Scepticism and Perceptual Justification

How can experience provide knowledge, or even justified belief, about the objective world outside our minds? This volume presents original essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists, who show how philosophical progress on foundational issues can improve our understanding of, and suggest a solution to, this famous sceptical question.

About the author

Dylan Dodd has held postdoctoral fellowships at Syracuse University and the Universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Elia Zardini has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of St Andrews, Aberdeen and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is currently a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Barcelona and an Associate Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Summary

How can experience provide knowledge, or even justified belief, about the objective world outside our minds? This volume presents original essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists, who show how philosophical progress on foundational issues can improve our understanding of, and suggest a solution to, this famous sceptical question.

Additional text

A volume of excellent new essays

Product details

• Authors: Dylan Dodd, Dylan (University of Alaska Dodd, Dylan Zardini Dodd
• Assisted by: Dylan Dodd (Editor), Dylan (University of Alaska Dodd (Editor), Dodd Dylan (Editor), Elia Zardini (Editor), Elia (University of Barcelona and University of Aberdeen) Zardini (Editor), Zardini Elia (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780199658343
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965834-3
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Perception, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge