Rethinking the history of skepticism : the missing medieval background / / edited by Henrik Lagerlund.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, Bd. 103
• TeilnehmendeR: Lagerlund, Henrik.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 103.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 Latin in the Sixteenth century. It is the aim of this book to show that this is not true and that the history of skepticism must be rewritten. It is only once the rich discussions of both epistemological and external-world skepticism in the Middle Ages are included that the whole history of skepticism can be written, and only then can the development of modern thought be understood. This book begins this rewriting of the history of skepticism by tracing discussions of skepticism from Al-Ghazali to sixteenth century Paris. Contributors are Taneli Kukkonen, Martin Pickave, Claude Panaccio, David Piche, Christophe Grellard, Gyula Klima, Dominik Perler, Henrik Lagerlund, and Elizabeth Karger

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / H. Lagerlund -- A History Of Skepticism In The Middle Ages / Henrik Lagerlund -- Al-Ghazālī’S Skepticism Revisited / Taneli 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 -- Bibliography / H. Lagerlund -- Index Of Names / H. Lagerlund.