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39Outlines of PyrrhonismThe Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of PyrrhonismPhilosophical Review 107 (1): 151. 1998.R. G. Bury’s translations of Sextus Empiricus for the Loeb Library have served English language readers well, but new translations, taking account of advances in scholarship since Bury’s day, have long been needed. We now have two new English versions of the Outlines of Pyrrhonism. They take different and in some ways complementary approaches to the task.
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25Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 40: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback
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306Failure and Expertise in the ancient conception of an artIn Horowitz Tami Tamar & Janis Allen (eds.), Scientific Failure, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 81-108. 1994.The articles examines how failure, especially in so-called 'stochastic' arts or sciences like medicine and navigation stimulated reflections about the nature of the knowledge required of a genuine art (techne) or science.
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14The Skepticism of Sextus EmpiricusIn Wolfgang Haase (ed.), Philosophie, Wissenschaften, Technik. Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 2582-2607. 1987.
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22Sextus Empiricus: Against the Grammarians (Book) (review)Journal of Hellenic Studies 123 258. 2003.
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Epicurian Inferences: The Evidence of Philodemus's De signisIn Jyl Gentzler (ed.), Method in ancient philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 307-350. 1998.
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2Dialectic and Virtue in Plato's ProtagorasIn Burkhard Reis & Stella Haffmans (eds.), The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 6--31. 2006.
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70Galen as (Mis)informant about the Views of his Predecessors: A Discussion of R. J. Hankinson (ed.), Galen on Antecedent Causes (Cambridge, 1998) (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 83 (1): 81-89. 2001.
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3Syllogism, demonstration, and definition in Aristotle's Topics and Posterior AnalyticsIn Michael Frede, James V. Allen, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Wolfgang-Rainer Mann & Benjamin Morison (eds.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede. Summer 2011. Vol. 40, Oxford University Press. pp. 40--63. 2011.
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38Études sur les philosophies Hellénistiques (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (1): 132-134. 1998.Jacques Brunschwig’s collection of papers, Études sur les philosophies Hellénistiques: Epicurisme, stoïcisme, Scepticisme follows close on the heels of his similar, though not identical, Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy. It performs the same valuable service for Francophone readers that was performed for Anglophone readers by the English volume: it makes available for the first time in French articles that originally appeared in English along with a selection of pieces first published in French.…Read more
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93Inference from signs: ancient debates about the nature of evidenceOxford University Press. 2001.Original and penetrating, this book investigates of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. It examines an important chapter in ancient epistemology: the debates about the nature of evidence and of the inferences based on it--or signs and sign-inferences as they were called in antiquity. As the first comprehensive treatment of this topic, it fills an important gap in the histories of science and philosophy.
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38Pyrrhonism and medicineIn Richard Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 232. 2010.
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98Academic probabilism and Stoic epistemologyClassical Quarterly 44 (1): 85. 1994.Developments in the Academy from the time of Arcesilaus to that of Carneades and his successors tend to be classified under two heads: scepticism and probabilism. Carneades was principally responsible for the Academy's view of the latter subject, and our sources credit him with an elaborate discussion of it. The evidence furnished by those sources is, however, frequently confusing and sometimes self-contradictory. My aim in this paper is to extract a coherent account of Carneades' theory of prob…Read more
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