The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521874769 ISBN 13: 9780521874762

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.

About this title

Book Description:

This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. It will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.

About the Author:

Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. His previous publications include Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy (2000), and translations of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists (1997, with commentary) and Against the Logicians (2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521874769
• ISBN 13: 9780521874762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Bett Richard