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  title info:
    title: Five modes of scepticism
    sub title: Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan modes
  name:
    name part: Sienkiewicz, Stefan
    name part: 1986-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: '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.
  note: Stefan Sienkiewicz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-198) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Empiricus
      name part: Sextus
  subject:
    topic: Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Skepticism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
  classification: B525 .S54 2019
  classification: 186
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford philosophical monographs
  identifier: 0198798369
  identifier: 9780198798361
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 181018
    record change date: 20191021075318.0
    record identifier: in00004071993