Augustine and Academic Skepticism

A few days ago, I came across a book that seems to have gone unnoticed, namely, Blake D. Dutton's Augustine and Academic Skepticism: A Philosophical Study (Cornell University Press, 2016). More information can be found here.

New Book on Ancient Skepticism

I'm glad to announce that the book Le scepticisme, by Stéphane Marchand, has just been published by Vrin. This is without a doubt an important addition to the scholarship on ancient skepticism in French. For more information, go here.

Early Modern (Anti-)Skepticism

On June 8, 2018, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will host the workshop “Early Modern (Anti-)Scepticism.” For complete information, click here.

Issue 8.2 of IJSS

Issue 8.2 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. It features articles by Ali Hasan and Chris Ranalli, and book reviews by Hal Thorsrud and Michael Hickson. It can be accessed here.

A History of Skepticism

I've just found out about this very recent book by Renata Zieminska (University of Szczecin, Poland): The History of Skepticism: In Search of Consistency (Peter Lang, 2017). Renata has published several papers on skepticism over the past few years, but I haven't had the chance to take a look at the book, so any comments on it will be welcome.

Sextus's Against the Grammarians

Stéphane Marchand has just called my attention to an annotated Portuguese translation, by Joseane Prezotto, of part of Sextus Empiricus's Against the Grammarians that has been published in the Brazilian journal Hypnos. It can be found here.

Elenchos

For those who have been wondering, the Italian journal Elenchos, which over the years has published quite a few articles on ancient skepticism, will now be published by Walter de Gruyter. First edited by Gabriele Giannantoni and then by Anna Maria Ioppolo, the journal will now be edited by Francesca Alesse, Riccardo Chiaradonna, and Emidio Spinelli. The new journal's webpage can be found here.

Three Lectures on Skepticism

Next May, there will be a series of three lectures on skepticism (“Conoscenza, Plausibilità, Scetticismo: Tre Lezione tra Ricostruzione Storica e Riflessione Teorica”) at the Sapienza Università di Roma, Villa Mirafiori, Via Carlo Fea 2, room XI “M. M. Olivetti”.

May 21, 12.30-14.30: Carlo Cellucci, “Vero e plausibile”.

May 23, 14.30-16.30: Anna Maria Ioppolo, “Arcesilao nella storia dell’Accademia di Cicerone”.

May 28, 12.30-14.30: Emidio Spinelli, “Scettici differenti: Pirroniani contro Accademici”.

A Dialogue on External World Skepticism

A peculiar book discussing arguments for and against external world skepticism was published a couple of months ago: Eli Hirsch, Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt: A Philosophical Dialogue (Bloomsbury, 2018). To get a precise idea of its approach and contents, you can read a very recent review by Samuel Lebens in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

Contextualism and Skepticism

Nine years after the publication of the first volume of Keith DeRose's Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, the second is out: The Appearance of Ignorance (OUP, 2018).

Epistemic Contextualism

This relatively recent book will be of interest to those working on contextualism and skepticism: Peter Baumann, Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense (Oxford University Press, 2016).

New Book on Disagreement

A new book on disagreement has just been published: Casey Rebecca Johnson (ed.), Voicing Dissent: The Ethics and Epistemology of Making Disagreement Public (Routledge, 2018). Click here for more information.

Issue 8.1 of IJSS

Issue 8.1 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. It features articles by Thomas Lockhart and Jonathan Hill, a critical notice by John Greco, and book reviews by Chris Laursen and Jonas Olson. It can be accessed here.

Workshop on Haptic Skepticism

On March 27-28, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Hamburg will host a workshop on skepticism about the reliability of the sense of touch. The program isn't available yet, but you can find more information here.