Scepticism from Antiquity to Modern Times

Date
8–11 May 2017

Abstract
The First International Conference on Scepticism at the University of Hamburg, organised by the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in close co-operation with the Department of Philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome, addresses the main elements, strategies, and definitions of scepticism with a focus on ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy. A group of established professors and young scholars working on PhDs and post-docs will lecture on the main questions of sceptical philosophy, such as the criteria for defining and distinguishing ancient scepticism from modern scepticism and the debates on the existence and meaning of a Jewish (anti-) scepticism.

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Publication
Haliva, Racheli, Stephan Schmid, Emidio Spinelli, and Giuseppe Veltri, eds. Sceptical Paths. Enquiry and Doubt from Antiquity to the Present. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110591040 (open access)