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Cambridge companion to ancient scepticism - New York Cambridge University Press 2010 - xii,380p. 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to philosophy .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Antecedents in early Greek philosophy / Mi-Kyoung Lee -- Pyrrho and early Pyrrhonism / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson -- Arcesilaus and Carneades / Harald Thorsrud -- The sceptical Academy: decline and afterlife / Carlos Lévy -- Aenesidemus and the rebirth of Pyrrhonism / R.J. Hankinson -- Sextus Empiricus / Pierre Pellegrin -- Scepticism and belief / Casey Perin -- Scepticism and action / Katja Maria Vogt -- Scepticism and ethics / Richard Bett -- Academics versus Pyrrhonists, reconsidered / Gisela Striker -- The Pyrrhonian Modes / Paul Woodruff -- Pyrrhonism and medicine / James Allen -- Pyrrhonism and the specialized sciences / Emidio Spinelli -- The rediscovery and posthumous influence of scepticism / Luciano Floridi -- Descartes' transformation of the sceptical tradition / Michael Williams.

ISBN: 9780521697545

LCCN: 2009036361

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA999491 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015391266 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Skepticism--Rome.

LC Class. No.: B525 / .C36 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 186 / CA-