Medieval Skepticism as a Historiographical Category

Autor/innen

  • Guido J. R. Alt University of Cologne

Schlagworte:

Skepticism, Medieval Epistemology, J. Duns Scotus, Henry of Ghent

Abstract

The essay explores the plausibility of the historiographical category of medieval skepticism by inspecting two cases of putative skeptical arguments in the later middle ages, namely those of the Henry of Ghent and J. Duns Scotus. A methodological distinction between the history of philosophy and doxology is attempted before a cursory analysis of the epistemological controversy between both authors and its relationship with the skeptical principle of indistinguishability.

Autor/innen-Biografie

Guido J. R. Alt, University of Cologne

Guido J. R. Alt is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cologne.

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2018-09-20