Philosophy & Research

Philosophy as a practice in the face of uncertainty.

My research examines skepticism not only as a problem concerning the limits of knowledge, but as a way of understanding doubt, restlessness, experience, judgment and action. Montaigne stands at the center of this inquiry.

Skepticism Montaigne Experience Judgment Uncertainty Action

The starting point

Can skepticism be a practical philosophy?

My work begins from this question. Rather than treating skepticism only as a theory about what we can or cannot know, I am interested in examining what it does to the ways in which we live, judge, choose and act.

This shifts the problem. Doubt ceases to be merely a defect to be corrected and becomes a condition with which reason must learn to work. Philosophical inquiry thus becomes a practice of revision, attention to experience and resistance to claims of definitive certainty.

The question is not how to eliminate uncertainty, but how to prevent the absence of guarantees from becoming paralysis or dogmatism.

Central question

How can we continue thinking and acting when no foundation can remove every risk from action?

This question runs through my reading of ancient and modern skepticism and organizes four recurring axes of the research.

DoubtNot only as a crisis, but as a discipline of inquiry.

RestlessnessA condition that can persist without necessarily preventing practical life.

JudgmentFormed through experience and always exposed to the possibility of revision.

ActionPossible even when no ultimate certainty guarantees its effects.

Research axes

Four problems held in tension.

The research does not seek to dissolve these tensions, but to understand how they can coexist within a philosophy that remains connected to practical life.

01 · Skepticism & Montaigne

From the exercise of doubt to a way of life

Modern skepticism as a practice of inquiry and a way of life, with Montaigne’s Essays as a central reference.

02 · Doubt & Restlessness

Living without resolving everything

Doubt not only as a crisis to be overcome, but as part of a rationality that must act without completely eliminating indeterminacy.

03 · Experience & Judgment

Learning through encounter with reality

The formation of judgment through experience, the revision of one’s beliefs, and confrontation with what resists our expectations.

04 · Uncertainty & Action

Deciding without an ultimate foundation

How to choose and act when no guarantee can remove all risk, contingency or possibility of revision from action.

Intellectual path

From ancient skepticism to modern restlessness.

My work seeks to understand continuities and shifts between ancient and modern forms of skepticism without reducing them to an identity. I am especially interested in what happens when suspension, doubt and experience cease to be merely argumentative operations and begin to touch ways of life.

Montaigne stands at the center, but the inquiry requires a broader dialogue with the skeptical tradition and contemporary readings of modern skepticism.

Sextus Empiricus

The Pyrrhonian tradition provides a decisive vocabulary for thinking about inquiry, suspension of judgment and the relation between skepticism and practical life.

Montaigne

The Essays stand at the center of the research: experience, judgment, instability and ordinary life become philosophical material.

Modernity

The skeptical problem changes as it comes to coexist with new conceptions of subjectivity, rationality, certainty and action.

Contemporary readings

The research engages with contemporary interpretations that reconsider modern skepticism as practical philosophy, without reducing its effects to a technique or a promise of serenity.

Concepts in development

Formulations emerging from the research.

They are not presented here as slogans or isolated novelties, but as conceptual articulations that acquire meaning within the broader argument of the thesis.

Exemplarity without universality

A singular experience can be communicated and become relevant to others without having to become a universal rule, mandatory model or guarantee of reproduction.