Rethinking the History of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background - Couverture rigide

9789004170612: Rethinking the History of Skepticism: The Missing Medieval Background

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ISBN 10 : 9004170618 ISBN 13 : 9789004170612

Editeur : Brill, 2009

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The history of skepticism usually ignores the Middle Ages. It is customary in most historical overviews to say that epistemological skepticism and external-world skepticism did not find its way into the Western philosophical tradition until Sextus Empiricus was rediscovered and retranslated into Latin in the Sixteenth century. It is the aim of this book to show that this is not true and that the history of skepticism must be rewritten. It is only once the rich discussions of both epistemological and external-world skepticism in the Middle Ages are included that the whole history of skepticism can be written, and only then can the development of modern thought be understood. This book begins this rewriting of the history of skepticism by tracing discussions of skepticism from Al-Ghazali to sixteenth century Paris.
Contributors are Taneli Kukkonen, Martin Pickave, Claude Panaccio, David Piche, Christophe Grellard, Gyula Klima, Dominik Perler, Henrik Lagerlund, and Elizabeth Karger

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� propos de l'auteur

Henrik Lagerlund, Ph.D. (1999) in Philosophy, Uppsala University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has published extensively on medieval philosophy including Modal Syllogistics in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2000), and among his edited books are Forming the Mind (Springer 2007) and Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy (Ashgate 2008). He is the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (Springer, forthcoming 2010).

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