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Author | : Jonathan Barnes |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199577538 |
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Proof, Knowledge, and Scepticism is the third volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy. It contains twenty-two pieces on epistemological matters, some of them revised, and one or two which appear for the first time in English. Anyone with an interest in ancient philosophy will find them enriching and amusing.
Author | : Gilbert Harman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 131743689X |
Download Skepticism and the Definition of Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1990. This study argues that scepticism is an intelligible view and that the issue scepticism raises is whether or not certain sceptical hypotheses are as plausible as the ordinary views we accept. It discusses psychological concepts, definitions of knowledge, belief and hypothetic inference (inference to the best explanation). Starting from ‘Is skepticism a problem for epistemology’, the book takes us through the argument for the possibility of scepticism, including looking at sense data and considering memory and perception.
Author | : Jennifer Nagel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019966126X |
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What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these have existed since ancient times, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers the central problems and paradoxes in the theory of knowledge and draws attention to the ways in which philosophers and theorists have responded to them. By exploring the relationship between knowledge and truth, and considering the problem of scepticism, Nagel introduces a series of influential historical and contemporary theories of knowledge, incorporating methods from logic, linguistics, and psychology, using a number of everyday examples to demonstrate the key issues and debates. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : Alan Musgrave |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1993-02-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521436250 |
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Can we know anything for certain? Dogmatists think we can, sceptics think we cannot, and epistemology is the great debate between them. Some dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of the senses. Sceptics object that the senses are not an adequate basis for certain knowledge. Other dogmatists seek certainty in the deliverances of pure reason. Sceptics object that rational self-evidence is no guarantee of truth. This book is an introductory and historically-based survey of the debate, siding for the most part with scepticism to show that the desire to vanquish it has often led to doctrines of idealism or anti-realism. Scepticism, science and common sense produce another view, fallibilism or critical rationalism: although we can have little or no certain knowledge, as the sceptics maintain, we can and do have plenty of conjectural knowledge. Fallibilism incorporates an uncompromising realism about perception, science, and the nature of truth.
Author | : A.C. Grayling |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441154361 |
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A subject of particular resonance today when belief — religious and otherwise — can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style.
Author | : Paul K. Moser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521423632 |
Download Knowledge and Evidence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Philosophers have sought to define knowledge since the time of Plato. This inquiry outlines a theory of rational belief by challenging prominent skeptical claims that we have no justified beliefs about the external world.
Author | : Charles Landesman |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002-05-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631213550 |
Download Skepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents and analyzes the most important arguments in the history of Western philosophy's skeptical tradition. It demonstrates that, although powerful, these arguments are quite limited and fail to prove their core assertion that knowledge is beyond our reach. Argues that skepticism is mistaken and that knowledge is possible Dissects the problems of realism and the philosophical doubts about the accuracy of the senses Explores the ancient argument against a criterion of knowledge, Descartes' skeptical arguments, and skeptical arguments applied to inductive inference and self-knowledge Uses Moore's proof of an external world and the reliabilist conception of knowledge to illustrate that the traditional skeptical arguments fail to meet their mark.
Author | : Barry Stroud |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1984-07-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0198247613 |
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He author argues that the sceptical thesis is motivated by a persistent philosophical problem that calls the very possibility of knowledge about the external world into question, and that the sceptical thesis is the only acceptable answer to this problem as traditionally posed.
Author | : Graciela De Pierris |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191026166 |
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Graciela De Pierris presents a novel interpretation of the relationship between skepticism and naturalism in Hume's epistemology, and a new appraisal of Hume's place within early modern thought. Whereas a dominant trend in recent Hume scholarship maintains that there are no skeptical arguments concerning causation and induction in Book I, Part III of the Treatise, Graciela De Pierris presents a detailed reading of the skeptical argument she finds there and how this argument initiates a train of skeptical reasoning that begins in Part III and culminates in Part IV. This reasoning is framed by Hume's version of the modern theory of ideas developed by Descartes and Locke. The skeptical implications of this theory, however, do not arise, as in traditional interpretations of Hume's skepticism, from the 'veil of perception.' They arise from Hume's elaboration of a presentational-phenomenological model of ultimate evidence, according to which there is always a justificatory gap between what is or has been immediately presented to the mind and any ideas that go beyond it. This happens, paradigmatically, in the causal-inductive inference, and, as De Pierris argues, in demonstrative inference as well. Yet, in spite of his firm commitment to radical skepticism, Hume also accepts the naturalistic standpoint of science and common life, and he does so, on the novel interpretation presented here, because of an equally firm commitment to Newtonian science in general and the Newtonian inductive method in particular. Hume defends the Newtonian method (against the mechanical philosophy) while simultaneously rejecting all attempts (including those of the Newtonians) to find a place for the supernatural within our understanding of nature.
Author | : Douglas Odegard |
Publisher | : Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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