Special Issue of Synthese

The November issue of Synthese is devoted to skepticism and justification. The issue can be accessed for free here.

Disjunctivism

Those working particularly on external world skepticism will be interested in these two very recent books:

D. Pritchard, Epistemological Disjunctivism (OUP, 2012). More information can be found here.

M. Willaschek (ed.), Disjunctivism: Disjunctive Accounts in Epistemology and in the Philosophy of Perception (Routledge, 2012). More information can be found here.

Conference on Skepticism and Epicureanism

On November 13-14, the ENS of Lyon will hold the conference "Épicurisme et Scepticisme", organized by Stéphane Marchand and Pierre-Marie Morel. For complete information, you can either click on the image below or go here.

New Translation of Sextus's Against the Physicists

Last month, CUP published Richard Bett's translation of Sextus Empiricus's Against the Physicists. More information can be found here. I haven't taken a look at the translation yet, but I'll try to get a copy soon. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first English translation of the two books of Against the Physicists since Bury's (1936).

Conference on Skepticism and Politics

On October 16-17, the Université Pierre-Mendès-France will hold the conference "Scepticismes en politique". Click on the images below for complete information.

Plato and Irrationality

Yesterday I came back from Colombia, where I gave two talks on ancient skepticism. There I met the members of the research group Peiras, some of whom are now working in this area. I also got a copy of  this interesting new book: Platón y la irracionalidad, edited by Andrea Lozano. More information can be found here.

New Paper on Disagreement

The latest issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research contains Nathan King's "Disagreement: What's the Problem? or A Good Peer is Hard to Find." It can be found here. I read this paper a while ago and I highly recommend it.

New Reviews

Two new reviews of books dealing with ancient Pyrrhonism are available online:

L. Castagnoli, Ancient Self-Refutation (CUP, 2010), reviewed by Stéphane Marchand in Aitia 2 (2012).

D. Machuca (ed.), New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism (Brill, 2011), reviewed by Clifford Roberts in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.09.36.

Job Market

For the past year, I’ve been thinking more seriously about the possibility of moving to the US (or perhaps Europe), even though I have tenure here. Some friends and colleagues have confirmed something I’d already heard about: the job market in the US has been terrible for the past couple of years. If anyone has any insights about this topic, feel free to post a comment or (better) send me an email.

(Thanks to everyone for the emails.)

Victorinus' and Augustin's Interpretations of Skepticism

A recent issue of Les Études Philosophiques (101/2, 2012) features the article "Deux interprétations du scepticisme: Marius Victorinus et Augustine" by Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic. More info can be found here.

Five Years

On August 24th, Aporia turned five years old. It's been a long road and we'll see if we're still around five years from now.

Review of Scepticisme et Langage

Richard Bett's review of Lorenzo Corti's Scepticisme et langage (Vrin, 2009) has just been published in Ancient Philosophy 32 (2012): 217-23. This journal can be accessed through Philosophy Documentation Center.

Free Will Skepticism

The latest issue of The Philosophical Quarterly contains Benjamin Vilhauer's "Taking Free Will Skepticism Seriously". The paper can be accessed here.

Hegel and Pyrrhonian Skepticism

A book on Hegel and Pyrrhonism I heard about some time ago has just come out:

Ioannis Trisokkas, Pyrrhonian Scepticism and Hegel’s Theory of Judgement (Brill, 2012).

Complete information can be found here.