دانلود کتاب The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities (Synthese Library, 455)

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
Part I: On the Apraxia Argument
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Skepticism as a Nihilistic Thought in Modern Times
1.2 Hume and Apraxia Revisited
Chapter 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?
Chapter 3: Academics X Stoics
3.1 Arcesilaus Attacks
3.2 Carneades
3.3 Clitomachus
Chapter 4: Sextus Empiricus
4.1 The 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 II: The Skeptic and the Crafts
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 7: Sextus and a Positive Conception of Techne
7.1 Galen Again
Chapter 8: Final Remarks: On the Reception of Skeptical Arguments and Their Transmission
Appendices
Appendix 1: General Introduction to the Stoic Philosophy
1 Early and Middle Stoa
2 Stoicism as a System
3 Stoic Physics
4 Stoic Ethics
5 Stoic Theory of Knowledge
6 Conceptual Table of the Stoic Philosophy
Appendix 2: Conceptual Tables of the Skepticism Before Sextus Empiricus
Appendix 3: Chronological Table of the Philosophers and Schools Mentioned
Appendix 4: The Three Medical Sects and Their Main Heads, According to Pseudo-Galen, Introd.14.683.5-14.684.5
References
1. Primary Sources (Texts and Translations)
2. Papers and Books
3. Dictionaries, Lexica and Grammars