The sceptics / R.J. Hankinson.

Originally published: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-363) and index.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION: SOURCES AND TRANSMISSION; THE NATURE OF SCEPTICISM; PRECURSORS; PYRRHO AND THE SOCRATIC TRADITION; THE SCEPTICISM OF THE MIDDLE ACADEMY; CARNEADES AND THE LATER SCEPTICAL ACADEMY; SECESSION: THE 'FOURTH ACADEMY' AND AENESIDEMUS; THE SCEPTICISM OF THE EARLY EMPIRE; THE TEN MODES OF SCEPTICISM; THE MODES OF AGRIPPA; THE CRITERION, SIGNS, AND PROOF; CAUSES AND EXPLANATION; SCEPTICISM IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS; SCEPTICAL PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS; THE LIBERAL ARTS; SCEPTICAL ETHICS; THE SCEPTICAL ATTITUDE; THE SCEPTIC WAY OF LIFE.

The first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek sceptism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus.