Sceptical Paths: Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present

Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva, Stephan Schmid, Emidio Spinelli (eds.)

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Studies on skeptical arguments from antiquity to today, including Jewish, Islamic and early modern thinkers often left out of the story. A wide view of how doubt has shaped philosophy.

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