Issue 6.2-3 of IJSS

Issue 6.2-3 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has just been published. It is a special issue devoted to Hinge Epistemology. Check it out here.

Sextus on Demonstration

The lastest issue of the Italian journal Elenchos (36/2, 2015) contains Emidio Spinelli's "Non si dimostra il vero: la critica di Sesto Empirico ai procedimenti apodittici." You can find it here.

Hume's Skepticism and his Social & Political Philosophy

Last year, Edinburgh University Press published Ryu Susato's Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment. A review by Angela Coventry and Alex Sager has just appeared in NDPR.

Early-View Pieces in IJSS

A few more pieces (four articles and one book review) have now been published online as early-view in the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. You can find them here.

On Evolutionary Debunking Arguments

The latest issue of Ratio contains Daniel Crow's “A Plantingian Pickle for a Darwinian Dilemma: Evolutionary Arguments Against Atheism and Normative Realism.” You can access it here.

Blomqvist on Beckwith on Pyrrhonism and Buddhism

A few weeks ago, BMCR published a review, by Jerker Blomqvist, of Christopher Beckwith's Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (Princeton University Press, 2015). It can be found here.

Special Issue on Skepticism

A special issue on skepticism, edited by Jan Willem Wieland, has just been published in the Dutch journal Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte (108/1, 2016). You can find the papers (all in Dutch) here. The translation of the title of my own paper, originally written in English, is “The Practical and Epistemic Value of Pyrrhonism.”

Issue 6.1 of IJSS

Issue 6.1 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. You can find it here.

Hume's Skepticism

The latest issue of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (92/2, 2016) includes Yuval Avnur's “Excuses for Hume's Skepticism”. You can find it here.

New Website on Ancient Skepticism

There is a new website on ancient skepticism hosted by the Universidad de Córdoba (Spain). You can check it out here.

Entry on Sextus

Volume 6 of DPhA has finally been published, after quite a few years in the making. It includes the following entry on Sextus:

Emidio Spinelli, s.v. Sextus Empiricus, in R. Goulet (ed.), Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, vol. VI: de Sabinillus à Tyrsénos, pp. 265-300. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2016.

2017 SSS Meeting

James Beebe (Buffalo) is organizing a group session (or two) for the Society for Skeptical Studies at next year's Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Jan 4-7, 2017, in Baltimore, MD). If you have a paper that deals with philosophical skepticism that you would like to have considered for inclusion in the SSS session(s), please send your submission to Beebe at jbeebe2@buffalo.edu by May 1, 2016.

Skepticism in Latin America

The entry “Skepticism in Latin America,” by Plínio Junqueira Smith and Otávio Bueno, has just been published in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Go here.

Neo-Pyrrhonism and the Epistemology of Disagreement

Since I don't know when the paper will be included in an issue of Synthese, I prefer to let you know now that my paper “A Neo-Pyrrhonian Response to the Disagreeing about Disagreement Argument” has just been published online. It can be found here. This is another recent paper in which I try to discuss skepticism from a point of view that is systematic rather than historico-exegetical.