Skepticism and the Ancient Skeptics

The father of modern scepticism was descartes, who proposed radical doubt as a stepping stone towards reaching conclusions that could not be doubted. In his meditations, descartes subjects all his beliefs to sceptical attack. He also proposes a scenario not unlike the matrix, in which a malicious demon is filling him with false beliefs. After decorte, skepticism has usually taken roughly this form. We consider beliefs of various kinds and ask whether they can be doubted, and if so, what that means about the status of those beliefs. For instance, you may think you know your cooking dinner or jogging, but in fact, you cannot know such things,. since, just maybe you are