Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of
the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of
skepticism--including externalists, contextualists,
foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one
particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or
Academic skepticism, which makes the radical claim that nobody can
know anything. However, this version of skepticism is something of
a straw man, since virtually no philosopher endorses this radical
skeptical claim. The only skeptical view that has been truly
held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently,
Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics
do not assert Cartesian skepticism, but neither do they deny it.
The Pyrrhonian skeptics' doubts run so deep that they suspend
belief even about Cartesian skepticism and its denial. Nonetheless,
some Pyrrhonians argue that they can still hold "common beliefs of
everyday life" and can even claim to know some truths in an
everyday way.
This edited volume presents previously unpublished articles on this
subject by a strikingly impressive group of philosophers, who
engage with both historical and contemporary versions of Pyrrhonian
skepticism. Among them are Gisela Striker, Janet Broughton, Don
Garrett, Ken Winkler, Hans Sluga, Ernest Sosa, Michael Williams,
Barry Stroud, Robert Fogelin, and Roy Sorensen. This volume is
thematically unified and will interest a broad spectrum of scholars
in epistemology and the history of philosophy.
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