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Robert Greystones on Certainty and Skepticism: Selections from His Works (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi)

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em Robert Greystones on Certainty and Skepticism:
Selections from His Works em is a continuation of the volume
previously published by Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, em
Robert Greystones on the Freedom of the Will: Selections from
His Commentary on the Sentences em (edited by Mark
Henninger, with RobertAndrews and Jennifer Ottman, 2017).
In the course of preparation of the first volume, startling
information arose concerning the nature and extent of
Greystones' skepticism. Following draft editions of a number of
Greystones' em Sentences em commentary questions, the
most relevant five questions wereselected for editing and
translation.Greystones is in the tradition of Nicholas of
Autrecourt, William Crathorn, em Monachus Niger em (the
Black Monk), Nicholas Aston, and John Went, but the earliest
of these figures. Building upon the 69th proposition of the
Condemnation of 1277, Greystones concludes that God's
unlimited power must lead toa radical skepticism about human
knowledge. We cannot be certain whether we are in this life or
the afterlife, in a body or not. We cannot be certain about the
existence of any external object. We have no certain
knowledge of cause and effect, the existence of substances, or
of any contingent event.Like Descartes, Greystones held that
we can be certain about our own existence ( em ego sum em
). But preempting Descartes' appeal to a beneficent,
nondeceptive God, Greystones says: God does not deceive.
But you deceive yourself if you insist on believing that
something exists when you know that it mightnot! You know
that God can intervene at any instant, and thus that you can
never completely trust your senses. Greystones' skepticism is
strikingly significant in light of the later historical development
of philosophy.Recent researchers on medieval skepticism

such as Henrik Lagerlund, Dominik Perler, and Jos é Luis
Bermúdez show no awareness of Greystones. Indeed,
Bermúdez claims that 'the resources were not available in the
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to entertain those ...
skepticalworries that were identified as distinctive of Cartesian
skepticism.' This edition of Greystones should prompt not just
a footnote to, but a rewriting of, the history of philosophy. em
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