Escape from Scepticism
Author | : Christopher Derrick |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0898708486 |
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Author | : Christopher Derrick |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0898708486 |
Author | : Peter David Klein |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780816609987 |
Philosophers have traditionally used two strategies to refute the sceptical that empirical knowledge is not possible because our beliefs cannot be adequately justified. One strategy rejects the sceptics? position because it conflicts with the supposedly.
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Dafydd Stuttard |
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Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Skepticism |
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Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2005-06-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199282135 |
In epistemology the nagging voice of the sceptic has always been present. Over the last thirty years or so philosophers have thought of several promising ways to counter the radical sceptic: for instance, facts about the reliability of our cognitive processes, principles determining which possibilities must be ruled out in order to have knowledge, and principles regarding the context-sensitivity of knowledge attributions. In this entertaining and provocative book, Bryan Frances presents a new argument template for generating new kinds of radical scepticism, ones that hold even if all the clever anti-sceptical fixes defeat the traditional sceptic. Not only is the argument schema novel, but the sceptical consequences are entirely unexpected. Although the new sceptic concludes that we don't know that fire engines are red, that we sometimes have pains in our knees, or even that we believe that fire engines are red or that knees sometimes throb, he admits that we know millions of exotic truths such as the fact that black holes exist. You can know about the existence of black holes, but not about the colour of your shirt or even about what you believe regarding the colour of your shirt. The new sceptical arguments proceed in the usual way (here's a sceptical hypothesis; you can't neutralize it, you have to be able to neutralize it to know P; so you don't know P), but the sceptical hypotheses plugged into it are 'real live' scientific-philosophical hypotheses often thought to be actually true, such as error theories about belief, colour, pain location, and character traits. Frances investigates the questions, 'Under what conditions do we need to rule out these error theories in order to know things inconsistent with them?' and 'Can we rule them out?' Particular attention is paid to recent methods used to counter the traditional sceptic. Sharp, witty, and fun to read, Scepticism Comes Alive will be highly provocative for anyone interested in knowledge and its limits.
Author | : Thomas Fry |
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Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 187? |
Genre | : Skepticism |
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Author | : Jonathan Barnes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2007-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521043878 |
The topic of this book is the major argument-forms of the Greek sceptic, Sextus Empiricus, who lived and wrote in the second century AD. The author gives a lucid explanation and analysis of these forms, both as historically important phenomena and as philosophically significant arguments.
Author | : Donald C. Ainslie |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019106419X |
David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume's True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise, his deepest engagement with sceptical arguments. Hume notes there that, while reason shows that we ought not to believe the verdicts of reason or the senses, we do so nonetheless. Donald C. Ainslie argues that Hume uses our reactions to the sceptical arguments as evidence in favour of his model of the mind. If we were self-conscious subjects, superintending our rational and sensory beliefs, nothing should stop us from embracing the sceptical conclusions. But instead our minds are bundles of perceptions with our beliefs being generated, not by reflective assent, but by the imagination's association of ideas. We are not forced into the sceptical quagmire. Nonetheless, we can reflect and philosophy uses this capacity to question whether we should believe our instinctive rational and sensory verdicts. It turns out that we cannot answer this question because the reflective investigation of the mind interferes with the associative processes involved in reason and sensation. We thus must accept our rational and sensory capacities without being able to vindicate or undermine them philosophically. Hume's True Scepticism addresses Hume's theory of representation; his criticisms of Locke, Descartes, and other predecessors; his account of the imagination; his understanding of perceptions and sensory belief; and his bundle theory of the mind and his later rejection of it.
Author | : Alfred Hodder |
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Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : Gianni Paganini |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401701318 |
This collection of articles (the Vercelli conference proceedings) places the theme of scepticism within its philosophical tradition. It explores the English philosophical thinkers, the French context, as well as major Italian figures and Spanish culture. It pays special attention to the relationships between history of philosophical ideas and the problems rising from the history of sciences (medicine, physics, linguistics, historical scholarship) in the 17th and the18th centuries.