Skepticism in Philosophy

Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.

Henrik Lagerlund is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Stockholm University, Sweden. He works primarily on medieval and Renaissance philosophy, and has written several articles and books. He is also the editor of The Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (2017) and The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Second Edition (2020).

Introduction 1. Pyrrhonism and Sextus Empiricus 2. Academic Skepticism 3. Augustine and Early Medieval Skepticism 4. Al-Ghazali and Skepticism in Medieval Arabic and Greek Philosophy 5. God as a Deceiver: External World Skepticism in Later Medieval Times 6. Skepticism in the Sixteenth Century: Montaigne, Charron, and Sanches 7. Descartes's Methodological Skepticism, Bayle's Super-Skepticism, and Berkeley's Anti-Skepticism 8. Hume's Skepticism and Hume on Skepticism 9. The Anti-Skepticism of Thomas Reid, Lady Mary Shepherd, and Immanuel Kant as well as Skepticism in German Idealism 10. G.E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein on Skepticism 11. Skepticism in Contemporary Philosophy 12. Non-Philosophical Skepticism