TY - BOOK AU - Bett,Richard Arnot Home TI - The Cambridge companion to ancient scepticism T2 - Cambridge companions to philosophy SN - 9780521874762 (hbk.) U1 - 186 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Skeptics (Greek philosophy) KW - Skepticism KW - Rome N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Antecedents in early Greek philosophy / Mi-Kyoung Lee -- Pyrrho and early Pyrrhonism / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson -- Arcesilaus and Carneades / Harald Thorsrud -- The sceptical Academy: decline and afterlife / Carlos Lévy -- Aenesidemus and the rebirth of Pyrrhonism / R.J. Hankinson -- Sextus Empiricus / Pierre Pellegrin -- Scepticism and belief / Casey Perin -- Scepticism and action / Katja Maria Vogt -- Scepticism and ethics / Richard Bett -- Academics versus Pyrrhonists, reconsidered / Gisela Striker -- The Pyrrhonian Modes / Paul Woodruff -- Pyrrhonism and medicine / James Allen -- Pyrrhonism and the specialized sciences / Emidio Spinelli -- The rediscovery and posthumous influence of scepticism / Luciano Floridi -- Descartes' transformation of the sceptical tradition / Michael Williams ER -