Author: Verde, Francesco (Ed.)
Title: Cicero’s Academici Libri
Place edition: Berlin & Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2025
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: [Abstract] This chapter examines the reception of the thought of the so-called skeptical Academy, as expounded in Cicero’s Academics, within contemporary philosophy. This task is more complex than evaluating the reception of Pyrrhonian skepticism. While Pyrrhonism, as presented in the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, has been the subject of considerable discussion among contemporary philosophers, Academic skepticism is rarely mentioned. Moreover, when it is mentioned, the ancient source cited is more often Sextus than Cicero. Finally, rather than observing a direct influence of the skeptical Academy on certain present-day philosophers, we sometimes find similarities between the Academics’ stance and certain views adopted in contemporary analytic epistemology.
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Link: https://philpapers.org/rec/VERCAL-4?ref=mail
Author initials: Verde 2025
Title: Cicero’s Academici Libri
Place edition: Berlin & Boston
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2025
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: [Abstract] This chapter examines the reception of the thought of the so-called skeptical Academy, as expounded in Cicero’s Academics, within contemporary philosophy. This task is more complex than evaluating the reception of Pyrrhonian skepticism. While Pyrrhonism, as presented in the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, has been the subject of considerable discussion among contemporary philosophers, Academic skepticism is rarely mentioned. Moreover, when it is mentioned, the ancient source cited is more often Sextus than Cicero. Finally, rather than observing a direct influence of the skeptical Academy on certain present-day philosophers, we sometimes find similarities between the Academics’ stance and certain views adopted in contemporary analytic epistemology.
Works:
Link: https://philpapers.org/rec/VERCAL-4?ref=mail
Author initials: Verde 2025
