This book offers an unprecedented study of the influence of the skepticism of the New Platonic Academy on David Hume’s and Immanuel Kant’s critiques of metaphysics. By demonstrating how the skeptical teachings of the Academy affected these authors’ Enlightened attacks on traditional metaphysics, this book deepens and broadens the burgeoning scholarship on the role that the Ancients schools of skepticism played in the configuration of Modern skeptical outlooks. It bolsters the ne...
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Introduction.- 2. The Skepticism of the New Academy: From Epoche to Persuasion.- 3. Academic Skepticism and Metaphysics: On the Gods and the Im...
Circa l’autore
Catalina González Quintero earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in the United States of America and is currently an Associate Professor of Philos...