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Philosophical Skepticism
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Author : Charles Landesman
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2002-10-22
Philosophical Skepticism written by Charles Landesman and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-22 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophical Skepticism provides a selection of texts drawn from the skeptical tradition of Western philosophy as well as texts written by opponents of skepticism. Taken together with the historical introduction by Landesman and Meeks, these texts clearly illustrate the profound influence that skeptical stances have had on the nature of philosophical inquiry. Draws a selection of texts from the skeptical tradition of Western philosophy as well as texts written by opponents of skepticism. Spans centuries of skeptical and anti-skeptical arguments, from Socrates to Rorty. Includes essays by Plato, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Russell, Quine, Nagel, and many others. Provides a solid foundation for further study.
Skepticism From Antiquity To The Present
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Author : Diego Machuca
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-25
Skepticism From Antiquity To The Present written by Diego Machuca and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Philosophy categories.
Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind. By exploring each of the distinct traditions and providing expert insights, this extensive reference work: - covers major thinkers such as Sextus Empiricus, Cicero, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. - acknowledges the influence of ancient skeptical traditions on later philosophy and explains why it is still a fertile topic of inquiry among today's philosophers and historians of philosophy. - analyzes various forms of skepticism including Pyrrhonian, Academic, religious, moral, and neo-Pyrrhonian. - addresses issues in contemporary epistemology and indicates new directions of study. Skepticism, a driving force in the history of philosophy, remains at the center of debates in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an essential point of reference for any student, researcher, or practitioner of philosophy, presenting a systematic and historical survey of this core philosophical topic.
Knowledge And Skepticism
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Author : Marjorie Clay
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Knowledge And Skepticism written by Marjorie Clay and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents the characteristic of philosophical writing in the theory of knowledge covering the major themes: skepticism, externalism, reliabilism, probability, and justification. It also analyses epistemology from both historical and contemporary perspective.
Skepticism
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Author : Annalisa Coliva
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-02-09
Skepticism written by Annalisa Coliva and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
Skepticism is one of the perennial problems of philosophy: from antiquity, to the early modern period of Descartes and Hume, and right through to the present day. It remains a fundamental and widely studied topic and, as Annalisa Coliva and Duncan Pritchard show in Skepticism, it presents us with a paradox with important ramifications not only for epistemology but also for many other core areas of philosophy. This book provides a thorough grounding in contemporary debates about skepticism, exploring the following key topics: the core skeptical arguments, with a particular focus on Cartesian and Humean radical skepticism the epistemic principles that are held to underlie skeptical arguments, such as the Closure and Underdetermination principles the content externalism of Putnam, Davidson, and Chalmers, and how it might help us respond to radical skepticism the epistemic externalism/internalism distinction and how it relates to the skeptical problematic contextualism in epistemology and its anti-skeptical import the various interpretations of a Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology the viability of epistemological disjunctivism, including whether it can be combined with hinge epistemology as part of a dual response to radical skepticism liberal and conservative responses to the Humean skeptical paradox. Both authors are prominent figures who work on skepticism, and so one novelty of the book is that it provides an insight into their own contrasting responses to this philosophical difficulty. With the addition of annotated further reading and a glossary, this is an ideal starting point for anyone studying the philosophy of skepticism, along with students of epistemology, metaphysics, and contemporary analytic philosophy.
The Oxford Handbook Of Skepticism
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Author : John Greco
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
The Oxford Handbook Of Skepticism written by John Greco and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Philosophy categories.
In the history of philosophical thought, few themes loom as large as skepticism. Skepticism has been the most visible and important part of debates about knowledge. Skepticism at its most basic questions our cognitive achievements, challenges our ability to obtain reliable knowledge; casting doubt on our attempts to seek and understand the truth about everything from ethics, to other minds, religious belief, and even the underlying structure of matter and reality. Since Descartes, the defense of knowledge against skepticism has been one of the primary tasks not just of epistemology but philosophy itself. The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism features twenty-six newly commissioned chapters by top figures in the field. Part One contains articles explaining important kinds of skeptical reasoning. Part Two focuses on responses to skeptical arguments. Part Three concentrates on important contemporary issues revolving around skepticism. As the first volume of its kind, the articles make significant contributions to the debate on skepticism.
