Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.36.4, pp. 2608-2695
 
Pyrrhonism, Belief and Causation. Observations on the Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus
by Jonathan Barnes, Oxford

Contents

I. Introduction

2608

1. Preface

2608

2. Suspension of Judgement

2609

3. Scepticism and the Doctors

2611

II. Belief

2617

1. Grades of Sceptical Involvement

2617

2. The Sceptic's Avowals

2623

3. Dogmata

2626

4. Sextus on Dogmata

2631

5. Common Sense

2637

III. Causation

2649

1. Scepticism and Causes

2649

2. Sextus' Strategy

2652

3. Advice to Aetiologists

2656

4. Aetiology Rebuffed

2661

5. The Concept of a Cause

2668

6. The Inconceivability of Causes

2676

7. Against Causes

2680

IV. Afterword

2689
Bibliography 2692
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