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Pyrrhonism Past and Present

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 450)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91210-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-91209-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 29, 2022

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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The Motivation, the Approach, the Plan

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 1 –21

[In this chapter, I first suggest that a person’s adoption or rejection of skepticism rests not only on his assessment of evidence and arguments, but also on his temperament and personality. I then argue that, given both the central part played by skepticism in the history of philosophy from...
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Pyrrhonian Inquiry

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 25 –54

[In this chapter, I explore the skeptic’s engagement in inquiry or investigation. I defend the view that Sextus describes both the prospective Pyrrhonist and the full-fledged Pyrrhonist as inquirers into truth, and that the full-fledged Pyrrhonist can, without inconsistency, inquire into truth....
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Argumentation and Persuasiveness

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 55 –79

[This chapter has three aims. The first is to shed some light on Sextus’s distinction between therapeutically “weighty” and “weak” arguments. The second aim is to determine whether the Pyrrhonist’s therapeutic use of arguments is consistent with both their dialectical use and their employment in...
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The Agrippan Modes and the Challenge of Disagreement

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 81 –104

[This chapter is devoted to the Five Modes of Agrippa, with a special focus on the mode from disagreement. It is argued (i) that the mode from disagreement does not play a secondary role in inducing suspension of judgment; (ii) that the Pyrrhonist is not committed to the requirements on...
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Pyrrhonian Rationality

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 105 –130

[Is the Pyrrhonist committed to the requirements of rationality? Or is he rather an anti-rationalist? The present chapter offers answers to these questions by examining the Pyrrhonist’s stance on the law of non-contradiction, his conception of suspension of judgment, and his use of reason. It is...
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The Epistemology of Disagreement

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 133 –159

[In this chapter, I take a neo-Pyrrhonian approach to the current epistemological debate between conciliationists and steadfasters about how one ought to rationally respond to peer disagreement. After offering an overview of this debate, I argue that both parties make contentious assumptions. I...
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Personal Information as Symmetry Breaker

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 161 –173

[Some epistemologists maintain that, in the face of many disagreements, one can legitimately stick to one’s guns by relying, at least in part, on introspectively acquired information about one’s own mental states and the normal functioning of one’s own cognitive capacities. In the present...
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The Limits of Self-Knowledge

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 175 –213

[The aim of this chapter is to strengthen the case against the appeal to personal information as an effective strategy for resolving disagreements by considering a wide range of experimental research on overconfidence, the bias blind spot, introspection, and confabulation. Reviewing the results...
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The Disagreeing About Disagreement Argument

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 215 –230

[A serious objection that has been raised to conciliationism, and particularly to the Equal Weight View, is that it is self-defeating or self-undermining. The reason is that its proponent is forced to give equal weight to it and to the opposite view in the event that one of his epistemic peers...
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The Nature of Rationality

Machuca, Diego E.

Pages: 231 –248

[In this chapter, I set myself two tasks. The first is to assess whether the Pyrrhonist is (ir)rational from the perspective of distinct accounts of the nature of rationality that have been proposed in the contemporary literature on the theory of rationality. The second task is to review the...

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