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Damian Caluori

The Scepticism of Francisco Sanchez

The Renaissance sceptic and medical doctor Francisco Sanchez has been rather unduly neglected in scholarly work on Renaissance scepticism. In this paper I discuss his scepticism against the background of the ancient distinction between Academic and Pyrrhonian scepticism. I argue that Sanchez was a Pyrrhonist rather than, as has been claimed in recent years, a mitigated Academic sceptic. In keeping with this I shall also try to show that Sanchez was crucially influenced by the ancient medical school of empiricism, a school closely allied with Pyrrhonism.

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0003-9101
Volume: 89, 03/2007
Pages: 30 - 46

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