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The Cambridge companion to ancient scepticism

Author: Richard Arnot Home Bett
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series: Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This work offers a survey of the main periods, schools and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. It examines major developments from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition and addresses the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas.
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Arnot Home Bett
ISBN: 9780521874762 0521874769 9780521697545 0521697549
OCLC Number: 428024397
Description: xii, 380 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I: Origins and development. Antecedents in early Greek philosophy / Mi-Kyoung Lee ; Pyrrho and early Pyrrhonism / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson ; Arcesilaus and Carneades / Harald Thorsrud ; The sceptical Academy: decline and afterlife / Carlos Lévy ; Aenesidemus and the rebirth of Pyrrhonism / R.J. Hankinson ; Sextus Empiricus / Pierre Pellegrin --
II: Topics and problems. Scepticism and belief / Casey Perin ; Scepticism and action / Katja Maria Vogt ; Scepticism and ethics / Richard Bett ; Academics versus Pyrrhonists, reconsidered / Gisela Striker ; The Pyrrhonian Modes / Paul Woodruff ; Pyrrhonism and medicine / James Allen ; Pyrrhonism and the specialized sciences / Emidio Spinelli --
III: Beyond antiquity. The rediscovery and posthumous influence of scepticism / Luciano Floridi ; Descartes' transformation of the sceptical tradition / Michael Williams.
Series Title: Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Responsibility: edited by Richard Bett.

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