The question of about our possibilities to know something has vexed philosophers since Antiquity and is still debated in our times. Both sceptics, who were pessimistic about our epistemic outlook, and anti-sceptics, who sought to defend their optimism concerning our possibilities to know, have come up with increasingly sophisticated arguments and strategies over the last two millennia. Based on The First International Conference on Scepticism at the University of Hamburg, organised by the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in 2017, the present volume gathers a great variety of studies about selected sceptical considerations and anti-sceptical arguments to be found in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thought from 300 BC until now.

Giuseppe Veltri, Racheli Haliva and Stephan Schmid, Hamburg University, Germany, Emidio Spinelli, University of Rome, Italy.