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Description of  Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy (The New Synthese Historical Library: Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy, Vol. 70)

This is the first collection of original essays entirely devoted to a detailed study of the Pyrrhonian tradition. The twelve contributions collected in the present volume combine to offer a historical and systematic analysis of the form of skepticism known as Pyrrhonism. They discuss whether the Pyrrhonist is an ethically engaged agent, whether he can claim to search for truth, and other thorny questions concerning ancient Pyrrhonism explore its influence on certain modern thinkers such as Pierre Bayle and David Hume and examine Pyrrhonian skepticism in relation to contemporary analytic philosophy.