Session III: Thursday, 25th March 2021, 12:00-13:30 US Central Time (= 17:00-18:30 GMT). [Note that, in the US, this session will start one hour later than previous sessions because of the Daylight Saving Time.]
Roger Clarke (Queen's University Belfast).
Title: “Context-Relative Belief and Skepticism in Sextus Empiricus, Nāgārjuna, and Zhuangzi.”
Abstract: Several philosophers have recently defended accounts of belief as context-relative or -sensitive in one way or another. I introduce my favourite of these, Roger Clarke’s sensitivism, and use it to give novel reconstructions of three often-compared ancient skeptics: Sextus Empiricus, Nāgārjuna, and Zhuangzi. Because belief plays a central role in the sort of skepticism attributed to each of them, one might hope new theories of belief would offer new interpretive possibilities. I’ll attempt to show not only that that hope can indeed be fulfilled—that my sensitivist reconstructions can help answer outstanding problems—but that contemporary epistemologists can benefit from scholarship on these three philosophers. (Put more crudely: I’ll exploit them to defend my pet theory against objections.)
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