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Sceptical Paths : Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present /

Sceptical Paths offers a fresh look at key junctions in the history of scepticism. Throughout this collection, key figures are reinterpreted, key arguments are reassessed, lesser-known figures are reintroduced, accepted distinctions are challenged, and new ideas are explored. The historiography of s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haliva, Racheli (Editor ), Schmid, Stephan (Editor ), Spinelli, Emidio (Editor ), Veltri, Giuseppe (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Studies and Texts in Scepticism ; 6
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Philo of Alexandria vs. Descartes: An Ignored Jewish Premonitory Critic of the Cogito / Lévy, Carlos
  • Sextus ?mpiricus's use of dunamis / Marchand, Stéphane
  • Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value/ Machuca, Diego E.
  • endoxa and the Theology of Aristotle in Avicenna's "Flying Man": Contexts for Similarities with Sceptical and Cartesian Arguments in Avicenna / Eichner, Heidrun
  • The Problem of Many Gods in al-Ghazālī, Averroes, Maimonides, Crescas, and Sforno / Harvey, Warren Zev
  • What is Maimonidean Scepticism/ Stern, Josef
  • Medieval Scepticism and Divine Deception / Lagerlund, Henrik
  • Spinoza on Global Doubt / León Serrano, José María Sánchez de
  • Scepticism in Early Modern Times / Charles, Sébastien
  • Three Varieties of Early Modern Scepticism / Schmid, Stephan
  • Narrowing of "Know" as a Contextualist Strategy against Cartesian Sceptical Conclusions / Hernández, Nancy Abigail Nuñez
  • List of Contributors
  • Index