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227Reseña de M. Wringley y P. J. Smith (eds.), O filósofo e sua história: uma homenagem a Oswaldo Porchat. (review)Anuario Filosófico 38 (82): 686-688. 2005.
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240Review of C. Rovane, The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism (Harvard University Press, 2013). (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 14 (4): 463-466. 2017.
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2652Moral Skepticism: An Introduction and OverviewIn Diego E. Machuca (ed.), Moral Skepticism: New Essays, Routledge. pp. 1-31. 2018.In this introductory chapter, I not only present the essays that make up this volume but also I offer an extensive critical overview of moral skepticism with the hope that it will turn out to be useful particularly to the uninitiated reader. I first provide a taxonomy of varieties of moral skepticism, then discuss the main arguments advanced in their favor, and finally summarize the ten essays here collected, which deal with one or more of those skeptical stances and arguments.
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697Moral Skepticism, Fictionalism, and InsulationIn Diego E. Machuca (ed.), Moral Skepticism: New Essays, Routledge. pp. 213-234. 2018.It has been claimed that a key difference between ancient and contemporary skepticism is that, unlike the ancient skeptics, contemporary skeptics consider ordinary beliefs to be insulated from skeptical doubt. In the case of metaethics, this issue is related to the following question: what attitude towards ordinary moral thought and discourse should one adopt if one is a moral skeptic? Whereas moral abolitionists claim that one should do away with ordinary moral thought and discourse altogether,…Read more
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1695The Pyrrhonian Argument from Possible DisagreementArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 93 (2): 148-161. 2011.In his Pyrrhonian Outlines , Sextus Empiricus employs an argument based upon the possibility of disagreement in order to show that one should not assent to a Dogmatic claim to which at present one cannot oppose a rival claim. The use of this argument seems to be at variance with the Pyrrhonian stance, both because it does not seem to accord with the definition of Skepticism and because the argument appears to entail that the search for truth is doomed to failure. In the present paper, I examine …Read more
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749Ancient Skepticism: The Skeptical AcademyPhilosophy Compass 6 (4): 259-266. 2011.Ancient philosophy knew two main skeptical traditions: the Pyrrhonian and the Academic. In this final paper of the three‐part series devoted to ancient skepticism, I present some of the topics about Academic skepticism which have recently been much debated in the specialist literature. I will be concerned with the outlooks of Arcesilaus, Carneades, and Philo of Larissa.
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44Review of Charles Brittain, Cicero: On Academic Scepticism (Hackett, 2006). (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006. 2006.Particularly during the past twenty five years, there has been an outstanding advance in the study of ancient skepticism, both in its Pyrrhonian and Academic varieties. This is reflected in the publication of a considerable number of works about the nature and consistency of those philosophical outlooks, as well as about their influence on the development of early modern philosophy and their relevance to present day epistemological discussions. Most of these works concern Pyrrhonian skepticism. …Read more
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24Review of C. Lévy, Les scepticismes (Presses Universitaires de France, 2008). (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009. 2009.
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42Review of J. Delattre (ed.), Sur le Contre les professeurs de Sextus Empiricus (Presses de l’Université de Charles-de-Gaulle–Lille 3, 2006). (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009. 2009.
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2821La critique du critère de vérité épicurien chez Sextus Empiricus: un scepticisme sur le monde extérieur?In Stéphane Marchand & Francesco Verde (eds.), Épicurisme Et Scepticisme, Università La Sapienza. pp. 105-127. 2013.It is generally agreed that one of the key differences between ancient skepticism and modern and contemporary skepticism is that the ancient skeptic does not call into question the existence of the external world, but only our ability to know the properties or qualities of external objects. In this paper, I argue that in Sextus Empiricus's attack on the Epicurean criterion of truth one finds evidence that the ancient Pyrrhonist also suspends judgment about the existence of external objects.
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Review of Luciano Floridi: Sextus Empiricus: The Transmission and Recovery of Pyrrhonism (OUP, 2002). (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2): 336-340. 2004.