Joseph Conrad And The Fictions Of Skepticism
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Author : Mark Wollaeger
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1990-11-01
Joseph Conrad And The Fictions Of Skepticism written by Mark Wollaeger and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
"You want more scepticism at the very foundation of your work. Scepticism, the tonic of minds, the tonic of life, the agent of truth - the way of art and salvation." Joseph Conrad wrote these words to John Galsworthy in 1901, and this study argues that Conrad's skepticism forms the basis of his most important works, participating in a tradition of philosophical skepticism that extends from Descartes to the present. Conrad's epistemological and moral skepticism - expressed, forestalled, mitigated, and suppressed - provides the terms for the author's rethinking of the peculiar relation between philosophy and literary form in Conrad's writing and, more broadly, for reconsidering what it means to call any novel 'philosophical'. Among the issues freshly argued are Conrad's thematics of coercion, isolation, and betrayal; the complicated relations among author, narrator, and character; and the logic of Conradian romance, comedy, and tragedy. The author also offers a new way of conceptualizing the shape of Conrad's career, especially the 'decline' evidenced in the later fiction. The uniqueness of Conrad's multifarious literary and cultural inheritance makes it difficult to locate him securely in the dominant tradition of the British novel. A philosophical approach to Conrad, however, reveals links to other novelists - notably Hardy, Forster, and Woolf - all of whom share in the increasing philosophical burden of the modern novel by enacting the very philosophical issues that are discussed within their pages. Conrad's interest as a skeptic is heightened by the degree to which he resists the insights proffered by his own skepticism. The first chapter introduces the idea of the Conradian 'shelter', and the next two use Schopenhauer to show how the language of metaphysical speculation in Tales of Unrest and 'Heart of Darkness' spills over into a religious impulse that resists the disintegrating effect of Conrad's skepticism. The author then turns to Hume to model the authorial skepticism that in Lord Jim contests the continuing visionary strain of the earlier fiction and Descartes to analyze the ways in which Romantic vision is more stringently chastened by irony in Nostromo and The Secret Agent. The concluding chapter touches on several late novels before examining how competing models of political agency in Conrad's last great fiction of skepticism, Under Western Eyes, situate it somewhere between ideology critique and a mystified account of the exigencies of individual consciousness.
Skepticism
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Author : Keith DeRose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Skepticism written by Keith DeRose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
1 Introduction: Responding To Skepticism Keith DeRose 1 The Argument by Skeptical Hypothesis 2 "Aw, Come On!" 3 Moore's Response 4 The Response from Semantic Externalism 5 Responses from Epistemic Externalism 6 Relevant Alternatives and Denying Closure 7 Contextualist Responses 8 Concessive Responses Part One The Response From Semantic Externalism 2 Brains in a Vat Hilary Putnam 3 Semantic Answers to Skepticism Anthony Brueckner 4 Realism and Skepticism: Brains in a Vat Revisited Graeme Forbes 5 A Priori Knowledge of the World: Knowing the World by Knowing Our Minds Ted A. Warfield Part Two Responses From Epistemic Externalism 6 Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity Ernest Sosa 7 Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism Christopher S. Hill Part Three Relevant Alternatives And Denying Closure 8 Epistemic Operators Fred Dretske 9 Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure Gail Stine 10 Selections from Philosophical Explanations Robert Nozick Part Four Contextualist Responses 11 Solving the Skeptical Problem Keith DeRose 12 Elusive Knowledge David Lewis Part Five Concessive Responses 13 Selections from Philosophical Relativity Peter Unger The Hypothesis of Philosophical Relativity Aspects of Semantic Relativity A Relativistic Approach to Some Philosophical Problems 14 Selection from The View from Nowhere Thomas Nagel 1 Skepticism 2 Antiskepticism 3 Self-Transcendence 4 Evolutionary Epistemology 5 Rationalism 6 Double Vision 15 Scepticism, 'Externalism, ' and the Goal of Inquiry Barry Stroud Bibliography.
A Study Of Professional Skepticism
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Author : Carmen Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-31
A Study Of Professional Skepticism written by Carmen Olsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with Business & Economics categories.
This book describes how auditors exercise different levels of professional skepticism and how they are exposed to different types of affective information on clients’ behavior. Based on the author’s empirical study of 56 auditors, it shows that auditors’ skepticism and affective reactions towards a client interact to influence their appraisal of valuation problems. It also suggests that the effects of auditors’ affective reactions on their skeptical judgments depend on the level of risk in the audit engagement.
Species Intelligibilis 1 Classical Roots And Medieval Discussions
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Author : Leen Spruit
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1994
Species Intelligibilis 1 Classical Roots And Medieval Discussions written by Leen Spruit and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Philosophy categories.
The main purpose of this book is to offer a comprehensive historical analysis of the discussions on a crucial problem for the Medieval theory of knowledge: the formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge.
Anonymous Skeptics
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Author : Lance Ashdown
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2002
Anonymous Skeptics written by Lance Ashdown and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
At its deepest, philosophical skepticism questions the sense of language. Skepticism manifests itself in different forms, three of the most powerful being logical, external-world, and religious skepticism. How has philosophy of religion addressed these challenges? The attempt to answer this question leads Lance Ashdown to a consideration of three prominent contemporary philosophers of religion: Richard Swinburne, John Hick, and William Alston. The author shows that these philosophers are indeed open to the criticisms of the three types of skepticism mentioned above. According to Ashdown, they are rightly to be considered as 'anonymous skeptics'. Readers familiar with the work of the theologian Karl Rahner will recognize an echo of his famous doctrine that non-Christian religious believers are really 'anonymous Christians', i.e., Christian believers who do not recognize themselves as such. In a similar way, the philosophers of religion under consideration are skeptics who most certainly would not identify themselves as such. They are anonymous skeptics in the sense that their epistemologies create the very conditions that allow for the severe and, on their own terms, unanswerable challenges of skepticism. At the same time, none of these philosophers thinks that skeptical objections pose a devastating or unanswerable threat to their epistemologies. For example, each of them is an avowed believer in God and is fully aware of the challenge of religious skepticism, yet none believes that skepticism need cause a rational Christian to abandon his or her beliefs. Nevertheless, each of the three philosophers adheres to a philosophical theory that remains open to the devastating critique of Philo in David Hume's essay Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion - who argues at his deepest that talk of God is meaningless.