New Volume of Sképsis

Volume 12 of the Brazilian journal Sképsis is now out. You can access the papers for free here.

CFP Special Issue on Vuillemin on Ancient Skepticism

Following a one-day workshop devoted to the approach of the French philosopher Jules Vuillemin to ancient scepticism, which took place at the Archives Henri Poincaré at Nancy (France) on December the 6th 2014, the journal Philosophia Scientiae organises a special issue devoted to this theme, edited by Lorenzo Corti and Joseph Vidal-Rosset. On this occasion, we encourage submissions on Jules Vuillemin’s discussion of ancient scepticism.

Vuillemin deals with ancient scepticism in several loci of his work. In his Nécessité ou contingence?, having reconstructed the Dominator argument and three ancient reactions to it attested by Epictetus, he analyzes some ancient positions that defended contingency by dropping one of the implicit premises of the argument. One of these positions is that of Carneades, as attested in Cicero’s De Fato (Nécessité et Contingence?, 231-51). At the end of the same book, Vuillemin characterizes a few philosophical systems by the way in which they react to the Dominator argument. These include scepticism – i.e. the scepticism of Carneades, somehow understood as an ʻancient Humeʼ (Nécessité et Contingence?, 400-6). In his article ʻUne morale est-elle compatible avec le scepticisme ?ʼ (Philosophie 7 (1985), 21-51), Vuillemin asks the question mentioned in the title as far as four varieties of scepticism are concerned. In his « La justice par convention; signification philosophique de la doctrine de Rawls » (Dialectica 41, n°1-2 (1987), pp. 155-166), Vuillemin assimilates Rawls’ approach to justice to that of an Academic sceptic. This thematic issue of Philosophia Scientiae aims at inquiring into the multiple facets of the attitude of an atypical contemporary philosopher to ancient scepticism.

The submitted manuscripts will be published subject to peer-review. All papers have to be prepared for peer-review blind refereeing. Manuscripts should be submitted in French, English, or German, and prepared for anonymous peer review. Abstracts in French and English of 200-300 words in length should be included. Articles should not exceed 50,000 characters (spaces and footnotes included).

Please send submissions to:

Lorenzo Corti <lorenzo.corti@univ-lorraine.fr>

Joseph Vidal-Rosset <joseph.vidal-rosset@univ-lorraine.fr>

Bayle's Oeuvre Online

The complete works of the French skeptic Pierre Bayle have been made available online by the French publisher Classiques Garnier. You can find them here.

EDIT: it seems that the link here does not give access unless your institution is subscribed. I was sent an email with the link by Garnier and I can still have access when I click on the link in the email, but clearly the "path" to the site must be different.

Early View IJSS

A few more early-view pieces to appear in the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism have just been published online here.

Verbatim Copy

In order to dispel any potential misunderstanding, there is a new book series devoted to Plato whose submission guidelines are a verbatim copy of the submission guidelines of Brill Studies in Skepticism. I say this so that no one thinks that it's the other way around. Anyway, I would have expected a little more effort from its editor.