Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / 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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (232 pages)
ISBN:
9783110591040
Series Statement:
Studies and Texts in Scepticism Ser. v.6
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6637506
Language:
English
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