Spinoza on Skepticism 342
Alison Peterman
25 Pierre Bayle 355
John Christian Laursen
26 Berkeley and Skepticism 369
Margaret Atherton
27 A Pyrrhonian Interpretation of Hume on Assent 380
Donald L. M. Baxter
28 Thomas Reid’s Engagement with Skeptics and Skepticism 395
René van Woudenberg
29 Johann Georg Hamann 407
Gwen Griffith-Dickson
30 Kant and External World Skepticism 419
Georges Dicker
31 Hegel: Philosophy as a Kind of Skepticism 430
Dietmar H. Heidemann
32 Friedrich Nietzsche 442
Andreas Urs Sommer
33 Russell’s Logical Construction of the External World 454
Peter J. Graham
34 Moore and Mooreanism 467
Annalisa Coliva
35 Wittgenstein and Skepticism: Illusory Doubts 481
Michael Williams
36 Richard Popkin on the History of Skepticism 506
José R. Maia Neto
Part IV: Contemporary Skepticism 521
Introduction Baron Reed 523
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37 Regress Arguments and Skepticism 535
Richard Fumerton
38 The Problem of the Criterion 550
Andrew D. Cling
39 Neo-Pyrrhonism 565
Markus Lammenranta
40 Disagreement and Skepticism 581
Bryan Frances
41 Skepticism and the Internalism-Externalism Debate 592
Matthias Steup
42 Skepticism and Fallibilism 609
Stephen Hetherington
43 Skepticism and Contextualism 620
Michael Blome-Tillmann
44 External World Skepticism 634
Ram Neta
45 Disjunctivism and Skepticism 652
Duncan Pritchard and Chris Ranalli
46 Inductive Skepticism: A Functional Investigation 668
Ruth Weintraub
47 Skepticism about A Priori Knowledge 685
Otávio Bueno
48 Skepticism about Other Minds 700
Anil Gomes
49 Moral Skepticism 714
Richard Joyce
50 Religious Skepticism 727
J. L. Schellenberg
nAme index 739
subjeCt index 742
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
James Allen, University of Toronto, Canada
Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
Donald L. M. Baxter, University of Connecticut, United States
Richard Bett, Johns Hopkins University, United States
David Bloch, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael Blome-Tillmann, McGill University, Canada
Tad Brennan, Cornell University, United States
Otávio Bueno, University of Miami, United States
Damian Caluori, Trinity University, United States
Luca Castagnoli, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Andrew Cling, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States
Annalisa Coliva, University of California, Irvine, United States
David Cunning, University of Iowa, United States
Matthew Dasti, Bridgewater State University, United States
Georges Dicker, SUNY College at Brockport, United States
Bryan Frances, University of Tartu, Estonia
Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa, United States
Sylvia Giocanti, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, France
Anil Gomes, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Peter Graham, University of California, Riverside, United States
Christophe Grellard, EPHE, PSL Research University, France
Gwen Griffith-Dickson, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Paul Heck, Georgetown University, United States
Stephen Hetherington, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dietmar Heidemann, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Michael Hickson, Trent University, Canada
Anna Maria Ioppolo, Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy
Richard Joyce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Henrik Lagerlund, Stockholm University, Sweden