... and not a refutation of it or therapy for it. Drawing on the probabilistic and doxastic theories of Philonian Academic scepticism, especially in Clitomachus of Carthage, the book shows how Hume developed an utterly non-dogmatic theory of belief. The text delineates the sceptical core of Humes’ political thought...

... that of the non-epistemic, non-realist Academic scepticism articulated by Clitomachus of Carthage as he reinterpreted Carneades. The chapter argues furthermore that Hume’s theory of probability is pointedly non-epistemic and non-metaphysical. Comparing Hume’s non-dogmatic probabilism to Locke’s Metrodorian...

... by Clitomachus of Carthage in contrast to the dogmatic doxastic and probabilistic theory of Metrodorus of Stratonikiae, which anticipates Locke. Academy Clitomachus of Carthage dialectic Metrodorus of Stratonikeia Plato Platonic philosophy or Platonism scepticism tradition appearance common life...