{"id":13520,"date":"2026-01-16T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/?post_type=publikation&#038;p=13520"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:43:40","slug":"suspension-and-scepticism","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/publikation\/suspension-and-scepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension and Scepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent debates in epistemology have assumed a\u00a0<em>positive<\/em>\u00a0conception of suspension of judgement, according to which suspending requires the presence of a distinctive mental state, either a sui generis indecision-representing attitude or a higher-order belief about one\u2019s doxastic situation. The paper challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that sceptical traditions, in particular Pyrrhonian and Cartesian scepticism, operate with a\u00a0<em>privative<\/em>\u00a0conception of suspension: scepticism does not suggest adopting a positive mental attitude but simply to refrain from both belief and disbelief (given suitable cognitive preconditions). We show that the Pyrrhonian strategy of equipollence and Descartes\u2019 method of doubt do not aim for suspension positively conceived. We tentatively suggest that privative suspension is thus of primary significance for epistemology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freitag, Wolfgang; Zinke, Alexandra (2026): \u201eSuspension and Scepticism\u201c. In: History of Philosophy &amp; Logical Analysis, OnlineFirst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":13521,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"publikation_cat":[98],"disciplines":[71],"series":[],"class_list":["post-13520","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publikation_cat-zeitschriftenartikel","disciplines-philosophie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/13520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publikation_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation_cat?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13520"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}