Editing Sextus Empiricus (section)

== Writings ==
[[Diogenes Laërtius]]<ref>[[Diogenes Laërtius]] '' Lives of Eminent Philosophers'' "Life of Timon" Book IX Chapter 12 Section 116 [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D12]</ref> and the [[Suda]]<ref name="auto"/> report that Sextus Empiricus wrote ten books on Pyrrhonism. The Suda also says Sextus wrote a book ''Ethica''. Sextus Empiricus's three surviving works are the ''Outlines of Pyrrhonism'' ({{Lang|grc|Πυῤῥώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις}}, ''Pyrrhōneioi hypotypōseis'', thus commonly abbreviated ''PH''), and two distinct works preserved under the same title, ''Adversus Mathematicos'' ({{lang|grc|Πρὸς μαθηματικούς}}, ''Pros mathematikous'', commonly abbreviated "AM" or "M" and known as ''Against Those in the Disciplines,'' or ''Against the Mathematicians''). ''Adversus Mathematicos'' is incomplete as the text references parts that are not in the surviving text. ''Adversus Mathematicos'' also includes mentions of three other works which did not survive: 
* ''Medical Commentaries'' (AD I 202) 
* ''Empirical Commentaries'' (AM I 62)
* ''Commentaries on the Soul'' which includes a discussion of the Pythagoreans' metaphysical theory of numbers (AD IV 284) and shows that the soul is nothing (AM VI 55)<ref>Machuca, Diego ''Sextus Empiricus : his outlook, works, and legacy'' 2008 p. 35 [https://philarchive.org/archive/MACSEH]</ref>

The surviving first six books of ''Adversus Mathematicos'' are commonly known as ''Against the Professors''. Each book also has a traditional title;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/|title=Sextus Empiricus|author=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|access-date=29 May 2015}}</ref> although none of these titles except ''Pros mathematikous'' and ''Pyrrhōneioi hypotypōseis'' are found in the manuscripts. 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Book
! English title
! Greek title
|-
|I
| Against the Grammarians
| Πρὸς γραμματικούς / Pros grammatikous
|-
|II
| Against the Rhetoricians
| Πρὸς ῥητορικούς / Pros rhetorikous
|-
|III
| Against the Geometers
| Πρὸς γεωμετρικούς / Pros geometrikous
|-
|IV
| Against the Arithmeticians
| Πρὸς ἀριθμητικούς / Pros arithmetikous
|-
|V
| Against the Astrologers
| Πρὸς ἀστρολόγους / Pros astrologous
|-
|VI
| Against the Musicians
| Πρὸς μουσικούς / Pros mousikous
|}

''Adversus Mathematicos'' ''I–VI'' is sometimes distinguished from ''Adversus Mathematicos'' ''VII–XI'' by using another title, ''Against the Dogmatists'' ({{lang|grc|Πρὸς δογματικούς}}, ''Pros dogmatikous'') and then the remaining books are numbered as I–II, III–IV, and V, despite the fact that it is commonly inferred that what we have is just part of a larger work whose beginning is missing and it is unknown how much of the total work has been lost. The supposed general title of this partially lost work is ''Skeptical Treatises''' ({{Lang|grc|Σκεπτικὰ Ὑπομνήματα}}/''Skeptika Hypomnēmata'').<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwpZVuylPgYC&q=Skeptical+Treatises%27&pg=PA303|title=A Companion to Socrates|author=Sara Ahbel-Rappe |author2=[[Rachana Kamtekar]] |year=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-9260-6}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Book
! English title
! Greek title
|-
|VII–VIII
| Against the Logicians
| Πρὸς λογικούς / Pros logikous
|-
|IX–X
| Against the Physicists
| Πρὸς φυσικούς / Pros Physikous
|-
|XI
| Against the Ethicists
| Πρὸς ἠθικούς / Pros Ethikous
|}