[Buddha-l] The arrow: its removal and examination

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 12:28, curt wrote:

> A few tangential suggestions: Richard Popkin's masterful "The History Of
> Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle", offers very little in terms of an
> introduction to logic, per se, but it does something that is also
> important - it explains the genealogy of scepticism in modern thought.

Also good are Myles Burnyeat's "Doubt and Dogmatism" and "The Sceptical 
Tradition" and Peter Unger's "Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism."

I found Burnyeat's work very helpful back in the days when I was trying to 
show that Nagarjuna and Dignaga were Indian Buddhist philosophers whose 
agendas were quite similar to those of some of the Hellenistic Skeptics (as I 
prefer to spell the word). I failed to convince anyone. People were just too 
damn skeptical.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes