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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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81New essays on ancient Pyrrhonism (edited book)Brill. 2011.Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism …Read more
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461Pyrrhonian RelativismElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 36 (1): 89-114. 2015.This paper argues that Sextus Empiricus’s Pyrrhonism is a form of relativism markedly different from the positions typically referred to by this term. The scholars who have explored the relativistic elements found in Sextus’s texts have claimed that his outlook is not actually a form of relativism, or that those elements are inconsistent with his account of Pyrrhonism, or that he is confusing skepticism with relativism. The reason for these views is twofold: first, when employing the term ‘relat…Read more
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691A Neo-Pyrrhonian Response to the Disagreeing about Disagreement ArgumentSynthese 194 (5): 1663-1680. 2017.An objection that has been raised to the conciliatory stance on the epistemic significance of peer disagreement known as the Equal Weight View is that it is self-defeating, self-undermining, or self-refuting. The proponent of that view claims that equal weight should be given to all the parties to a peer dispute. Hence, if one of his epistemic peers defends the opposite view, he is required to give equal weight to the two rival views, thereby undermining his confidence in the correctness of the …Read more
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829Conciliationism and the Menace of ScepticismDialogue 54 (3). 2015.It is sometimes claimed that conciliatory views on disagreement ultimately lead to either global or widespread scepticism. This is deemed to be a serious problem for conciliationism either because scepticism of either kind is a patently untenable stance or because it poses a serious threat to our intellectual and social lives. In this paper, I first argue that the alleged untenability of both types of scepticism is far from being obvious and should therefore be established rather than taken for …Read more
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119Review of W. Sinnott-Armstrong, Moral Skepticisms (OUP, 2006). (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (4): 303-305. 2008.
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663Again on Sextus on Persuasiveness and EquipollenceArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99 (2): 212-228. 2017.This paper engages with Svavar Svavarsson’s recent essay, “Sextus Empiricus on Persuasiveness and Equipollence,” arguing against both (i) his interpretation of whether two rival arguments appear equipollent to the Pyrrhonist because he himself is equally persuaded by both of them, and (ii) his interpretation of the way in which the argument from possible disagreement is supposed to induce suspension of judgment in the Pyrrhonist. In so doing, I aim to dispel some serious misunderstandings regard…Read more
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3063Sextus Empiricus: His Outlook, Works, and LegacyFreiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie Und Theologie 55 (1/2): 28-63. 2008.The purpose of this paper is twofold: to discuss some challenging issues concerning Sextus’ works and outlook, and to offer an overview of the influence exerted by Sextan Pyrrhonism on both early modern and contemporary philosophy.
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474Review of M. Forster, Kant and Skepticism (Princeton, 2010). (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (3): 186-8. 2010.
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1100Review of R. Joyce & S. Kirchin (eds.), A World without Values: Essays on John Mackie’s Moral Error Theory (Springer, 2010). (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (5): 354-358. 2011.
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750Review of M. Bergmann & P. Kain (eds.), Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution (OUP, 2014). (review)Philosophy in Review 35 (5): 235-237. 2015.
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1376Pyrrhonism and the Law of Non-ContradictionIn D. E. Machuca (ed.), Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy, Springer. 2011.The question of whether the Pyrrhonist adheres to certain logical principles, criteria of justification, and inference rules is of central importance for the study of Pyrrhonism. Its significance lies in that, whereas the Pyrrhonist describes his philosophical stance and argues against the Dogmatists by means of what may be considered a rational discourse, adherence to any such principles, criteria, and rules does not seem compatible with the radical character of his skepticism. Hence, if the P…Read more
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644Review of David Wong, Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism (OUP, 2006). (review)Philosophy in Review 29 (2): 148-150. 2009.
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1818Ancient Skepticism: PyrrhonismPhilosophy Compass 6 (4): 246-258. 2011.Pyrrhonism was one of the two main ancient skeptical traditions. In this second paper of the three‐part series devoted to ancient skepticism, I present and discuss some of the issues on Pyrrhonian skepticism which have been the focus of much attention in the recent literature. The topics to be addressed concern the outlooks of Pyrrho, Aenesidemus, and Sextus Empiricus.
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2392The Pyrrhonist’s ἀταραξία and φιλανθρωπίαAncient Philosophy 26 (1): 111-126. 2006.The purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, to examine what beliefs, if any, underlie (a) the Pyrrhonist’s desire for ataraxia and his account of how this state may be attained, and (b) his philanthropic therapy, which seeks to induce, by argument, ejpochv and ataraxia in the Dogmatists. Second, to determine whether the Pyrrhonist’s philanthropy and his search for and attainment of ataraxia are, as scholars have generally believed, essential aspects of his stance.
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71Review of Richard Bett (trans.), Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (CUP, 2005). (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008. 2008.This translation of the two books that make up Against the Logicians is a valuable addition to the ever increasing literature on Pyrrhonism. The only previous complete English version of these two books is that of R. G. Bury, which appeared in 1935 in the Loeb Classical Library as the second volume of..
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30Review of A. M. Ioppolo, La testimonianza di Sesto Empirico sull'Accademia scettica (Bibliopolis, 2009). (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010. 2010.
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23Review of A.M. Ioppolo and D. Sedley (eds.), Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155-86 BC (Bibliopolis, 2007). (review)Bryn Mawr Classcial Review 2008. 2008.
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224Review of K. Setiya, Knowing Right from Wrong (OUP, 2012). (review)Philosophy in Review 34 (1-2): 78-80. 2014.
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759Editor's IntroductionIn D. E. Machuca (ed.), Disagreement and Skepticism, Routledge. 2013.In this introductory chapter, I first offer an overview of the two themes addressed in the present collection - namely, disagreement and skepticism - and their connection, then present the purpose and content of the volume.
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159Disagreement and skepticism (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Disagreement is a pervasive feature of human life whose skeptical implications have been emphasized particularly by the ancient Pyrrhonists and by contemporary moral skeptics. Although the connection between disagreement and skepticism is also a focus of analysis in the emerging and burgeoning area of epistemology concerned with the significance of controversy, it has arguably not received the full attention it deserves. The present volume explores for the first time the possible skeptical conse…Read more
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291Review of W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Pyrrhonian Skepticism (OUP, 2004). (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (1). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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1002Agrippan Pyrrhonism and the Challenge of DisagreementJournal of Philosophical Research 40 23-39. 2015.This paper argues for the following three claims. First, the Agrippan mode from disagreement does not play a secondary role in inducing suspension of judgment. Second, the Pyrrhonist is not committed to the criteria of justification underlying the Five Modes of Agrippa, which nonetheless does not prevent him from non-doxastically assenting to them. And third, some recent objections to Agrippan Pyrrhonism raised by analytic epistemologists and experimental philosophers fail to appreciate the Pyrr…Read more
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34Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2018.Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind.
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432Review of Quentin Smith (ed.), Epistemology: New Essays (OUP, 2008). (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (4): 305-8. 2010.
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