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4.1 The Career of Pyrrhonism 4.1 The Career of Pyrrhonism
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4.1.1 The Surviving Texts 4.1.1 The Surviving Texts
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4.1.2 Medieval Quasi-Sceptics 4.1.2 Medieval Quasi-Sceptics
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4.1.3 Humanism and Fideism in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 4.1.3 Humanism and Fideism in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
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4.1.4 Montaigne: The Pyrrhonian Womb of Modern Thought 4.1.4 Montaigne: The Pyrrhonian Womb of Modern Thought
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4.1.4.1 Montaigne: fideism and finitude. 4.1.4.1 Montaigne: fideism and finitude.
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4.1.4.2 Montaigne: epochê and tropoi. 4.1.4.2 Montaigne: epochê and tropoi.
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4.1.4.3 Montaigne: rhetoric and form. 4.1.4.3 Montaigne: rhetoric and form.
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4.1.4.4 Montaigne: the ordinary and the human. 4.1.4.4 Montaigne: the ordinary and the human.
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4.1.4.5 In the wake of Montaigne. 4.1.4.5 In the wake of Montaigne.
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4.1.5 Scepticism and the New Sciences 4.1.5 Scepticism and the New Sciences
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4.1.5.1 Hume and Hobbes. 4.1.5.1 Hume and Hobbes.
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4.1.5.2 La Mothe Le Vayer: extending scepticism. 4.1.5.2 La Mothe Le Vayer: extending scepticism.
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4.1.5.3 Gassendi: the bridge. 4.1.5.3 Gassendi: the bridge.
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4.1.5.4 Bayle and Crousaz: post-Cartesian Pyrrhonism. 4.1.5.4 Bayle and Crousaz: post-Cartesian Pyrrhonism.
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4.1.5.5 Huet: Socratic coherence. 4.1.5.5 Huet: Socratic coherence.
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4.1.5.6 Sceptical minor notes: Glanvill, Newton, Dryden, Shaftesbury, Bosc. 4.1.5.6 Sceptical minor notes: Glanvill, Newton, Dryden, Shaftesbury, Bosc.
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4.2 Pyrrhonism in Hume 4.2 Pyrrhonism in Hume
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4.2.1 First Plank: Hume’s Access and Exposure to the Outlines 4.2.1 First Plank: Hume’s Access and Exposure to the Outlines
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4.2.1.1 Five misleading citations. 4.2.1.1 Five misleading citations.
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4.2.1.2 Vernacular translations and other sceptical texts. 4.2.1.2 Vernacular translations and other sceptical texts.
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4.2.2 Second Plank: Radicalism, Religion and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion 4.2.2 Second Plank: Radicalism, Religion and a Hermeneutic of Suspicion
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4.2.3 Pyrrhonism as a Path to Academic Scepticism and as Prophylaxis 4.2.3 Pyrrhonism as a Path to Academic Scepticism and as Prophylaxis
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4.2.4 Third Plank: Hume’s Pyrrhonism and a Complete Sceptical Framework 4.2.4 Third Plank: Hume’s Pyrrhonism and a Complete Sceptical Framework
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A Combined General Model of Scepticism A Combined General Model of Scepticism
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4.3 Conclusion 4.3 Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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4 Hume and the Legacy of Pyrrhonian Scepticism
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Published:December 2019
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Abstract
The last chapter of Part One’s historical quartet traces the development of Pyrrhonism across medieval, Renaissance, and early modern philosophy. Extending the work of Charles B. Schmitt, Richard H. Popkin, Luciano Floridi, et al., the chapter assesses the sceptical thought of Montaigne and devotes subsequent sections to the Pyrrhonian dimensions of work by François de La Mothe le Vayer, Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Bayle, and Pierre-Daniel Huet. Because Hume is typically understood to be anti-Pyrrhonian, Chapter Four develops a three-plank justification for attributing deeply Pyrrhonian dimensions to his work. Plank one is bibliographic and argues that Hume enjoyed access to Pyrrhonian texts and likely used them. Plank two argues for a hermeneutic of suspicion when reading Hume, largely grounded in the hostility he and others faced on account of their supposed scepticism. Plank three is conceptual and argues that Hume’s work exhibits philosophical qualities remarkably similar to those of historical Pyrrhonism. Synthesizing the results of Part One of Hume’s Scepticism, Chapter Four closes with a twelve-point General Framework defining scepticism generally.
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