Φαινόμενα contra Νοούμενα: Sextus Empiricus, the Notion of Place and the Pyrrhonian Strategy at Work

While analyzing the prickly question of any alleged and dogmatically established notion of space (topos), as it is presented and discussed by Sextus Empiricus especially in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism (=PH I 119-135), this paper will consider from the beginning his entire critical attack as a clear case-study of a more general polemical attitude and at the same time of his genuine, more ‘parochial’ Pyrrhonian point of view. Accordingly, the main lines of the following analysis will try to highlight both the general ‘doxographical’ trustworthiness of Sextus’s reconstruction (along with the most relevant features of his specific dialectical strategy) and his final approach toward a possible and coherent sceptical outlook (along with its ethical consequences).