@article{Philosophy:2003,
      recid = {2003},
      author = {Eichorn, Roger Edward},
      title = {Philosophy and Everyday Life: Thompson Clarke and the  Legacy of Skepticism},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2019-08},
      pages = {360},
      abstract = {Philosophy and Everyday Life is the first monograph in  English on the thought of Thompson Clarke (1928–2012).  The  essay has both (a) exegetical and (b) systematic ambitions.   (a) It provides the first close reading in the literature  of Clarke’s seminal paper “The Legacy of Skepticism,” the  brilliance of which is matched by its near-impenetrable  density.  I defend an interpretation of “Legacy” that puts  Clarke at odds with perhaps his greatest admirer, Barry  Stroud, whose work can be read as a multifaceted  exploration of ideas and problems inspired by Clarke.   Reading “Legacy” through the lens of Stroud suggests what I  call ‘the Dissolutionist Reading,’ which views Clarke as  attempting to ‘dissolve’ the skeptical challenge.  Against  that, I propose what I call ‘the Pyrrhonian Reading,’ which  develops Myles Burnyeat’s suggestion that Michael Frede’s  interpretation of Pyrrhonism is ‘Clarkean.’  On the  Pyrrhonian Reading, Clarke’s reflections on skepticism end  not with dissolution, but with suspension of judgment.  (b)  I contend, further, that traditional epistemology still has  a great deal to learn from both Clarke and Pyrrhonism.  On  the Pyrrhonian Reading, Clarke is best understood as  arguing that the legacy of (modern, Cartesian) skepticism  is (ancient, Pyrrhonian) skepticism.  This reorientation  involves divorcing global skeptical problematics from the  dogmatic assumptions of Cartesianism, locating them instead  in the ancient conceptual framework that I refer to as ‘the  metaphysical appearance–reality distinction.’},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2003},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2003},
}