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80This paper concerns a surprisingly sharp disagreement about the nature of ancient Pyrrhonism which first emerges clearly in Kant and Hegel, but which continues in contemporary interpretations. The paper begins by explaining the character of this disagreement, then attempts to adjudicate it in the light of the ancient texts.
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63What was the source of this great flowering? Much of the credit for it has tended to go to Jacobi and Mendelssohn, who in 1785 began a famous public dispute concerning the question whether or not Lessing had been a Spinozist, as Jacobi alleged Lessing had admitted to him shortly before his death in 1781. But Jacobi and Mendelssohn were both negatively disposed towards Spinoza. In On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr
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18Chapter Three. Skepticism and MetaphysicsIn Michael Forster (ed.), Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 13-15. 2010.
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37Chapter Five. Humean SkepticismIn Michael Forster (ed.), Kant and Skepticism, Princeton University Press. pp. 21-32. 2010.
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222Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics: Some Problems and SolutionsThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 13 (1): 100-122. 2005.The purpose of this paper is to explore some central aspects of Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics and to suggest how they should be interpreted and assessed. My general strategy will involve pointing up rather than playing down certain inconsistencies and other problems in his position, in part simply because I believe that they are there and that exegesis therefore ought to recognize them, but also in part because reflecting on them seems to me philosophically fruitful. The interpretive and philoso…Read more
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