TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.’
AD  - University of Chicago
AU  - Eichorn, Roger Edward
DA  - 2019-08
DO  - 10.6082/uchicago.2003
DO  - doi
ED  - James Conant
ED  - David Finkelstein
ED  - Anubav Vasudevan
ID  - 2003
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Pyrrhonism
KW  - Skepticism
L1  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2003/files/Eichorn_uchicago_0330D_14966.pdf
L2  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2003/files/Eichorn_uchicago_0330D_14966.pdf
L4  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2003/files/Eichorn_uchicago_0330D_14966.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2003/files/Eichorn_uchicago_0330D_14966.pdf
N2  - 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.’
PB  - University of Chicago
PY  - 2019-08
T1  - Philosophy and Everyday Life: Thompson Clarke and the Legacy of Skepticism
TI  - Philosophy and Everyday Life: Thompson Clarke and the Legacy of Skepticism
UR  - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2003/files/Eichorn_uchicago_0330D_14966.pdf
Y1  - 2019-08
ER  -