Annual Lecture at MCAS

The Annual Lecture at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg University) will be given by Julie Klein (Villanova University) on October 30. The lecture's title is “Scepticism in Spinoza and the Project of Critique”. For more information, click here.

Suspension of Belief

On October, 26–27, the University of Mannheim will host the workshop “Suspension of Belief”. Here's the workshop's presentation:

We often suspend belief. Some questions we haven’t considered yet, others are still under investigation, and yet others seem to allow for no definite answer. We often withhold belief and, more importantly, we do so rationally. Despite its core role in our doxastic everyday life, suspension of belief has not received much attention in the epistemological literature, which has mainly focused on positive belief alone. The workshop will fill this lacuna and investigate the nature and rational profile of suspension of belief.

Confirmed speakers include Wolfgang Freitag, Tim Kraft, Sven Lauer, Errol Lord, Sven Rosenkranz, Hans Rott, Miriam Schoenfield, Marc Andree Weber, Nadja-Mira Yolcu. The program and abstracts can be found here.

Systematic Skepticism

Next Friday (October 12th), from 10h45 to 12h45, Stéphane Marchand (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) will give the talk “Le scepticisme est-il systématique?” at the Université de Liège (Belgium), Place du 20-août, 7, Salle de l'Horloge. Then, from 14h to 17h, there will be a reading workshop on “Hume: scepticisme et système(s)” hosted by Éléonore Le Jallé (Université de Lille).

Brill Studies in Skepticism

The new series Brill Studies in Skepticism has now an updated website, which you can check here. The first two volumes will be published at the beginning of next year.

Skepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Just out: Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought, edited by R. Haliva (Walter de Gruyter, 2018). More information here.

Issue 8.3 of IJSS

Issue 8.3 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. It features articles by Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira and Kim Davies; a book symposium with contributions by Penelope Maddy, Barry Stroud, Annalisa Coliva, and Adam Leite; and book reviews by Mark Spencer and Ted Poston. It can be accessed here.

Jewish Averroism

On November 12-14, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg University) will host the conference “Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Jewish Averroism”. More information is found here.

Pyrrhonian Modes

On September 6-7, there will be a workshop on the different sets of Pyrrhonian modes at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Hamburg University. For more information, go here.

Moral Realism/Anti-Realism

In recent posts, I referred to new books dealing with moral skepticism. To this list, I should now add Thomas Pölzler's Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences (Routledge, 2018).

Book on Jewish Skepticism

Giuseppe Veltri's new book, Alienated Wisdom: Enquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Scepticism, has just been published by Walter de Gruyter. For more information, go here.

Pyrrhonian Argumentation

My paper “Pyrrhonian Argumentation: Therapy, Dialectic, and Inquiry” -- forthcoming in Apeiron -- is now available online ahead of print.

Debunking Arguments

Hanno Sauer's Debunking Arguments in Ethics has just been published by Cambridge University Press. I haven't been able to take a closer a look at it yet, but it looks like a fine addition to the growing literature on the topic.

Epistemology in Latin America

For what it's worth, my entry “Epistemology in Latin America” -- one of whose sections deals with skepticism -- has just been published in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 

Sextus's Adversus Mathematicos

A new English translation of Sextus Empiricus's Adversus Mathematicos has just been published: Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines, translated with introduction and notes by Richard Bett (OUP, 2018). For more information, go here.