Sextus Empiricus
2nd-century Roman philosopher and physician
- Lived
- 200–300
- Country
- Ancient Rome
Updated September 2026
About Sextus Empiricus
Sextus Empiricus 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.
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Sources: book lists and dates from Wikidata and Open Library, ratings from Open Library readers. Last updated September 2026.