Skepticism and Knowledge Timeline Game
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Put the following events in chronological order.
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Temporal Tangle
Can you place the key events in the correct order?
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Reconstruct the key facts from this lesson.
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About This Challenge
Are you a skeptic when it comes to testing your knowledge? Put your skills to the test with this timeline game that challenges you to place events in their correct chronological order.
- Events are presented to you, and it’s up to you to determine the correct sequence in which they occurred.
- As you progress through the game, the events become more challenging and require a keen eye for detail and historical context.
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- c. 365-275 BCE: Pyrrho of Elis introduces Pyrrhonian skepticism
- c. 315-241 BCE: Academic skepticism is founded by Plato's student Arcesilaus
- 2nd century CE: Sextus Empiricus writes 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism'
- 11th century CE: Medieval skepticism emerges in Islamic philosophy with Al-Ghazali's 'The Incoherence of the Philosophers'
- 16th century CE: Renaissance skepticism is prominent in the works of Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- 1748: David Hume publishes 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'
- 1781: Immanuel Kant responds to skepticism in 'Critique of Pure Reason'
- early 19th century: G.W.F. Hegel incorporates skepticism into his dialectical method
- late 19th century: Charles Sanders Peirce introduces pragmatic skepticism
- 1921: Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
- 1912: Bertrand Russell's 'The Problems of Philosophy' addresses skepticism
- 1962: Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' challenges traditional views of knowledge
- late 20th century: Richard Rorty advocates for a 'postmodern' skepticism
- 1993: Susan Haack develops 'foundherentism' as a response to skepticism
- 2002: Anthony Brueckner proposes 'global' skepticism as a thought experiment
- 2000s: Timothy Williamson defends 'knowledge-first' epistemology against skepticism
- present day: Skepticism continues to be a central issue in contemporary philosophy