Skeptizismus

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"Pyrrhonian skepticism is defined by its commitment to inquiry. The Greek work skepsis means inquiry -- not doubt, or whatever else later forms of skepticism took to be at the core of skeptical philosophy. Sextus Empiricus's writings offer the most sophisticated and detailed ver…

L'intera vicenda del pensiero occidentale, dalle più remote origini greco-romane sino ai dibattiti che caratterizzano lo stato attuale della ricerca in filosofia, è segnata in profondità dalla cosiddetta "sfida scettica". Le domande che questa sfida pone sono infatti della più g…

Katja Maria Vogt's Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about the difference between belief and knowledge. Beliefs -- doxai -- are deficient cognitive attitudes. In believing something, one accepts some content as true without knowing that i…

Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgment in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since its beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an engaging, rigorous introduct…