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1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) |
| Series |
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 0169-8028 ; Bd. 103 |
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Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 103.
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| Contents |
A history of skepticism in the Middle Ages / Henrik Lagerlund. -- Al-Ghazālī's skepticism revisited / Taneili Kukkonen. -- Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus on skepticism and the possibility of naturally acquired knowledge / Martin Pickavé. -- Ockham's reliabilism and the intuition of non-existents / Claude Panaccio and David Piché. -- Nicholas of Autrecourt's skepticism: the ambivalence of medieval epistemology / Christophe Grellard. -- The anti-skepticism of John Buridan and Thomas Aquinas: putting skeptics in their place versus stopping them in their tracks / Gyula Klima. -- Does God deceive us? Skeptical hypotheses in late medieval epistemology / Dominik Perler. -- Skeptical issues in commentaries on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: John Buridan and Albert of Saxony / Henrik Lagerlund. -- A Buridanian response to a fourteenth century skeptical argument and its rebuttal by a new argument in the early sixteenth century / Elizabeth Karger |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Skepticism -- History -- To 1500
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Skepticism -- History -- 16th century
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Rationalism.
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Philosophy, Medieval
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Skepticism
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Skeptizismus
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Erkenntnistheorie
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lagerlund, Henrik
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| LC no. |
2009022844 |
| ISBN |
9789047412106 |
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9047412109 |
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1283061260 |
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9781283061261 |
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9786613061263 |
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6613061263 |
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