How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism by Peter Klein - Article Example

The author introduces the possibility of arguments that don’t depend upon circular logic and through this discussion defines a Pyrrhonian Skeptic as one who neither believes nor disbelieves that we have knowledge. This is distinguished from Academic Skepticism in that Academic Skeptics are said to believe we cannot have any knowledge or justified beliefs. In attempting to illustrate how the Pyrrhonian Skeptic is different from the Academic, the author gets into the complicated analysis of argument structures, illustrating how the Academic skeptic argues that no knowledge can be had and why the author disagrees with this statement.

At the same time, he doesn’t try to prove that knowledge can be had either, simply that if one cannot know for certain that knowledge can’t be known, then it also cannot be known for certain that it can. The argument seems strongly complicated by the detail and equational statements.