The nature of Sextan suspension: metacognition or affection of the mind?

What kind of mental state is suspension, according to Sextus Empiricus? Recently, this question has been addressed by attributing to Sextus a metacognitive account of suspension (Dunphy Citation2023). Roughly, this means that, for Sextus, suspension constitutively involves a particular attitude – namely, a higher-order belief about one’s own epistemic standing. This reading clashes with the standard view, on which Sextan suspension is not a distinctive doxastic attitude. In this paper I challenge that revisionary interpretation and use it as a springboard to argue that Sextan suspension should instead be understood as a kind of affective state.