Sextus Empiricus is a Philosophe, astronomer and Médecin empirical skeptic which probably lived in IIIe century a. J. - C. It was Greek, but we know neither perhaps where it was born (with Mytilène) nor where he was professor. We know on the other hand that he was chief of the school skeptic; he succeeded Ménodote de Nicomédie and its successor was Saturninus.

Sextus wrote works of medicine. There remain to us three works of philosophy:

• Πυῤῥώνειοι ὑποτύπωσεις ( Esquisses pyrrhoniennes ) which is a summary of the thought skeptic;
• two other works joined together under the same title: Against the mathematicians :
• one against sciences
• the other against the dogmatic philosophers

References

Translations:

• Against the professors (bilingual Greek-French)
• Drafts pyrrhoniennes
• Hypotyposes pyrrhoniennes

Analyzes:

• On Against professors de Sextus Empiricus

Sources

• Sextus Empiricus, Drafts pyrrhoniennes and Against the professors ;
• , Delivers IX.
• Brigitte Pérez-Jean, “the technical analogy in the criteriology of Sextus Empiricus”, in Ars and Ratio, sciences, arts and trades in hellenistic and Roman philosophy , Latomus , n°273, 2003, p. 259-273.
• Sexti Empirici Adversus mathematicos, hoc is, adversus eos which profitentur disciplined , Gentiano Herveto Aurelio interprets, Parisiis, Mr. Javenem, 1569 (Vicifons).