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    Skepticism, Suspension of Judgment, and Norms for Belief
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5 (2): 107-125. 2015.
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    Academic arguments for the indiscernibility thesis
    Pacific 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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    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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    Making sense of arcesilaus
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 45 313-340. 2013.
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    Substantial universals in Aristotle's categories
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 125-143. 2007.
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    Scepticism, Truth, and Value: A Reply to Brennan
    International 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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    Pyrrhonian scepticism and the search for truth
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30 337-360. 2006.
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    Scepticism and Self-Detachment
    International 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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    Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism
    In 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.
  • Rationality and Ancient Scepticism
    Dissertation, 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