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ISBN 10: 0521874769 
ISBN 13: 9780521874762
Author: Richard Bett

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics’ ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism Cambridge Companions to Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

I. Origins and Development

  1. Antecedents in Early Greek Philosophy

    • Introduction

    • Sceptical Arguments in the Early and Classical Greek Period

    • Arguments Against Sceptical Ideas in the Classical Period

    • Conclusion

  2. Pyrrho and Early Pyrrhonism

    • Evidence for Pyrrho’s Life and Philosophy

    • Life of Pyrrho

    • Pyrrho According to Timon According to Aristocles in Eusebius

    • Our Reaction to the Undecidability of Nature

    • Other Testimonies for Pyrrho’s Views

    • Reasons for Acting and Tranquillity

  3. Arcesilaus and Carneades

    • Arcesilaus

    • The Academic Attack on Stoic Epistemology

    • Arcesilaus’ Practical Criterion

    • Carneades

    • Carneades’ Practical Criterion

    • Is Carneades a Fallibilist?

  4. The Sceptical Academy: Decline and Afterlife

    • The Successors of Carneades

    • Two Continuations of the Academy

      • Aenesidemus

      • Middle Platonism

    • The Persistence of the Academy: Three Non-Standard Cases

      • Favorinus

      • Augustine and the Academy

      • Petrus Valentia and His Academica

    • Conclusion

  5. Aenesidemus and the Rebirth of Pyrrhonism

    • Preliminaries

    • The General Structure of Aenesidemean Scepticism

    • Aenesidemus in Sextus

    • Aenesidemus and Heraclitus

  6. Sextus Empiricus

    • Life and Works

    • A Problematic Text

    • The Sceptic Way and Suspension of Assent

    • Sceptical Discourse

    • Unity or Schizophrenia?

II. Topics and Problems

  1. Scepticism and Belief

    • Arcesilaus

    • Sextus Empiricus

  2. Scepticism and Action

    • The Apraxia Challenge: Objections and Replies

    • Academic Responses to the Apraxia Challenge

    • Sextus Empiricus

  3. Scepticism and Ethics

  4. Academics versus Pyrrhonists, Reconsidered

  • The Academics: Arcesilaus and Carneades

  • The Pyrrhonists: Sextus Empiricus

  1. The Pyrrhonian Modes

  • Epochê and Pyrrhonian Hygiene

  • Rhetoric versus Demonstration

  • The Ten Modes

  • Argument Schemata

  • The Platonic Mode

  • The Five Agrippan Modes

  • The Eight Modes Against Causal Explanation

  1. Pyrrhonism and Medicine

  2. Pyrrhonism and the Specialized Sciences

  • A Preliminary Agenda

  • Chronology

  • Sceptical “Flavor”

  • Sceptical-Empirical Conclusions

III. Beyond Antiquity

  1. The Rediscovery and Posthumous Influence of Scepticism

  • Introduction

  • Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

  • The Renaissance

  • Conclusion

  1. Descartes’ Transformation of the Sceptical Tradition

  • Sextus and Descartes

  • Sceptical Stances

  • Certainty and Stratification

  • Dreamers, Madmen, and Doppelgangers

  • Conclusion

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