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Tables of Contents for Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism
Chapter/Section Title
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Principal Texts
xvi
Introduction: Scepticism and Rationally Justified Belief
1
20
The sceptic's target
1
8
Global scepticism about rational justification
9
6
Pyrrhonism and global scepticism
15
6
Pyrrho's Connection with Pyrrhonean Scepticism
21
17
The origins of Pyrrho's philosophical views
21
4
Pyrrho's epistemological nihilism
25
5
The fiction of an unbroken Pyrrhonean succession
30
8
Arcesilaus and Suspension of Judgement
38
18
Socratic dialectic and Arcesilaus' suspension of judgement
38
6
A non-normative account of Arcesilaus' suspension of judgement
44
10
An ongoing problem
54
2
The New Academy and the Origins of Aenesidemean Pyrrhonism
56
16
Sextus and Aenesidemus
56
2
Carneades and the New Academy
58
2
Carneades, plausibility, and assent
60
9
The New Academy after Carneades
69
3
Pyrrhonism from Aenesidemus to Sextus Empiricus
72
47
Aenesidemus of Cnossus
72
8
Pyrrhonism after Aenesidemus
80
6
Pyrrhonism and the art of medicine
86
13
Sextus Empiricus: his life and writings
99
20
An Outline of Sextus' Pyrrhonism
119
28
Ends and means
119
3
The limits of επoχη
122
4
The arguments
126
9
Pyrrhonism and non-demonstrative reasoning
135
2
Disingenuous ad hominem arguments
137
5
Catachresis and statements about the way things are
142
3
Conclusions
145
2
A Life without Beliefs?
147
28
An alleged distinction between belief and assent to appearances
147
2
Four kinds of appearance-statement
149
4
Bypassing belief without bypassing truth?
153
4
Sextus and the truth-valueless thesis
157
8
The implications of Sextus' use of appearance-statements
165
10
Pyrrhonism and Common Sense
175
39
An unlikely champion of ordinary life
175
6
Some initial objections
181
13
Pyrrhonism's rejection of our everyday beliefs
194
20
The prevalence of the objection that the Pyrrhonist cannot live his scepticism
194
2
The interplay between philosophical doctrines and everyday beliefs
196
4
The equipollence of philosophical arguments and arguments drawn from common sense
200
8
Aenesidemus' ten tropes
208
2
The goal of Pyrrhonism
210
4
Is the Pyrrhonist a Proto-Phenomenalist?
214
42
Justified beliefs about appearances
214
4
The supporting evidence
218
3
Does the Pyrrhonist succeed in eschewing all beliefs about matters of objective fact?
221
13
Sextus' rejection of induction
234
13
Agrippa's tropes and our knowledge of our current impressions
247
9
Arguments and Reasons
256
11
Some preliminary remarks
256
1
The impact of the Pyrrhonist's epistemological arguments
257
7
The Pyrrhonist's relationship to his own arguments
264
3
Pyrrhonism and Constrained Belief
267
24
Arguments that prove too much
267
3
Obligation and constraint
270
6
The Pyrrhonist's endorsement of the commemorative sign
276
3
Impressions and hidden beliefs about matters of objective fact
279
5
Practical Pyrrhonism
284
7
Select Bibliography
291
6
Index
297