Hegesinus of Pergamon

Hegesinus of Pergamon (Greek: Ἡγησίνους, translit. Hēgēsínous), was an Academic Skeptic philosopher from Pergamon. He was the successor of Evander and the immediate predecessor of Carneades as the leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy, and served for a period around 160 BC.[1] Nothing else is known about him.

Notes

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, iv. 60; Cicero, Academica, ii. 6.

References

K. Algra, J. Barnes, J. Mansfeld, M. Schofield, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Pages 32–33. Cambridge University Press. (2005).
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Ancient

Old

Middle	Arcesilaus Diocles of Cnidus Lacydes Telecles and Evander Hegesinus
New	Carneades Hagnon of Tarsus Metrodorus of Stratonicea Clitomachus Charmadas Aeschines of Neapolis Philo of Larissa Cicero Dio of Alexandria

Middle Platonists

Academy	Plutarch of Athens Asclepigenia Hierocles Syrianus Hermias Aedesia Proclus Marinus Isidore Ammonius Hermiae Asclepiodotus Hegias Zenodotus Agapius Damascius Simplicius Priscian John Philoponus Olympiodorus David the Invincible Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Medieval

Modern

Florentine Academy	Plethon Marsilio Ficino Cristoforo Landino Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Contemporary

Analytic	Gottlob Frege G. E. Moore Kurt Gödel Alonzo Church Roderick Chisholm Michael Dummett W. V. O. Quine David Kaplan Saul Kripke Alvin Plantinga Peter van Inwagen Nicholas Wolterstorff Crispin Wright Edward N. Zalta
Continental	Henri Bergson Edmund Husserl Roman Ingarden Leo Strauss

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