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.

Author: Richard Bett
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/26/2010
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780521697545


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011

About the Author
Bett, Richard: - 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).