Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism

✍ Scribed by Alan Bailey

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Alan Bailey offers a clear and vigorous exposition and defence of the philosophy of Sextus Empiricus, one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, the father of philosophical scepticism. The subsequent sceptical tradition in philosophy has not done justice to Sextus: his views stand up today as remarkably insightful, offering a fruitful way to approach issues of knowledge, understanding, belief, and rationality. Bailey's refreshing presentation of Sextus to a modern philosophical readership rescues scepticism from the sceptics.

✦ Table of Contents

Sextus Ernpiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism......Page 1
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Contents......Page 19
Principal Texts......Page 22
1. Introduction: Scepticism and Rationally Justified Belief......Page 23
2. Pyrrho's Connection with Pyrrhonean Scepticism......Page 43
3. Arcesilaus and Suspension of Judgement......Page 60
4. The New Academy and the Origins of Aenesidemean Pyrrhonism......Page 78
5. Pyrrhonism from Aenesidemus to Sextus Empiricus......Page 94
6. An Outline of Sextus' Pyrrhonism......Page 141
7. A Life without Beliefs?......Page 169
8. Pyrrhonism and Common Sense......Page 197
9. Is the Pyrrhonist a Proto-Phenomenalist?......Page 236
10. Arguments and Reasons......Page 278
11. Pyrrhonism and Constrained Belief......Page 289
Select Bibliography......Page 313
Index......Page 319