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

• Superior document: Studies and Texts in Scepticism Series ; v.6
• Author: Veltri, Giuseppe.
• TeilnehmendeR: Haliva, Racheli.; Schmid, Stephan.; Spinelli, Emidio.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies and Texts in Scepticism Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- 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.