Price of Doubt, the

Zusatztext Knackiges Gemüse und duftendes Obst ein grünes Kochbuch mit verführerischenRezepten für alle Gelegenheiten und für jeden Geschmack! bunte Salate undaparte Gratins! köstliche Fruchtspeisen und delikate Sorbets: Speisen!die keinen Wunsch offen lassen. Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Nathan Klappentext The Price of Doubt is an important contribution to the problem of scepticism. It offers a new standard for the appraisal of philosophical arguments. Nicholas Nathan confronts the sceptic. He questions the value of his argument and the knowledge it contains and provides a potential remedy to the frustrations of anti-sceptical epistemology. 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

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• Autori: N. M. L. Nathan, Nicholas Nathan, Nathan Nicholas
• Editore: Routledge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780415408097
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40809-7
• Pagine: 188
• Serie: International Library of Philosophy; International Library of Philo; International Library of Philosophy
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy