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Little is known about Sextus Empiricus. He likely lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. [1] His Roman name, Sextus, implies he was a Roman citizen. [2] The Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, states that he was the same person as Sextus of Chaeronea, [3] as do other pre-modern sources, but this identification is commonly doubted. [4]
Robert Gregg Bury (/ ˈ b j ʊər i /; 22 March 1869 – 11 February 1951) was an Irish Anglican clergyman, classicist, philologist, and a translator of the works of Plato and Sextus Empiricus into English.
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America is a 2006 book by conservative American author and policy advocate David Horowitz.Contending that many academics in American colleges hold anti-American perspectives, Horowitz lists one hundred examples who he believes are sympathetic to terrorists and non-democratic governments.
Against the Ethicists, Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-823620-7 Against the Logicians , Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-53195-5 "Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists" , Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 052151391X , 9780521513913
JP Eggers, the interim dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business, was one of 20 faculty who signed the anti-Donald Trump letter ahead of the 2020 US election
Pyrrhonism is best known today through the surviving works of Sextus Empiricus, writing in the late second century or early third century CE. [2] The publication of Sextus' works in the Renaissance ignited a revival of interest in Skepticism and played a major role in Reformation thought and the development of early modern philosophy.
Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 – April 14, 2005) was an American academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes [ 2 ] introduced one previously unrecognized influence on Western thought in the ...
Economics professor John Strauss said the case against him was closed, students' complaints would be dismissed and that he would face no formal discipline. USC drops complaints, won't discipline ...