TY - BOOK AU - Veltri,Giuseppe AU - Haliva,Racheli AU - Schmid,Stephan AU - Spinelli,Emidio TI - Sceptical Paths: Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present T2 - Studies and Texts in Scepticism Ser. SN - 9783110591040 PY - 2019/// CY - Berlin/Boston PB - Walter de Gruyter GmbH KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Philo of Alexandria vs. Descartes: An Ignored Jewish Premonitory Critic of the Cogito -- Sextus (SF(Bmpiricus's use of dunamis -- Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? -- endoxa and the Theology of Aristotle in Avicenna's "Flying Man": Contexts for Similarities with Sceptical and Cartesian Arguments in Avicenna -- The Problem of Many Gods in al-Ghazālī, Averroes, Maimonides, Crescas, and Sforno -- What is Maimonidean Scepticism? -- Medieval Scepticism and Divine Deception -- Spinoza on Global Doubt -- Scepticism in Early Modern Times -- Three Varieties of Early Modern Scepticism -- Narrowing of "Know" as a Contextualist Strategy against Cartesian Sceptical Conclusions -- List of Contributors -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ostimteknik/detail.action?docID=6637506 ER -