Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004105331
The sceptical challenge known as the "problem of the criterion" is one of the major issues in the history of epistemology. This volume provides its first comprehensive study, in a span of time that goes from Sextus Empiricus to Quine.
Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004247246
Can knowledge provide its own justification? This sceptical challenge - known as the problem of the criterion - is one of the major issues in the history of epistemology, and this volume provides its first comprehensive study, in a span of time that goes from Sextus Empiricus to Quine. After an essential introduction to the notions of knowledge and of philosophy of knowledge, the book provides a detailed reconstruction of the history of the problem. There follows a conceptual analysis of its logical features, and a comparative examination of a phenomenology of solutions that have been suggested in the course of the history of philosophy in order to overcome it, from Descartes to Popper. In this context, an indirect approach to the problem of the criterion is defended as the most successful strategy against the sceptical challenge.
Author : Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691183430
Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring its own solution. He then puts forward solutions to both problems. To that end, he offers a new reading of Wittgenstein's account of the structure of rational evaluation and demonstrates how this provides an elegant solution to one aspect of the skeptical problem. Pritchard also revisits the epistemological disjunctivist proposal that he developed in previous work and shows how it can effectively handle the other aspect of the problem. Finally, he argues that these two antiskeptical positions, while superficially in tension with each other, are not only compatible but also mutually supporting. The result is a comprehensive and distinctive resolution to the problem of radical skepticism, one that challenges many assumptions in contemporary epistemology.
Author : Thomas Nail
Publisher : EUP
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474487924
Describes a new, systematic process philosophy of science and technology focused on the agency and mobility of objects.
Author : Han Thomas Adriaenssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107181623
The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.
Author : Keith DeRose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Skepticism: Contemporary Reader brings together the most important recent contributions to the discussion of skepticism. Covering major approaches to the skeptical problem, it features essays by Anthony Brueckner, Keith DeRose, Fred Dretske, Graeme Forbes, Christopher Hill, David Lewis, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam, Ernest Sosa, Gail Stine, Barry Stroud, Peter Unger, and Ted Warfield.
Author : Franco Trabattoni
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9462700591
An Innovating approach to Plato’s philosophy Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato’s philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature – and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research –, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.
Author : Barry Stroud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 1984-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198247613
He author argues that the sceptical thesis is motivated by a persistent philosophical problem that calls the very possibility of knowledge about the external world into question, and that the sceptical thesis is the only acceptable answer to this problem as traditionally posed.
Author : Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199557918
Duncan Pritchard offers an account of perceptual knowledge, arguing that it is paradigmatically constituted by true belief that enjoys rational support which is reflectively accessible to the agent. This resolves the issue between intermalism and externalism, and poses a radical challenge to contemporary epistemology.
Author : Michael Huemer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742512535
In opposition to both skeptics and representationalists, Huemer (philosophy, U. of Colorado, Boulder) presents a theory of perceptual awareness, according to which perception gives us direct awareness of real objects and non-inferential knowledge of the properties of these objects. He responds to the major arguments for skepticism, including the infinite regress argument, the problem of the criterion, the brain in the vat, and the impossibility of verification. c. Book News Inc.