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300Review of David Coady, What to Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). (review)Philosophy in Review 34 (3-4): 139-141. 2014.
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493Review of R. Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (CUP, 2010). (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (3). 2011.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 573-579, May 2011
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1155Argumentative Persuasiveness in Ancient PyrrhonismMéthexis 22 101-26. 2009.The present paper has two, interrelated objectives. The first is to analyze the different senses in which arguments are characterized as persuasive in the extant writings of Sextus Empiricus. The second is to examine the Pyrrhonist’s therapeutic use of arguments in the discussion with his Dogmatic rivals – more precisely, to determine the sense and basis of Sextus’ distinction between therapeutic arguments that appear weighty and therapeutic arguments that appear weak in their persuasiveness.
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Review of Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Bayle (OUP, 2003). (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch 112 (1): 192. 2005.
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505Review of S. Charles & P. J. Smith (eds.), Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung (Springer, 2013). (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 551-552. 2015.
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99Moral Skepticism: New Essays (edited book)Routledge. 2018.Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the metaethical study of skepticism has profited from advances in general epistemology and findings in empirical sciences, in light of which new arguments for and against moral skepticism have been devised, while the traditional ones have been reexamined. This collection of original essays by leading metaethicists will advance the ongoing debates about various forms of moral sk…Read more
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1022Pyrrhonism, Inquiry, and RationalityElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 34 (1): 201-228. 2013.In this paper, I critically engage with Casey Perin's interpretation of Sextan Pyrrhonism in his book, The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism. From an approach that is both exegetical and systematic, I explore a number of issues concerning the Pyrrhonist's inquiry into truth, his alleged commitment to the canons of rationality, and his response to the apraxia objection.
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569A Neo-Pyrrhonian Approach to the Epistemology of DisagreementIn D. E. Machuca (ed.), Disagreement and Skepticism, Routledge. pp. 66-89. 2013.This paper approaches the current epistemological debate on peer disagreement from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, thus adopting a form of skepticism which is more radical than those discussed in the literature. It makes use of argumentative strategies found in ancient Pyrrhonism both to show that such a debate rests on problematic assumptions and to block some maneuvers intended to offer an efficacious way of settling a considerable number of peer disputes. The essay takes issue with three views …Read more
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129Review of E. Spinelli, Questioni scettiche: Letture introduttive al pirronismo antico (Lithos, 2005). (review)Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 55 (1): 263-266. 2008.
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16Review of Sextus Empiricus, Esquisses pyrrhoniennes. Introduction, traduction et commentaires par Pierre Pellegrin (review)Revue Philosophique De Louvain 100 (4): 797-801. 2002.
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29Review of H. Thorsrud, Ancient Scepticism (Acumen, 2009). (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009. 2009.
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583Review of M. Lynch, In Praise of Reason (MIT Press, 2012). (review)Philosophy in Review 33 (4): 308-311. 2013.
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65PyrrhonismOxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. 2019.Pyrrhonism can safely be said to be the most prominent and influential form of skepticism in the history of Western philosophy. It was an important philosophical movement in the Hellenistic and Imperial ages, made a tremendous impact on modern philosophy, and some of its arguments continue to be a central topic of discussion in the contemporary philosophical scene. This can be taken to be a strong indication of the intriguing and challenging character of the Pyrrhonian outlook. After presenting …Read more
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La temporalidad del pensamiento en DescartesRevista Latinoamericana de Filosofia 27 (1): 99-126. 2001.
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560De praktische en epistemische waarde van het pyrronismeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108 (1): 73-98. 2016.This paper assesses both the practical and the epistemic value of Pyrrhonism as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant writings. It first explores whether the Pyrrhonist’s suspension of judgment and undisturbedness make us behave in a moral or immoral way, and whether they allow us to attain those goals that would make it possible to live well. It then examines whether the Pyrrhonist’s suspension of judgment makes it possible to reach the epistemic goals of attaining truth and avo…Read more
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