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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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432Review of Quentin Smith (ed.), Epistemology: New Essays (OUP, 2008). (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (4): 305-8. 2010.
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511Review of S. Goldberg, Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology (OUP, 2010). (review)Philosophy in Review 32 (6): 468-470. 2012.
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658Several scholars familiar with Sextus Empiricus’s Pyrrhonism who have attentively read his Against the Ethicists have gotten the impression that something strange is going on in this book. For, at variance with the ‘official’ Pyrrhonian attitude of universal suspension of judgment, a number of passages of Against the Ethicists seem to ascribe to the Pyrrhonist both a type of negative dogmatism and a form of realism, which together amount to what may be called ‘moderate ethical realism’. The pur…Read more
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120Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2011.In recent years, there has been renewed interest in Pyrrhonism among both philosophers and historians of philosophy. This skeptical tradition is complex and multifaceted, since the Pyrrhonian arguments have been put into the service of different enterprises or been approached in relation to interests which are quite distinct. The diversity of conceptions and uses of Pyrrhonism accounts for the diversity of the challenges it is deemed to pose and of the attempts to meet them. The present volume b…Read more
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50Disagreement-Based SkepticismSyndicate Philosophy 1 (1). 2017.My aim in this short essay is both to critically examine the nature and extent of Jonathan Matheson's disagreement-based skepticism in his book, The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement, and to consider three ways not discussed by him in which disagreement may pose, or contribute to posing, skeptical challenges. The essay will therefore be organized around four issues.
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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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