Price of Doubt

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Nathan Klappentext Are any of our beliefs justified? Are they rational? The skeptic thinks that our epistemic justifications are undeserved. Nicholas Nathan confronts the skeptic and questions the value of his argument. Skeptical arguments are against justified and rational belief as well as for ignorance. Nathan argues that the truth value of trivial arguments are a matter of indifference. He tests this conjecture with a varied collection of counterexamples: arguments for ignorance, neo-Cartesian and infinite regress arguments, and also more critically with arguments against justified and rational belief. Zusammenfassung This important contribution to the problem of scepticism offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. It questions the value of the sceptic's argument and provides a potential remedy to anti-sceptical epistemology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements, Introduction, I Arguments for ignorance and the negation test, II Demonic arguments, III Regressive arguments, IV Evidence-or-acquaintance arguments, V Anti-idealism, VI Arguments against justified belief, VII From rational action to rational belief, VIII Arguments against rational belief, IX The affirmation test, Appendix: Semantic objections to demonic arguments, Notes, Works cited, Index

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Nicholas, N. M. L. Nathan, Nathan Nicholas, Nicholas Nathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 24.08.2000
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780415234153
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23415-3
• Pages: 192
• Series: International Library of Philo; International Library of Philosophy; International Library of Philo
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, rational action theory, philosophical scepticism, justification of belief, advanced epistemological argument analysis, anti-idealism arguments, semantic objections