Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Plato defined philosophy as the love of wisdom. Philosophers ever since have quested for the Truth. Sextus Empiricus suggests that maybe this pursuit is bound to fail. Things look one way when we are healthy, one way when we are sick, another way when we touch our eye, and other […]
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Two different ancient schools called themselves “skeptical”, the Academic Skeptics and the Pyrrhonian Skeptics. Both expressed fundamental doubts about the possibility of human knowledge. The Pyrrhonian school originated with Pyrrho of Elis (a city on the Greek Peloponnesian peninsula), and remained viable well into the common era when its precepts and arguments were recorded by
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What is knowledge? How much can we know? And how do we know anything? One major field of philosophy is the study of knowledge, i.e., “epistemology” (in Greek “epistémé” means knowledge and “logos” can mean study). In a series of sharp, focused, and well-animated video lectures, Jennifer Nagel introduces the contemporary field. The first episode
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