Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

edited by Katja Maria Vogt and with Richard Bett, Lorenzo Corti, Christiana M.M. Olfert, Elisabeth Scharffenberger, David Sedley, James Warren and Dorandi Tiziano

Book cover: Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Extent: 202 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2015)

ISBN: 9783161533365

6.57 x 9.13 inches

Price: $87.00

In stock

~ENG~This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius’s report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogenes’s report as well as core questions in recent research on skepticism.


Pyrrhonian skepticism has gradually gained a stellar reputation. Rather than being dismissed as extremist and evidently implausible, as it often was in the past, it is now recognized as a philosophically sophisticated outlook, sympathetic to today’s commitment to science as a long-term enterprise. Ancient skepticism is now seen as an important position in the history of philosophy and as addressing core questions in epistemology. It is worthwhile to be studied by anyone interested in the nature of investigation, knowledge, belief, language and action. Leading experts contribute to this volume, which offers a philosophical introduction, translation and commentary as well as scholarly essays on one of the most important texts about Pyrrhonian skepticism, Diogenes Laertius’ report about Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

  • With Richard Bett
  • With Lorenzo Corti
  • With Christiana MM Olfert
  • With Elisabeth Scharffenberger
  • With David Sedley
  • With Dorandi Tiziano
  • With James Warren
  • Edited by Katja Maria Vogt