Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus
Born	Second century AD
Died	Late 2nd century or early 3rd century possibly in Alexandria or Rome
Philosophical work
Era	Hellenistic philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Pyrrhonism Empiric school
Main interests	Skepticism
Notable works	Outlines of Pyrrhonism Against the Dogmatists Against the Professors

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Sextus Empiricus (Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός, Sextos Empeirikos; fl. mid-late 2nd century AD) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician with Roman citizenship. His philosophical works are the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman Pyrrhonism, and because of the arguments they contain against the other Hellenistic philosophies, they are also a major source of information about those philosophies.