The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities

Author:   Rodrigo Pinto de Brito
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Author:   Rodrigo Pinto de Brito
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Volume:   455
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Pages:   157
Publication Date:   09 March 2022
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Part 1. On the Apraxia Argument 1. Introduction 1.1 Skepticism as a nihilistic thought in Modern times 1.2 Hume and apraxia revisited 2. Apraxia and the Development of Ancient Skepticisms 2.1 Preliminary considerations 2.2 Proto-skepticisms 2.3 The Life of Pyrrho 2.4 Pyrrho’s messamates 2.5 From Timon to Arcesilaus? 3. Academics X Stoics 3.1 Arcesilaus attacks 3.2 Carneades 3.3 Clitomachus 4. Sextus Empiricus 4.1The legacy of Skepticisms up to Sextus 4.2 The Rustic and the Urban interpretations 4.3 The Urbans and their beliefs 4.4 The Rustics and their beliefs 4.5 Urbans and Rustics in diaphonia 4.6 Paving the Suburban terrain 4.7 Testing H1 4.8 Summarizing 4.9 Testing H2 4.10 A Twillight Zone 4.11 The second formulation of speech acts and Skepticism 4.12 A provisional conclusion Part 2. The Skeptic and the Crafts 5. Sextus Empiricus and the Elements 5.1 An interlude on Skepticism and Medicine 5.2 The refutation to the elements in general 5.3 The refutation of the grammatical notion of letters as specific elements of words 5.4 Back to the feasibility 6. Sextus Against the Rhetoricians 6.1 General scheme of the argument of Adv. Rhet. 6.2 Adv. Rhet. walkthrough (the search for the definition of Rhetoric) 6.3 The refutations to the available definitions (rhetoric definition as techne) 6.4 The refutations to the definitions of Rhetoric as science of discourse and producer of persuasion 6.5 Adv. Rhet. 73-113 7. Sextus and a Positive Conception of Techne 7.1 Galen again 8. Final Remarks: On the Receiption of Skeptical Arguments and Their Transmission References Appendix I.  General introduction to the Stoic philosophy Appendix II. Conceptual tables of the Skepticism before Sextus Empiricus Appendix III. Chronological table of the philosophers and schools mentioned Appendix IV. The three medical sects and their main heads, according to pseudo-Galen, Introd.14.683.5-14.684.5

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Dr. Rodrigo Pinto de Brito is Post-Doctorate researcher (University of Kent-UK, 2015); PhD in Ancient Philosophy (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/PUC-Rio, 2011-2013). Assistant Professor (Federal University of Sergipe/UFS, 2013-present).  His main research interests are History of Hellenistic and Late-ancient Philosophy, specially Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Stoicism. 1. Publications: 1.1. Books and chapters: BRITO, R. (et al.). Introdução à lógica proposicional estoica. São Cristóvão: Editora UFS, 2016. BRITO, R. (et al.) SEXTUS EMPIRICUS. Contra os gramáticos. São Paulo: EdUNESP, 2015. BRITO, R. (et al.) Contra os retóricos. São Paulo: EdUNESP, 2013. 2.2. Papers: BRITO, R. Porque o estudo de Galeno pode contribuir para a compreensão de Sexto Empírico? (tradução de Galeno, Das seitas médicas para os iniciantes, 1.64.1- 1.69.5, bilíngue, com introdução). In: Prometeus. Filosofia em Revista, v. 09, p. 187-2016, 2016. BRITO, R. P. Algumas outras palavras sobre ceticismo e cristianismo. In: Revista ARCHAI. As origens do pensamento ocidental, v. 14, p. 26-37, 2015. BRITO, R. P. A sucessão de Pirro e a transmissão de seu arcabouço conceitual. In: Anais de Filosofia Clássica, v. 7, p. 58-73, 2015. BRITO, R. P. A física da Stoá. In: Anais de Filosofia Clássica, v. 7, p. 55-73, 2015. BRITO, R. P. Notas sobre a 'Vida de Pirro'. In: Prometeus. Filosofia em Revista, v. 7, p. 83-100, 2014. BRITO, R. P.. Uma 'via média' interpretativa para o ceticismo sextiano e sua aplicação na análise de 'Contra os Retóricos'. In: Sképsis, v. 1, p. 33-69, 2014.

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