Issue 12.4 of IJSS

Issue 12.4 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has been published. It includes articles by Brian Ribeiro, Mark Walker, Jacob Ohlhorst, and Abraham Lim, and a book review by Oren Hanner. It can be found here.

Call for Proposals for Monographs and Edited Volumes

Brill Studies in Skepticism

Dear scholars,

Are you working on a monograph or edited volume on the subject of philosophical skepticism? The editors of Brill Studies in Skepticism (BSS) would like to encourage you to submit proposals to be considered for publication in the book series. 

Conceived of as a supplement to the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, the series Brill Studies in Skepticism aims to publish original historical scholarship and cutting-edge contemporary research on philosophical skepticism. The series covers a wide range of areas: the history of ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary skepticism, as well as systematic discussions of skeptical problems and arguments in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Brill Studies in Skepticism therefore welcomes proposals for monographs and edited volumes from historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers working in a variety of methods and traditions.

All proposals are evaluated by the Series Editors with the assistance of the members of the Advisory Board. If the proposed monograph or edited volume is deemed to make an original contribution to the study of the history or significance of philosophical skepticism, the author or editor will be invited to submit a complete manuscript, which will undergo double-blind peer review.

Please visit www.brill.com/BSS to browse publications in the series.

Proposals can be sent to the Series Editors, Diego E. Machuca (diegomachuca@gmail.com) and Duncan Pritchard (dhpritch@uci.edu).

Editors

Diego E. Machuca (CONICET, Argentina)

Duncan Pritchard (University of California, Irvine)

Advisory Board

John Greco (Saint Louis University)

John Christian Laursen (University of California, Riverside)

Casey Perin (University of California, Irvine)

Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France)

Bergmann on Skepticism

Last year, Michael Bergmann published Radical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition (OUP). For information, go here. A symposium on this book will be published next year in the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism.

Issue 12.3 of IJSS

Issue 12.3 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has been published. It is devoted to a symposium on Mark Kaplan's Austin's Way with Skepticism (OUP, 2018), with contributions from Michael Williams, Adam Leite, Martin Gustafsson, and Kaplan. It can be found here.

Annual Lecture at MCAS

The 2022 Annual Lecture at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will take place on October, 25th at 18:00. Michael Friedrich (Universität Hamburg) will give the talk “Limits of Faith and Scepticism in Zhang Zai (1020–1078).” For more information, go here.

Brill Studies in Skepticism, Volume 5

The fifth volume of the book series Brill Studies in Skepticism is now out:

S. Hetherington and D. Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism: Essays in Epistemology and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2022).

More information can be found here.

Evolutionary Debunking Arguments

Some might be interested in this collective volume that has just been published:

D. Machuca (ed.), Evolutionary Debunking Arguments: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology (New York & Abingdon: Routledge).

More information can be found here.

Recent Articles on Ancient Skepticism

Over the past two years, several papers on ancient skepticism have been published. Here's a (partial) list in chronological and alphabetical order:

Machuca, Diego. “Can the Skeptic Search for Truth?” Elenchos 42 (2021): 321–349. Link.

Marchand, Stéphane. “Pyrrhonism and the Value of Law,” Polis 38 (2021): 573–587. Link.

Svavarsson, Svavar. “Disturbance in the Outlines of Sextus Empiricus,” Phronesis 66 (2021): 402–425. Link.

Allen, James. “Radicalism and Moderation in the New Academy,” Phronesis 67 (2022): 133–160. Link.

Dunphy, Robb. “From Proto-Sceptic to Sceptic in Sextus’ Outlines of Pyrrhonism,” Apeiron 55 (2022): 455–484. Link.

Spinelli, Emidio. “Dialectic and Sophisms: The Sceptical Dissolution of Dogmatic Logic,” Méthexis 34 (2022): 119–147. Link.

Society for Skeptical Studies at APA Meeting

This message is from James Beebe (Buffalo): “If you would like to organize a two- or three-hour session at the upcoming Pacific division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (San Francisco, April 5-8, 2023) under the auspices of the Society for Skeptical Studies, please send your idea/proposal to jbeebe2@buffalo.edu by Sept. 30.”

Morality, Emotions, and Skepticism

On August 22-23, 2022, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will host the hybrid workshop “Morality, Emotions and Scepticism.” Complete information can be found here.

Misrepresenting Sextan Pyrrhonism

I've tried to dispel certain serious misunderstandings of Sextus Empiricus's Pyrrhonism in this paper that has just been published:

“Experimental Evidence against Pyrrhonism: Attacking a Straw Man,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 61 (2022): 123–138.

Those interested can find it here.

Issue 12.2 of IJSS

The second issue of volume 12 (2022) of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has been published and can be found here.

MCAS Workshop

On June 14-15, 2022, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will host the hybrid workshop “Beyond Doubt: Prophetic Language and Esoteric Knowledge in Renaissance Kabbalah.” For full information, click here.

Society for Skeptical Studies

The Society for Skeptical Studies host sessions on the group programs of the three divisions of the American Philosophical Association. If you would like to help organize a two- or three-hour session at the upcoming Eastern APA meeting (Jan. 4-7, 2023, Montreal), please let James Beebe know right away at jbeebe2@buffalo.edu. If you would like to help organize sessions on a regular basis at one or more of APA meetings, please let him know that as well. 

Conference on Popkin on Judaism and Skepticism

On May 9-11, 2022, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will host the conference “Judaism and Scepticism in the Scholarship of Richard H. Popkin.” For complete information, including the program, click here.

Skepticism: Ancient & Contemporary

In case anyone is interested, tomorrow April 21st, from 16:00 to 18:00 European time, I'll give the talk “Skepticism: Ancient and Contemporary,” as part of the seminar series “Ancient Philosophy in Dialogue.” The talk will be online and the zoom link is this.

New Book on Uncertainty

The following collective volume will be published by the end of the month:

Anastasios Brenner & Brigitte Pérez-Jean (eds.), L'incertitude chez les anciens et les modernes. Paris: Honoré Champion.

More information can be found here.

Workshop on Ancient Pyrrhonism

On April 15th, from 10:00 to 18:00, there will be a workshop on ancient Pyrrhonism at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, organized by Stéphane Marchand. More information can be found here.

Pyrrhonism Past & Present

For what it's worth, my monograph has now been published:

Pyrrhonism Past and Present: Inquiry, Disagreement, Self-Knowledge, and Rationality (Cham: Springer, 2022).

More information can be found here.

Maimonides Lecture on Skepticism

The next Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism will take place on February 16th at 18:00 (Hamburg time). Ben Sommer (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York) will talk about “Intentional Ambiguity in the Pentateuch’s Revelation Narratives: Doubt as a Religious Value in the Lawgiving in Exodus.”  The lecture will be held online. You must register by sending an email to maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de.

Volume of MSP on Doubt

The latest volume of Midwest Studies in Philosophy (now edited by Yuval Avnur) is devoted to doubt. It contains 23 articles divided into four sections: (i) Historical Perspectives, (ii) Knowledge and Rational Belief, (iii) Social and Political Perspectives, and (iv) Inquiry, Success, and Language. The articles can be found here. 

Issue 12.1 of IJSS

The first issue of volume 12 (2022) of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has been published and can be found here. It is a special issue devoted to skepticism in India and edited by Ethan Mills and Matthew Dasti.

Maimonides Lecture on Skepticism

The next Maimonides Lecture on Skepticism will take place online on 10 January 2022, at 18:00 (local time). Dana Lloyd (Villanova University) will talk about “Religious Freedom and Land Rights: On Legal Language and Ethical Scepticism.” Complete information can be found here. For registration, send an email to maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de.