Special Issue of Les Études Philosophiques

The second issue of volume 84 of Les Études Philosophiques is devoted to "Le scepticisme chrétien (XVIème-XVIIème siècles)". The online contents of the journal can be found here, but this issue isn't online yet. However, I've found the table of contents elsewhere:

Frédéric Gabriel: "Présentation: Positions du «scepticisme chrétien»".

Emmanuel Naya: "Le «coup de Talon» sur l’impiété: scepticisme et vérité chrétienne au XVIème Siècle".

André Pessel: "L’Essay sceptique de Jean-Pierre Camus".

Lorenzo Bianchi: "«Mens regnum bona possidet»: scepticisme, fidéisme et naturalisme dans le Dialogue sur le sujet de la divinité de La Mothe Le Vayer".

José R. Maia Neto: "Huet n’est pas un sceptique chrétien".

Forthcoming book on Skepticism in the Renaissance

Next August, Springer will publish Renaissance Scepticisms, edited by José Maia Neto and Gianni Paganini. To read a description of the book and to see the table of contents, go here.

Naess' "Scepticism"

At the end of 2005, Springer published The Selected Works of Arne Naess, in ten volumes. The second volume reprints Naess' famous book Scepticism, originally published in 1968 by Routledge & Kegan Paul. Unfortunately, it is not possible to buy individual volumes separately; one must buy the whole set, whose price is about 1,900 bucks. Naess seems to have been among the first contemporary thinkers/scholars to take Pyrrhonism seriously.

A final note: there's a very critical review by Barry Stroud which appeared in The Philosophical Review in 1971 (it is a review of the 1969 edition; the link is here). I wonder whether Stroud still thinks the same way about Pyrrhonism.

Conference on Inferential Internalism 2

Just a reminder: tomorrow begins the conference on inferential internalism organized by Andri Toendury at the University of Fribourg. The program, which you can find here, is complete now (there's been a change: Crispin Wright is not going to deliver a paper).

Moral Skepticism

The latest issue of The Philosophical Quarterly features Walter Sinnott-Armstrong's précis of his book Moral Skepticisms (to which I have referred here), discussions by Gerry Hough, Peter Baumann, and Martijn Blaauw, as well as Sinnott-Armstrong's reply. You'll also find paper on contextualism by John Greco.

Cicero's Academica

I've realized that last year I forgot to refer to Charles Brittain's Cicero: On Academic Scepticism (Hackett, 2006). As far as I can tell, the translation is very good and the introduction is excellent. (I wrote a review of it for BMCR.) Regarding the Academica, I should also mention (i) that Tobias Reinhardt is working on a critical edition and a philosophical and philological commentary (see here) to be published by Oxford University Press, and (ii) that Carlos Lévy is working on a project that will include a new edition of the text (by two scholars whose names I don't remember now) and a translation (by him) to be published (I think) by the Collection des Universitaires de France.

Aenesidemus' Heracliteanism

The latest issue of Rhizai features Mauro Bonazzi's critical review of both Roberto Polito's The Sceptical Road and Brigitte Pérez-Jean's Dogmatisme et scepticisme.

Paper on Arcesilaus

The first issue of volume 57 of Revue de métaphysique et de morale, which is devoted to Cicero, features a paper by Anna-Maria Ioppolo entitled "Arcésilas dans le Lucullus de Cicéron". For information about that issue, go here.

Janáček's Papers on Pyrrhonism

I've got excellent news for the students of ancient Pyrrhonism, since Walter de Gruyter has published this book: Karel Janáček, Studien zu Sextus Empiricus, Diogenes Laertius und zur pyrrhonischen Skepsis, edited by Jan Janda and Filip Karfík. The volume brings together fifty papers by Janáček, who was a key interpreter of Pyrrhonism, particularly from a philological point of view. (It's a real pity that my knowledge of German is so weak.) For information about the book, just click here.

Ioli's Paper

I recommend that those who will read Roberto Polito's paper referred to here first take a look at Roberta Ioli's "Agoge and Related Concepts in Sextus Empiricus", Siculorum Gymnasium 56 (2003): 401–28.

Conference on Inferential Internalism

On June 17-18, there will be a very interesting conference on inferential internalism at the University of Fribourg. It is organized by Andri Toendury and the speakers include Pascal Engel, Adam Leite, Jim Pryor, Josh Schechter, Toendury, and Crispin Wright. For information, go here.

Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (Again)

You'll be glad to know that, on OUP's webpage, there's complete information about the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Skepticism edited by John Greco. There will be 26 essays, all by leading specialists. In principle, it will be released in August. Click here to go to the page.

Barnes and Frede Bibliographies

For those interested, on Andreas Schmidhauser's webpage there are Jonathan Barnes and Michael Frede bibliographies, which of course include several papers and books on ancient skepticism. Just click here.

Italian Conference

On June 12-14, there will be a conference at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", whose subject is "L'etica, la virtù et l'io" (ethics, virtue and the self). I think that the program isn't online yet, so if any of you want it, I can send it to you. Now, what I wanted to say is that the last talk will be Emidio Spinelli's "La distruzione dei valori. Il pirronismo antico e l’etica come problema". Emidio is an expert in Pyrrhonism and Sextus Empiricus' discussion of ethics, so if you're in Italy in June, you should go listen to him.