Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: sources and transmission; the nature of scepticism; precursors; Pyrrho and the Socratic tradition; the scepticism of the Middle Academy; Carneades and the later sceptical Academy; secession - the "Fourth Academy" and Aenesidemus; the scepticism of the early Empire. Part 2 The ten modes of scepticism: the modes of Agrippa; the criterion, signs and proof; causes and explanation; scepticism in the medical schools; sceptical physics and metaphysics; the liberal arts; sceptical ethics; the sceptical attitude; the sceptic way of life.