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Rethinking the history of skepticism : the missing medieval background /

The history of skepticism usually ignores the Middle Ages. It is customary in most historical overviews to say that epistemological skepticism and external-world skepticism did not find its way into the Western philosophical tradition until Sextus Empiricus was rediscovered and retranslated into Lat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lagerlund, Henrik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 103.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A history of skepticism in the Middle Ages / Henrik Lagerlund.
  • Al-Ghazālī's skepticism revisited / Taneili Kukkonen.
  • Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus on skepticism and the possibility of naturally acquired knowledge / Martin Pickavé.
  • Ockham's reliabilism and the intuition of non-existents / Claude Panaccio and David Piché.
  • Nicholas of Autrecourt's skepticism: the ambivalence of medieval epistemology / Christophe Grellard.
  • The anti-skepticism of John Buridan and Thomas Aquinas: putting skeptics in their place versus stopping them in their tracks / Gyula Klima.
  • Does God deceive us? Skeptical hypotheses in late medieval epistemology / Dominik Perler.
  • Skeptical issues in commentaries on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: John Buridan and Albert of Saxony / Henrik Lagerlund.
  • A Buridanian response to a fourteenth century skeptical argument and its rebuttal by a new argument in the early sixteenth century / Elizabeth Karger.