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.