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Five Modes of Scepticism Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan Modes 1st edition by Stefan Sienkiewicz ISBN 0192519271 9780192519276

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Author(s): Stefan Sienkiewicz

ISBN(s): 9780198798361, 0198798369

Edition: Hardcover

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Year: 2019

Language: English

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Author: Stefan Sienkiewicz

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.

Five Modes of Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan Modes 1st Table of contents:

1. The Mode of Disagreement

Some Features of Disagreement
Kinds of Disagreement
Is the Sceptic Part of the Disagreement?
Disagreement and Undecided Disagreement
Principles of Disagreement
Two Accounts of the Sorts of Beliefs a Sceptic Can Hold
A Dogmatic Mode of Disagreement
The Method of Equipollence
A Sceptical Mode of Disagreement
Chronicling Disagreement and Creating Disagreement
Concluding Remarks

2. The Mode of Hypothesis

When the Mode of Hypothesis Occurs
What Hypothesizing Is Not
What Hypothesizing Is
The Function of Hypothesizing
Three Modes of Hypothesis
A Sceptical Mode of Hypothesis
The Mode of Hypothesis as a Limiting Case of the Method of Equipollence
Concluding Remarks

3. The Mode of Infinite Regression

Infinity Introduced
The Unacceptability of Infinitely Regressive Arguments
The Unsurveyability of Infinitely Regressive Arguments
Infinite Regression and the Suspension of Judgement
A Dogmatic Mode of Infinite Regression
A Sceptical Mode of Infinite Regression
Concluding Remarks

4. The Mode of Reciprocity

Reciprocity Parallel to Infinite Regression
Formal Reciprocity
Regressive Reciprocity
Conceptual Reciprocity
The Unacceptability of Reciprocal Arguments
Two Kinds of Priority
Asymmetry and Transitivity
From Reciprocity to the Suspension of Judgement
A Dogmatic Mode of Reciprocity
A Sceptical Mode of Reciprocity
Concluding Remarks

5. The Mode of Relativity

Modes of Relativity
The Logical Form of Sextus’ Argument
Sub-Argument 1
Sub-Argument 2
Sub-Argument 3
The Nature of Sextan Relativity
The Mode of Relativity and the Other Agrippan Modes
Relativity and Disagreement
Concluding Remarks

6. The Modes Combined

Preliminary Remarks
Net 1
Net 2
The Modes Recombined
Actual Disagreement, Possible Disagreement, and the Giving of Reasons
Dogmatic Nets
Concluding Remarks

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