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3Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient SkepticismIn Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes, Blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Structure of Skeptical Arguments The Arguments of the Ancient Skeptics Reasons for Doubt vs. Reasons for Suspending Judgment Two Puzzles References and Further Reading.
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18Scepticism and Self-DetachmentInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 10 (3-4): 235-255. 2020.This paper takes up two questions. Is there a sense in which the Sceptic as described by Sextus Empiricus is detached from himself? Does this self-detachment by itself make the Sceptic’s way of life undesirable? I sketch two conceptions of self-detachment, and then conclude that the Sceptic faces a dilemma: either he is more detached from himself than the non-Sceptic or he is vulnerable to a non-standard version of the apraxia objection.
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Rationality and Ancient ScepticismDissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 2001.In this dissertation I examine the ways in which the central arguments of ancient scepticism exploit normative aspects of the conception of rationality endorsed by the sceptic's opponent. I look first at the long and vigorous debate between the Stoics and the Academic sceptics. The Stoics argued that the ideals of wisdom and virtue require that a person assents only to cognitive impressions, and the Academics claimed to have shown that the Stoics are by their own norms for assent committed to su…Read more
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70The demands of reason: an essay on Pyrrhonian scepticismOxford University Press. 2010.Perin argues that theSceptic is engaged in the search for truth and that since this is so, the Sceptic aims to satisfy certain basic rational requirements.
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33Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Search for TruthIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxx: Summer 2006, Oxford University Press. pp. 337-360. 2006.
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167Skepticism, Suspension of Judgment, and Norms for BeliefInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (2): 107-125. 2015.
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75Academic arguments for the indiscernibility thesisPacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (4): 493-517. 2005.The Academics offered an argument from twins or perceptually indiscernible objects and an argument from dreams or madness in support of the indiscernibility thesis: that every true perceptual impression is such that some false impression just like it is possible. I claim that these arguments, unlike modern sceptical arguments, are supposed to establish mere counterfactual rather than epistemic possibilities. They purport to show that for any true perceptual impression j, there are a number of al…Read more
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33Review of cicero, Charles Brittain (trans.), Cicero, on Academic Scepticism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (10). 2006.
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40Scepticism, Truth, and Value: A Reply to BrennanInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 4 (1): 51-62. 2014.In response to Tad Brennan’s critical notice of The Demands of Reason, I offer further arguments in defense of the distinction between appearance and belief, the claim that truth for its own sake is the Pyrrhonist’s goal, and the centrality of the rationalist interpretation of Sextus’s work
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2Scepticism and beliefIn Richard Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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48Substantial universals in Aristotle's categoriesOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 125-143. 2007.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |