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Five Modes of Scepticism examines the argument forms that lie at
the heart of Pyrrhonian scepticism as expressed in the writings of
Sextus Empiricus. These are the Agrippan modes of disagreement,
hypothesis, infinite regression, reciprocity and relativity; modes
which are supposed to bring about that quintessentially sceptical
mental state of suspended judgement. Stefan Sienkiewicz analyses
how the modes are supposed to do this, both individually and
collectively, and from two perspectives. On the one hand there is
the perspective of the sceptic's dogmatic opponent and on the other
there is the perspective of the sceptic himself. Epistemically
speaking, the dogmatist and the sceptic are two different creatures
with two different viewpoints. The book elucidates the
corresponding differences in the argumentative structure of the
modes depending on which of these perspectives is adopted. Previous
treatments of the modes have interpreted them from a dogmatic
perspective; one of the tasks of the present work is to reorient
the way in which scholars have traditionally engaged with the
modes. Sienkiewicz advocates moving away from the perspective of
the sceptic's opponent - the dogmatist - towards the perspective of
the sceptic and trying to make sense of how the sceptic can come to
suspend judgement on the basis of the Agrippan modes.
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