A'self-refutation argument'is any argument which aims at showing that (and how) a certain
thesis is self-refuting. This is the first book-length treatment of ancient self-refutation and …

Apuleius of Madauros, writing in the latter half of the second century CE in Roman North
Africa, is best known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses aka The Golden …

Pyrrhonism was one of the two main ancient skeptical traditions. In this second paper of the
three‐part series devoted to ancient skepticism, I present and discuss some of the issues on …

This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and
provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation. Through close …

1. An error that is to be avoided when we talk about the rebirth of Platonism in the early
Imperial age is thinking that it was a unified and systematic process, as if all the …

Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their
shared use of aporia-translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons-as a core tool in …

Wie sind die antiken Atomisten zur Annahme der Atome gekommen, und wie haben sie
deren Unteilbarkeit aufgefasst? Dies sind die schwierigsten Fragen in der Forschung zum …

The essays collected in this volume focus on the role played by the philosophy of the
Hellenistic, or post-Aristotelian age (from the school of the successors of Aristotle …

How does a school of thought, in the area of philosophy, or indeed of religion, from roots that
may be initially open-ended and largely informal, come to take on the features that later …

Lo studio affronta il problema se Sesto Empirico sia una fonte attendibile per la ricostruzione
della filosofia di Arcesilao e di Carneade, o se il suo resoconto sull'Accademia scettica non …