Epicureanism & Skepticism

The following volume has just been published despite its official publication date: Stéphane Marchand & Francesco Verde (éds.), Épicurisme et Scepticisme (Roma: Sapienza Università Editrice, 2013). This collection derives from a conference held in Lyon in November 2012 and organized by Marchand. More information can be found on this webpage, but not the table of contents, so here it is:

Préface

Pierre-Marie Morel & Emidio Spinelli

Introduction

Stéphane Marchand & Francesco Verde

PREMIÈRE PARTIE : PROXIMITÉS DU SCEPTICISME ET DE L'ÉPICURISME

Tranquility: Democritus and Pyrrho 

Svavar Svavarsson

Chain of Proof in Lucretius, Sextus, and Plato: Rhetorical Tradition and Philosophy 

Michael Erler

Scepticisme et thérapeutique : le cas de conscience du dogmatisme épicurien 

Julie Giovacchini

Le statut particulier de la philosophie épicurienne dans le néo-pyrrhonisme 

Stéphane Marchand

DEUXIÈME PARTIE : ÉPICURISME, CYRÉNAÏSME, SCEPTICISME

Epicureans and Cyrenaics on Pleasure as a Pathos

James Warren

La critique du critère de vérité épicurien chez Sextus Empiricus : un scepticisme sur le monde extérieur ?

Diego Machuca

TROISIÈME PARTIE : SEXTUS EMPIRICUS, SOURCE DE L'ÉPICURISME

Epicurean Attitude toward Geometry: The Sceptical Account 

Francesco Verde

Sextus Empiricus et le τέλoς épicurien : le plaisir est-il par nature digne d’être choisi ?

Emidio Spinelli

IJSS: TOC on PhilPapers

You can now find the TOC of the first three volumes (eight issues from 2011 to 2013) of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism on PhilPapers.

Disagreement and Relativism

I haven't been able to post lately because I've been snowed under. So I couldn't let you know that the latest issue of Philosophy contains a nice paper by Steven Hales: "Motivations for Relativism as a Solution to Disagreements." It can be found here.

Three Talks on Sextus

Next Tuesday (January 14th), the Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne will host the workshop, "Travaux en cours sur le scepticisme antique," from 9.00 to 13.00 at the Centre Panthéon, Salle 11. Here's the program:

- Lorenzo Corti (Université de Lorraine): "Sextus, le nombre deux et le Phédon."

​- Stéphane Marchand (ENS de Lyon): "Scepticisme, empirisme et vie quotidienne."

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- ​Alfonso Correa (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): "Les choix des pyrrhoniens."

An Introduction to Skepticism

Bloomsbury (formerly Continuum) will soon publish Allan Hazlett's A Critical Introduction to Skepticism. For complete information, go here.