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Our authors

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Plato Sextus Empiricus Montaigne Pascal Hume C.S. Peirce W.K. Clifford

James Nietzsche F.C.S. Schiller G.E. Moore J.B. Cabell Wittgenstein E.M. Cioran

Texts

• David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Excerpts most relevant to skepticism. Whole book.
• David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature. Prepared by Jim Feiser (but not finished).
• William James, "The Will To Believe". Prepared by Jim Fieser.
• Blaise Pascal, Pensées. W.F. Trotter translation.
• Plato, Apology. From the Perseus Project. Here's another version of the same edition, easier to use, from Clarke College.
• Rhetoric and Skepticism. From Kelly Thomas. Contains an electronic version of the Bury translation of Sextus Empiricus, but this will soon be removed.
• Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Fragments of the Bury translation.

Skeptical links

There is virtually no scholarship of significance on the web about skepticism in the original sense, the teachings of Pyrrho and those inspired by him. However there are articles on ancient and modern skepticism, and on major skeptics, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Here are a few other articles:

• Beyond Descartes Evil Genius: Problems of Knowledge and Scepticism. An essay by Clark Wolf.
• Classical Skepticism. My own attempt to restate the Pyrrhonean position.
• Courting the Pyrrhonian Skeptic. An essay by Sue Easun. Pyrrho as an inspiration for librarians.
• Is Incredulity Self-Defeating? An essay by Henry Flynt.
• The Nature of Doubt. An anonymous essay.
• Pascal on Self-Caused Belief. An essay on the wager argument by Steven Davis.
• Precis on Sextus Empiricus. By Brian Boeninger.
• Sextus Empiricus. An essay by Luciano Floridi. An excellent reference work. On the biography of Sextus, a bibliography of works by and about him, and the translation and transmission of his work.
• Skepticism and the Eurocentric Tradition: a Polemical Essay. By Edward Jayne

By contrast, there is a great deal on the web devoted to "skepticism" as the critique of pseudo-science and paranormal claims. For example:

• Pseudoscience, Paranormal Phenomena, Skepticism. From Edward Lipson.
• Sources of Skeptical Information on the Internet. From Jim Lippard. Very large and well-done.
• The Skeptic's Refuge. From Bob Carroll. Also large and well-organized.
• Skeptic Magazine. Only tables of contents online.
• Skeptic Magazine. (Not the same as the previous entry of the same title.) Tables of contents and selected articles online.
• The Skeptical Inquirer. From the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Tables of contents and selected articles from back issues online.
• A Skeptical Manifesto. An essay by Michael Shermer.
• The Skeptical Review. Full content online.
• SKEPTIC Annotated Bibliography. On paranormal research and its critics. Thorough, well-organized, and well-annotated.
• The Skeptic's Dictionary. From Robert T. Carroll.

For other philosophy links, see my Guide to Philosophy on the Internet.

See my policy on dead links.

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Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374, U.S.A.
peters@earlham.edu. Copyright © 1997, Peter Suber.