Sceptical Paths : Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present

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
Autor Corporativo: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Haliva, Racheli (Editor), Haliva, Racheli, editor (editor), Schmid, Stephan, editor, Spinelli, Emidio, editor, Veltri, Giuseppe, editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019
Berlin ; Boston : [2019]
Colección:Studies and Texts in Scepticism
Materias:
Philosophy
Judaism
Jewish studies
Jewish philosophy.
Scepticism.
early modern philosophy.
medieval philosophy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Philo of Alexandria vs. Descartes: An Ignored Jewish Premonitory Critic of the Cogito
  • Sextus Εmpiricus's use of dunamis
  • Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
  • endoxa and the Theology of Aristotle in Avicenna's "Flying Man": Contexts for Similarities with Sceptical and Cartesian Arguments in Avicenna
  • The Problem of Many Gods in al-Ghazālī, Averroes, Maimonides, Crescas, and Sforno
  • What is Maimonidean Scepticism?
  • Medieval Scepticism and Divine Deception
  • Spinoza on Global Doubt
  • Scepticism in Early Modern Times
  • Three Varieties of Early Modern Scepticism
  • Narrowing of "Know" as a Contextualist Strategy against Cartesian Sceptical Conclusions
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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