French Translation of Sextus

Stéphane Marchand has called my attention to a new French translation of Sextus Empiricus, in this case of the two books of Against the Logicians. I think it's the first translation of these books in French, or at least the first complete translation.

Sextus Empiricus, Contre les logiciens. Introduction, notes, and translation by René Lefebvre. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019.

I haven't had the chance to take a look at the book and I don't know the translator, who as far as I know hasn't published anything on Sextus or ancient Pyrrhonism more generally. For more info, click here.

Workshop on Philo of Alexandria

On October 27–28, 2019, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will host a workshop on Philo of Alexandria, focusing on the skeptical elements that can be found in his work. For more information, go here.

Conference on Simone Luzzatto

On September 23–25, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies will host a conference on the skeptical thought of Rabbi Simone Luzzatto (ca. 1583–1663) and its value within seventeenth-century philosophy and political thought. For more information, click here.

Skeptical Paths

A new volume has been published in De Gruyter's series Studies and Texts in Scepticism:

G. Veltri, R. Haliva, S. Schmid & E. Spinelli (eds.), Sceptical Paths: Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

The volume is open access and can be found here.

Simone Luzzatto

New bi-lingual editions of two works by the seventeenth-century Venetian rabbi, Simone Luzzatto, have just been published by De Gruyter as part of the series Studies and Texts in Scepticism. These works offer a blend of Judaism, skepticism, and political thought. Both books are open access.

Discourse on the State of the Jews. Ed. and trans. by Giuseppe Veltri and Anna Lissa. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

Socrates, or on Human Knowledge. Ed. and trans. by Giuseppe Veltri and Michela Torbidoni. Berlin, & Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

Issue 9.3 of IJSS

Issue 9.3 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has just been published. It is a special issue, “Epistemic Vice and Forms of Scepticism,” with contributions by Yuval Avnur, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Adam Carter, Pierre Le Morvan, and Aidan McGlynn. It can be accessed here.

Ancient Skepticism and Modern Fiction

The latest issue of the Italian journal Elenchos includes a paper on ancient skepticism: 

John Christian Laursen, “Ancient Skepticism and Modern Fiction: Some Political Implications,” Elenchos 40 (2019): 199-215. 

It can be found here.

Sextus and the Modes

Thanks to a review by Stéphane Marchand that is forthcoming at BMCR, I've discovered this new contribution to the scholarship on Sextus in Italian:

Massimo Catapano, Sesto Empirico e i tropi della sospensione del giudizio. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2018.

For more information, go here.

New Volume on Ancient Skepticism

I'm glad to announce the publication of a book I've co-edited with Stéphane Marchand (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):

Les raisons du doute: études sur le scepticisme antique (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019).

It contains original papers by Thomas Bénatouïl, Richard Bett, Christophe Grellard, Diego Machuca, Stéphane Marchand, Lorenzo Perilli, Casey Perin, Svavar Svavarsson, and Voula Tsouna. More information can be found here.

Lecture at MCAS

On July 9, 2019, at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (Hamburg), Nadja El Kassar (ETH Zürich) will give the lecture “How to Deal with Ignorance? Some Historical Suggestions.” For more information, click here.

Issue 9.2 of IJSS

Issue 9.2 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has just been published. It contains articles by Jan Forsman, Drew Johnson, and Mark Walker, as well as a book review by Neil Sinclair. It can be accessed here.

Postdoc Position in Hamburg

There's a call for applications for a postdoctoral position at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies - Jewish Scepticism (Hamburg University). For complete information, go here.

Rationality of Religious Belief

The latest issue of Faith and Philosophy (36, 2019) includes two papers that deal with the rationality of religious belief: Jeroen de Ridder, “Against Quasi-Fideism”; and Jonathan Curtis Rutledge, “Perspectival Skeptical Theism”. Both are open access.

Austin and Skepticism

Last year, I missed the publication of Mark Kaplan's Austin's Way with Skepticism: An Essay on Philosophical Method (OUP, 2018). Complete information can be found here. A much shorter version of Kaplan's interpretation of Austin’s way with skepticism can be found in his chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (OUP, 2008).