The Sceptics is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus. Tracing the evolution of scepticism from 500 B.C to A.D 200, this clear and rigorous analysis presents the arguments of the Greek sceptics in their historical context and provides an in-depth study of the various strands of the sceptical tradition.
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'Hankinson does a careful job ... he enters areas of current controversy wth judicious reflections, sometimes challenging the most recent work in the field.' - Mind
'The book is now, and likely to remain for a while, the best introduction in English to ancient scepticism' - Julia Annas, University of Arizona
'The book is now, and likely to remain for a while, the best introduction in English to ancient scepticism' - Julia Annas, University of Arizona
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R. J. Hankinson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Decent broad overview in a historial context,
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These are the real skeptics. Forget silly paranormal refuters who have coopted the name. It is a decent outline of the ancient philosophers who have doubted. A good introduction, but read the primary texts
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The student of ancient philosophy is in a position at once more fascinating and more frustrating than that of his colleagues who work in less antique disciplines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dogmatic rashness, cataleptic impression, external underlying objects, ontological scepticism, genuine scepticism, undecidable dispute, negative dogmatism, apprehensive impression, sceptical way, ten modes, commemorative signs, apparent things, sceptical attack, sceptical argument, indicative sign, affective property, additional belief, dogmatic claims, sceptical position, suspending judgement, practical criterion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Outline of Empiricism, Pyrrhonian Discourses, Essential Realist, First Mode, Second Mode, Essential Realism, Five Modes, Micawber Policy, Third Mode, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Essential Scepticism, Modes of Agrippa, Philo of Larissa, Sextus Empiricus, Cicero's Academica, Concessive Method, Mode of Reciprocity, Seventh Mode, Sixth Mode, Diodorus Cronus, Material Modes, Middle Ages, Reciprocal Mode, Metrodorus of Chios New!
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The student of ancient philosophy is in a position at once more fascinating and more frustrating than that of his colleagues who work in less antique disciplines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dogmatic rashness, cataleptic impression, external underlying objects, ontological scepticism, genuine scepticism, undecidable dispute, negative dogmatism, apprehensive impression, sceptical way, ten modes, commemorative signs, apparent things, sceptical attack, sceptical argument, indicative sign, affective property, additional belief, dogmatic claims, sceptical position, suspending judgement, practical criterion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Outline of Empiricism, Pyrrhonian Discourses, Essential Realist, First Mode, Second Mode, Essential Realism, Five Modes, Micawber Policy, Third Mode, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Essential Scepticism, Modes of Agrippa, Philo of Larissa, Sextus Empiricus, Cicero's Academica, Concessive Method, Mode of Reciprocity, Seventh Mode, Sixth Mode, Diodorus Cronus, Material Modes, Middle Ages, Reciprocal Mode, Metrodorus of Chios New!
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- On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics) by Titus Lucretius Carus on 6 pages
- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Great Books in Philosophy) by Sextus Empiricus on 4 pages
- The Presocratic Philosophers (Arguments of the Philosophers) by Jonathan Barnes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On the Natural Faculties by Galen on page 216, and Back Matter
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