Casey Perin
                                Professor, Philosophy
School of Humanities
                        School of Humanities
                            Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2001
                        
                
            
                    Email: cperin@uci.edu
                    
            
                
                    University of California, Irvine
                    
73 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
                
                73 Humanities Instructional Building
Mail Code: 4555
Irvine, CA 92697
                    Research Interests
                    
                    
                
                            Ancient philosophy, philosophy of action, moral psychology, 17th & 18th century philosophy
                    
                
                    Publications
                    
                        
            
                                BOOKS
The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism (Oxford University Press, 2010)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"Making Sense of Arcesilaus," forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.
"Knowledge, Stability, and Belief in the 'Meno'," Ancient Philosophy 32 (2012): 15-34.
"Scepticism and Belief," in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, ed. R. Bett (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
"Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Scepticism," in A Companion to Descartes, ed. J.Broughton and J. Carriero (Blackwell, 2007)
"Substantial Universals in Aristotle's Categories," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 (2007): 124-144.
"Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Search for Truth," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30 (2006): 337-360.
"Stoic Epistemology and the Limits of Externalism," Ancient Philosophy 25 (2005): 383-401.
"Academic Arguments for the Indiscernibility Thesis," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005) 493-517.
                The Demands of Reason: An Essay on Pyrrhonian Scepticism (Oxford University Press, 2010)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"Making Sense of Arcesilaus," forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.
"Knowledge, Stability, and Belief in the 'Meno'," Ancient Philosophy 32 (2012): 15-34.
"Scepticism and Belief," in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism, ed. R. Bett (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
"Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Scepticism," in A Companion to Descartes, ed. J.Broughton and J. Carriero (Blackwell, 2007)
"Substantial Universals in Aristotle's Categories," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 (2007): 124-144.
"Pyrrhonian Scepticism and the Search for Truth," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 30 (2006): 337-360.
"Stoic Epistemology and the Limits of Externalism," Ancient Philosophy 25 (2005): 383-401.
"Academic Arguments for the Indiscernibility Thesis," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005) 493-517.
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                    Last updated
                    
10/23/2025
            10/23/2025