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Introduction to Skepticism Timeline Game

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Summoning Knowledge...

About This Challenge

Introducing our timeline game, a fun and interactive way to test your knowledge of historical events and their order. This game is a great way to learn about the importance of chronology and how events are interconnected, making it a perfect introduction to the concept of skepticism.

  • Players will have to place events in their correct chronological order
  • Test your knowledge of history and see how well you know the sequence of events
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  • c. 360 BC: Pyrrho of Elis introduces Pyrrhonism, a form of skepticism in ancient Greece
  • c. 200 AD: Sextus Empiricus writes 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism', a key text on skepticism
  • c. 1580: Medieval philosopher Michel de Montaigne popularizes skepticism in his essays
  • 1641: Rene Descartes introduces methodological skepticism in 'Meditations on First Philosophy'
  • 1748: David Hume publishes 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', a key work on skepticism
  • 1781: Immanuel Kant responds to skepticism in 'Critique of Pure Reason'
  • 1886: Friedrich Nietzsche criticizes skepticism in 'Beyond Good and Evil'
  • 1969: Ludwig Wittgenstein explores skepticism in 'On Certainty'
  • 1970s: Donald Davidson challenges skepticism with his coherentist theory of truth
  • 1984: Barry Stroud publishes 'The Significance of Philosophical Skepticism'
  • 1979: Richard Rorty critiques skepticism in 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature'
  • 1993: Susan Haack develops a response to skepticism in 'Evidence and Inquiry'
  • 1995: Keith DeRose explores contextualism in 'Solving the Skeptical Problem'
  • 1981: Hilary Putnam discusses skepticism in 'Reason, Truth, and History'
  • 1991: Michael Williams examines skepticism in 'Unnatural Doubts'
  • 1981: Robert Nozick presents his response to skepticism in 'Philosophical Explanations'
  • 1925: G.E. Moore introduces the concept of 'common sense' as a response to skepticism
  • 1986: Alvin Goldman proposes a reliabilist response to skepticism in 'Epistemology and Cognition'
  • 2007: Ernest Sosa develops a virtue epistemology in response to skepticism
  • 2000: Timothy Williamson defends a knowledge-first approach to skepticism in 'Knowledge and Its Limits'

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