Sextus, Montaigne, Hume : Pyrrhonizers

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ribeiro, Brian C. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Brill studies in skepticism ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Pyrrhon, > of Elis.
Sextus, > Empiricus.
Montaigne, Michel de, > 1533-1592.
Hume, David, > 1711-1776.
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Skepticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Reality of Epistemic Akrasia
  • 1. Epistemic Akrasia
  • 2. What Would Epistemic Akrasia Involve?
  • 3. Epistemic Akrasia Is Actual (and, Therefore, Possible)
  • 4. Concluding Remarks (and Looking Forward)
  • 2. Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Exercises in Skeptical Cartography
  • 1. Sextus Empiricus
  • 2. Michel de Montaigne
  • 3. David Hume
  • 4. Concluding Remarks
  • 3. Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonism as Aspirational
  • 1. Is Pyrrhonism Psychologically Possible?
  • 2. Scope of Pyrrhonian Epoche
  • 3. Role of Pyrrhonian Epoche: Skepticism as a Eudaimonistic Ethic
  • 4. Particularly Problematic Beliefs and Ataraxia
  • 5. Psychological Possibility of Pyrrhonism
  • 6. Postscript
  • 4. Montaigne's Essays and/as Pyrrhonism
  • 1. Approaching Montaigne's Essays
  • 2. Presence of the Ancients in the Essays
  • 3. Montaigne with Sextus and Cicero
  • 4. Montaigne's Skeptical Allegiance in the "Apology"
  • 5. Is Montaigne Really a Pyrrhonist?
  • 6. Montaigne's Pyrrhonian Turn to Self-Examination
  • 7. Montaigne's Essays: Writing as Pyrrhonizing
  • 5. Failing to be Responsive to Reasons: Unbudging Faith, Irresistible Beliefs
  • 1. Hume on Montaigne's (Doubt-Resistant) "Faith"
  • 2. Humean Maneuver
  • 3. Rational Self-Control, Part 1
  • 4. Rational Self-Control, Part 2
  • 5. Concluding Remarks
  • 6. Pyrrhonian Threads in the Great Humean Tapestry
  • 1. Hume's "Naturalism"?
  • 2. So, Was Hume a Skeptic Then?
  • 3. There Is No Satisfying Way to Interpret (All of) Hume
  • 4. Skeptical Threads of the Great Humean Tapestry
  • 7. Hume on the "Durability" of Skepticism
  • 1. Treatise ofHuman Nature (1739/1740)
  • 2. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748)
  • 3. Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779)
  • 4. Humility and Faith in Early Modern Philosophy
  • 5. Concluding Remarks
  • 8. Fruits of Skepticism
  • 1. Skepticism and Open-Minded Inquiry
  • 2. Skepticism and Mental Tranquility
  • 3. Skepticism and the Inward Turn
  • 4. Skepticism and Intellectual Modesty
  • 5. Parting Remarks.

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