Putting Skeptics in Their Place - The Nature of Skeptical Arguments Their Role in Philosophical

Klappentext This book examines the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco argues that a number of historically prominent skeptical arguments make no obvious mistake! and therefore cannot be easily dismissed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry; 2. Skepticism about the world: part I - reconstructions; 3. Skepticism about the world: part II - dismissive responses; 4. Skepticism about the world: part III - dualism, realism and representationalism; 5. The argument from an infinite regress of reasons; 6. Hume's skepticism about unobserved matters of fact; 7. Agent reliabilism; 8. Agent reliabilism and the relevant sense of 'relevant possibility'; 9. Moral and religious epistemology; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: John Greco, John (Fordham University Greco
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2000
• EAN: 9780521772631
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77263-1
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works